[Supercardioid] Using a Canon C100 MkII for travel and hand held video. The built-in mic works well, but wanted something with more stereo separation. The MKE 440 with the fur windscreen works very well. Stereo separation is surprisingly good, and the pickup pattern is effective at suppressing out of picture sound. The fur windscreen and LF rolloff filter are quite effective at suppressing wind noise. The mic is very sensitive, so it picks up mechanical focus noise from some of the L Series lenses, but not from an 18-135 f?3.5-5.6 STM. Turns out this little lens is as sharp as the L Series 24-105 f/4.0 except at the outermost edges of the image in FHD that this camera produces. The MKE 440 is very well made with high quality materials. Very happy with it.

[End Address] Can’t beat it for the price. It sounds good, it’s built well, compact, and comes with everything. No idea how much abuse it could take, ... but it’s so cheap you should grab 2 or 3 to easily replace and keep it going.

[Supercardioid] I film often near a busy interstate, and my current stereo mic; the Azden SMX-30 picks up too much of that noise. The directional stereo helped reduce that noise by isolating my stereo to noises in front of my camera.


I also think the stereo sounds a bit better here than with the Azden mic, although the pure shotgun mic of the Azden isolates noise better at the cost of stereo.


The dead cat for the MKE 440 is just ok. I was still getting wind noise even with moderate wind. The dead cat for the Azden works much better. This might have more to do with the mic design of the MKE 440 than with the dead cat for it. Either way, wind reduction is much better on the Azden SMX-30.

[Black] As a doc filmmaker, I'm always looking to keep a low profile and small footprint. This mic is tiny, but captures excellent audio !!

[Plug-In Power] I researched for weeks looking for a small diaphragm condenser that would work well indoors as well as outdoors. Our primary use is for indoor dialogue (interviews, etc.). Wound up renting this Sanken mic for a day to test it out and immediately loved it. Bought it that day. The room we do most of our recordings in has some sound treatment and is fairly dead acoustically. The CS-M1 has a beautiful off-axis roll-off and tone and sounds very natural. Very little EQ needs to be done for our purposes. Has a little more top-end presence and no heavy bottom end. Great RF rejection and reportedly works well in high humidity settings. Super small and light. Very little handling noise. I love the supercardioid pattern which is perfect for our needs. Super quiet mic. Sounds beautiful. I will definitely be buying a second one when I get the $. No regrets.

[Supercardioid] I have been trying for a long time to find a good on-camera mic that suits my needs. This one is excellent. Most of what I do is filming live music. That means I need a good sounding mic, in this case stereo, with a high SPL level that allows for the loud impact of drums without distortion. This, with the mic level on the MKE 440 set to its lowest setting works great. I did have to buy an adapter cable (about $11), since my camera only has XLR inputs, but that was a very small added expense. The mic uses two AAA batteries, and has a very long life before requiring new ones. The mic attaches very securely via the cold shoe mount. I havent had occasion to use the fur windshield, but I can say that it fits very securely over the microphones.

[Supercardioid] This thing is so cute, and incredibly useful. I bought it as an on-camera mic for the Canon R5C, running into the Tascam CA-XLR2d preamp. It works great for that, on camera.

But recently, I’ve been taking it off the camera, with a longer XLR, and using it as a narration mic for recording myself in various locations around the studio for YouTube videos. It’s on a tiny little tripod, and the whole thing is so small and lightweight you can stick it anywhere without hassle.

It sounds “present” and “live” without any low-end mud whatsoever, and really comes alive when you get the room placement right. Especially be sure to take off that included foam windscreen when in a controlled studio environment for much more detailed top end.

[Supercardioid] I feel stupid for not having this mic much sooner. It sounds fantastic. Really full, clear and balanced. The overall rejection is amazing, you can shoot in a room with a busy street outside or construction and not hear it at all. Extremely happy and impressed.

I initially bought it because I want a shorter mic for my on camera shotgun; but now using this as our main microphone period.

[Mono] I echo everything that Patrik said about this mic. I have used many shotgun and cardioid mics over the past 20 years for all the work I’ve done as a sound mixer. Having transitioned into the documentary filmmaking realm, this is now my go to mic for not only boom pole use, but especially for on-camera use. The size and weight are perfect, and the sound quality is excellent. At this point, I can’t imagine using anything else.

[Supercardioid] This microphone is amazing and was a huge upgrade from what I had. I am using it to record our high school marching band and the recordings are so accurate and detailed, it’s near perfect. I record on top of press boxes in the open air most of the time where I have to deal with wind and, with the wind muff, it does a great job even without turning on the wind reduction. If there was one thing I wish it did better, it would be in the reproduction of the lower frequencies but that’s getting really picky.

I am using it on a Sony ZV-E10.