Behringer ECM8000

rookie opinion

Good for money, you can find on behringer site calibration file

Used for recording

I bought a Beyerdynamic MM1 for calibration, so I didn't do any calibration with these units, as they don't come with calibration files, but I tried to use them as ambient recording devices in a loud crowd, and they work quite well. It helps with the mix fullness, and are flat response as advertised, but they are quiet, and if you need to amplify them alot, some noise can be heard.

good for rough measurments, excellent for all you throw at it.

i think it is very similar to superlux ecm999, noise is not that high as some online reviews would make you think, it does what it says and comes in nice plastic case. slight bump in freq response is not that critical so it can be used for rough measurments. usual behringer low price and more than ok quality, just dont expect same results as 1000$ calibrated measurment mic..

A+

Super cheap, amazing mic and comes with a very nice study carrying box.

does the job

got it for Sonarworks. it works

Value for money. Use a calibration file too!

A very good Mic

I´m a sound engineering and I use the ECM very often to make sound measurements. It is perfect for the price you pay, and it is very useful.

I recomend it

Decent Measurement Microphone

A very solid build and does the job. There is a calibration file online that has been cross referenced with a similar competitors microphone, it's worth trying this calibration file out.

Top choice for recording noise' from neighbors

Great microphone for the price. I'm not an audio expert or anything - I bought the mic to record noise from my neighbors as proof. It does the job well enough. I chose measuring omni condenser mic because I wanted the recording to sound as natural as possible - so you can hear the room like if you were there. That's not possible due to low sensitivity but at least it still picks up some background sounds that serve as a comparison to the neighbor's noise and the recorded sound is neutral (you need to fix your headphones with eq though to hear it as neutral - for Android you can use wavelet).

One big issue with this mic is its self-noise. It's too big to be able to record "silence" in the room and it isn't sensitive enough to record reverberations of room sounds (I think that's what is meant when you say "you can hear the silence"). However, for what I need it for it does well. The self-noise is normal for this kind of microphone (measuring), so I read.

This is my first microphone (apart from gaming sets) but the sensitivity seems low. You read everywhere how condenser mics pick *everything*. Well, surprise - they don't or at least not well enough. I paired this microphone with UM2 (cheap product.... I know) and I need to crank up the gain all the way to the max (with recording level at 54 in Windows) to get decent enough volume of the noise in the room. I read online I should have set it up the other way around - windows recording volume at 100 and then increasing gain. According to a review from a youtuber Kraus Behringer um2 has a good gain so if you want to record something silent you may need a different mic.

One small tip, make sure your windows settings match those in the recording software. At first I had default windows settings (16bit, 44100Hz) with 48000Hz in Audacity then over the weeks of usage I stumbled upon the windows settings and changed then to 48000Hz so they both matched. Noise dropped quite a bit. Not of the microphone but overall recording. Much cleaner and smoother sound.

Good, but not for everything.

Good microphone for standard relative measurements in roomacoustics.

Not good for low noise applications due to quite loud self noise.

Also not good for multichannel measurements. Sensitivities differ a lot from mic to mic.

But the price is just crazy to me, so overall a good Mic.