Rode NT-USB Reviews

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7 years ago

An amazing budget microphone

The Rode NT-USB is a great microphone for beginners - it has great voice clarity and low background noise (of course not as good as an XLR microphone- but for USB its great).

It comes with a 6m USB Type-B cable, a carrying bag, a pop filter and desk stand.

The microphone has a nice metal casing, and a purple LED to indicate its powered and ready. It also offers a 3.5mm headphone jack to hear yourself with no delay.

The microphone is of great build quality from Rode, I will be defiantly be buying from them again.

7 years ago

Perfect !

I have been using this microphone for 2 years now and I really enjoy it !

I use it both for Twitch live sessions and music recording and it is excellent for both situations.

I would definitively recommend this microphone !

8 years ago

Bought this microphone for use at my desktop PC during online calls. Everyone that hears me talk through it immediately noticed a huge increase in sound quality. It's quite literally the best microphone I've used: very well built (metal alloy body), very good sound quality, extremely easy to install (literally just plug it into your PC and it works with all of its features).

Regarding the features, it has a no-latency "talk-back" effect, meaning that it plays the sound that it picks up right back into a pair of connected headphones so that you can hear yourself speak.

Additionally, it's so sensitive that, when turned up, you can hear sounds via your talk-back headphone jack that you don't normally hear without it. It picks up sound from all around you with great accuracy. For me, this means that I can just leave it on the office desk far away from me and it will still hear me just fine.

Exceptional product. I strongly recommend it.

8 years ago

A microphone of solid quality, at a mostly reasonable price

I've used the Rode NT-USB to play and record my singing and guitar playing at the same time, and for my first ever condenser microphone it has been a delight.

PROS:

+ The quality of sound is very good, with high pitched sounds not causing any distortion if you've got your audio settings in check

+ Microphone has an audio jack built in to it, so that you can listen to your own voice through a headset, which is practical for those learning to sing

+ Quite literally plug and play, with it only taking as long to get working as your computer takes to recognize it

+ I've had no complaints about background noise when used to converse with VOIP (Voice Over IP, voice chat - e.g. Skype)

+ Microphone's build is very robust, it being primarily made out of metal, yet comfortably weighed

CONS:

- The plastic stand is not quite heavy enough to support the microphone in most positions

- Microphone doesn't have its own gain and volume knobs, which limits the amount of adjustments you can make to its sound.

Overall the Rode NT-USB is a microphone of decent quality, at a relatively affordable price.

8 years ago

Brilliant

Sound quality is very good, look on youtube for a demonstration.

Very well built

There is a large plastic nut that holds the mic to the base/boom arm, i feel this could have been better quality as a rubber ring inside it got dislodged once (but only once). it was easily repaired.

Over all, would definitely recommend.

9 years ago

Versatility and Quality

I have this microphone for 2 years and i love it! Great cable length, comes with a beautiful windshield (pop filter), desk stank and nice pouch. It?s USB, means if you have an Apple USB to lightning adaptor you can record directly on an iPad or iPhone too. There is a monitor out (with volume) to have a perfect feedback without any delay. It?s solid built and an excellent sound quality that is expected from Rode.

9 years ago

Brilliant!

Performs much better that the price tag might suggest! This little beauty rivals the audio quality of the best mics around. I can't fault it!

10 years ago

Solid for the price

Very decent USB mic

11 years ago

Rode Test!!!!

I have been using studio mics for years so when I saw the price of this I refused to believe that it was any good. How wrong was I? Buy this mic today and never look back. It is so easy to set up, in fact there is no 'setting up'! Take it out of the box, plug it in and away you go!!!!