Neat Beecaster Professional Desktop USB Microphone

The Beecaster is an intelligently designed desktop microphone that's perfect for podcasting and recording spoken word. It can aslo work well as an instrument mic for home studios where a desk mounted mic is the most appropriate choice

The Mic may have a sense of style that some think is outrageous, but underneath the bold black and yellow, you have a really durable and heavy duty microphone that will last a long time.

Flexible Desktop Design

The Beecaster's Flexible desktop design features a weighty desktop base with a robust boom arm and a swivel capsule so that you can easily get that perfect mic placement wherever you need. It's even got a built in pop shield so you don't need to faff around with the placement of an external shield. The Pop shield will take out all the excessive plosives from your speech so you'll get a smooth and detailed take without spikes in your audio.

Control at your fingertips

The Beecaster also features some handy controls so that you can get the best recording in any situation. You can select from 4 different sound pickup patterns to help you get the cleanest recording, whether you're recording by yourself or want to pick up all the voices in a group chat. Choose between mono, stereo, wide stereo and focused stereo.

Other controls on the mic include a gain knob so that you can set the correct levels, a mute switch and a volume knob  that you can use to control the on-board headphone amp and monitor the sound at source.

Here's what Neat say about the Beecaster

This bee flies from the hive to the pod-in particular podcasting, and the world of professional podcasts and narration. Quality audio is essential to create a buzz with podcasts, and thanks to four proprietary, internally shockmounted 25 mm medium diaphragm capsules, the Beecaster delivers. To cover all possible needs, Beecaster can shape your sound with four switchable sound pickup patterns-mono, stereo, wide stereo, and focused stereo.

The Beecaster may fly solo, but brings a lot of supplies: fully integrated headphone monitoring with volume control, mic gain control, mute button, adjustable boom arm with swivel capsule for optimum positioning, built-in pop filter, custom USB cable designed for digital audio, and the option to generate high-resolution audio as well as standard CD-quality audio. There's simply no better, or more convenient, way to bring vibrant audio to podcasts.

Microphone Technical Specifications

• Transducer Type: Proprietary 24 mm Condenser Capsule, internally shock-mounted
• Polar Pattern: Selectable-Mono (cardioid), Stereo (X/Y), Wide Stereo (Blumlein), or Focused Stereo (M/S)
• Frequency Response: 20 Hz - 20 kHz
• Sample Rate: 96 kHz
• Bit Depth: 24 bit
• Sensitivity: 16 mV/Pa at 1kHz (1 Pa=94 dB SPL)
• Maximum SPL: 128 dB SPL (0.5% THD)
• S/N Ratio: 98 dB-A (IEC 651)
• Noise Level: 14 dB-A (IEC 651)
• Dynamic Range: 98 dB (@ 2.5k ohms)
• Power Requirement: 5 V USB

Headphone Amplifier Technical Specifications

• Impedance: 16 ohms
• Power Output (RMS): 100 mW
• THD: 0.05%
• Frequency Response: 20 Hz - 22 kHz
• S/N Ratio: 90 dB