FDUCE SL40 Dynamic Microphone for Podcasting, Gaming, Live Streaming & Recording, Built-in Headphone Output, LED Mute Button, All Metal USB/XLR, Voice-Isolating Technology (White)

I was hesitant to purchase as the brand isn’t huge, but months on, I honestly really love this mic. Sound quality is good, gain is adjustable. People can understand me easily. Never any problems. Plug and play.It looks quite sleek and modern, complements my setup well. I also love that the mute button is simple and easy. No flashing, just a bright blue LED when live and bright red when muted. Changes with a single click.The stand is very easy to set up. High quality, robust, and well-built.Uses USB-C, unlike some microphones. Who actually wants mini USB? USB-C ports are just sturdier, which is a bonus.Had a Blue Yeti for years before this and I’d pick this one every time.Also bought from Amazon Warehouse to save £15. It’s as good as brand new. Not a single mark.For the price, this is a high quality microphone and a great entry-level one. Obviously it’s not studio quality, but no USB mic is at this price. This is as good as it gets in the world of USB mics.For a good quality studio/professional quality, you’ll need an XLR mic and an audio interface (adapter). That’s at least triple the cost of this.

I bought this microphone to pair with my Focusrite Scarlett Solo Gen4 as my first ever XLR.For the price, it looks great, it doesn't feel of cheap quality giving you a premium feel at a less premium price, it's a balanced weight for my mic arm and isn't difficult to move and overall have had next to no issues in regards to the microphone quality.I have a loud household consisting of general house noises such as a dog, and hoovers etc. and this mic manages to overlay my voice over this background noise and supress it allowing my friends and teammates in-game and voice channels to only have to deal with my voice coming through.It's a great bit of kit, seems like it's durable enough to last you a few years maybe more and great overall quality considering I came from having a Hyper X Quadcast.Less money, more quality!

Excellent overall, highly recommend, the sound is very good with no background or static noise even at the highest gain input signal level from my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2.The build quality of the microphone and the boom arm exceeded my expectations.Couldn't have asked for more.

I do a lot of work as a radio presenter/DJ, and this mic was bought to replace a much loved, much used, and very ancient AKG. It connected fine, but initially was extremely boomy - I had to do a lot of post-recording work to try and sort out the EQ, not always with the greatest of success. Once I also replaced my even more ancient mixer, I have managed to set the EQ so that the sound is as it should be for my voice.It's a decent, budget microphone, for the price I really can't complain, but if you're buying one please be aware that you'll maybe have to do more tweaking to your EQ levels than you might with a more expensive, possibly better balanced mic. The only other potential criticism is that the foam windshield is pretty thin, but it's easily replaced with a thicker one, and that is a fairly common issue with all mics in my experience.

Such an amazing microphone, it’s very podcast sounding, I use this for streaming and it’s amazing, no background noise I would 100% recommend. It hasn’t let me down once. It’s a budget microphone but makes you sound like your speaking into a £300 microphone.

It works and it looks good and the microphone quality sound amazing.

Great quality either end of the mic and a beautiful first start into streaming

The build quality is very good and it looks very good and like a Shure M7. There were 4 reviews when I ordered mine, and all were 5*'s.I did send a pre-sales query to FDUCE on their social media, but didn't receive a response and then a post sales message to them on Amazon, but my questions are still unanswered, but possibly because of the Chinese New Year. So, response from their Customer services from my experience is poor.I have tried the microphone with a Asmuse USB Audio interface (XLR), a Behringer mixer (XLR) and direct to my PC via the USB cable. These are the issues I have found and queried with FDUCE. The volume plus/minus volume on the microphone does not work in USB. I see someone else reported this fault in their review, but still gave a 5* (?) However, the gain control on the microphone does work in USB and so does the mute, but how do you know when you have pressed the plus button enough to have reached maximum gain as there is no indication of the level you have reached? The Instruction Manual states that you must switch phantom power on for XLR connections. I think this is a mistake. With no phantom power there is sound and with phantom power on you get noise in the monitoring headphones, which I assume must be from the voltage. This was with both the USB audio interface XLR and my mixer XLR. The interface you can switch phantom power on and off, but you cannot switch it off on the mixer. The foam windshield does not cut our plosives as a reviewer on You Tube stated. You need to buy a better one like the Shure A7WS windshield or use a round pop filter in front of it. I tried a Shure SM58 foam windshield which was much better than the FDUCE, although slightly too short. I await FDUCE to respond to the aforementioned issues.Whilst waiting for the FDUCE response I have done some test recordings using USB and XLR. I found USB was better using the XLR of my USB Audio Interface with phantom power turned off. I could not use it with my mixer because I cannot turn the XLR phantom power off. I have queried this with Behringer. The USB recording that I made had too much bass and the quality is not good/clear enough for the programmes I present on internet radio. I could possibly improve this in the recording software (Audacity), but I don’t want that extra effort. I bought this as a back up to my Rode NT1A, which has a nice clear neutral sound, but this is the opposite, plus you need to spend another £40+ to get a decent foam windshield to eliminate the plosives. I also wanted a dual XLR/USB microphone at a cheaper price than a Shure M7. I guess you get what you pay for!Sorry, but I cannot recommend this microphone and after reading the other reviews this was both a surprise and a disappointment. I am likely to be sending this back before the return’s deadline, but I will first wait to see what response, if any, I receive from the manufacturer.Update 30/01/2023 after receiving a response from the seller Aufero EU:They confirmed that this microphone does not use phantom power. Hopefully the user manual will be corrected soon. If your mixer or USB audio interface does not have a phantom power on/off switch for the XLR input(s) then don't buy this for the reason I mentioned . Most USB audio interfaces do have a switch, but some mixers, like my Behringer Pro Mixer DX2000USB, you cannot turn the phantom power off to the XLR inputs. A way round this may be to use the 1/4" jack inputs, but you will need a different cable (XLR female to 1/4" jack or an adapter to convert XLR male to 1/4" jack).To know when you have reached to maximum gain you will have to listen or look at the levels in your audio software until there is no more obvious change.They confirmed the surface button controls on the microphone only work in USB, which I knew, but as already stated by me and another reviewer, the plus/minus buttons do not work for the headphone monitoring volume, only for the gain control, so we must have both received microphones with this fault.With regards to foam windshield not preventing plosives, the Seller stated that they don't know my use scenario, therefore cannot make a accurate judgement, but a review on You Tube confirmed my findings and the reviewer recommended that the FDUCE one should be replaced by the Shure windshield that I mentioned above.The Seller has now given a detailed response, and the delay was as I suspected, because of the Chinese New Year. I have increased the rating by 1 star, but I am still unable to recommend this microphone for the reasons stated.