A blind microphone comparison

Published on September 4, 2019; updated on April 23, 2020

Like many other podcasters, I like obsessing over different microphones and watching mic reviews. Unfortunately, most of these reviews are not blind, and so your impression is inevitably affected by how the microphone looks, what its price is, opinions you’ve heard about the mic etc.

So here’s a blind test of the three microphones that I currently own. Feel free to tell me both your subjective (which one you liked more) and objective (what type/price range/model you think these are) thoughts, and I’ll tell you what these microphones are.

Mic 1 Mic 2 Mic 3

Text credit: Daniel T. Baldassarre.

Here are some other blind microphone tests you may enjoy:

Masked mics series by Allen Williams
8-Mic Shootout With David Hooper by Chris Curran