UMIK-1 Omni-Directional USB Measurement Calibrated Microphone

I feel guilty admitting it but I planned on returning this mic after using it to set up Dirac on my ARCAM AVR. The microphone feel solid and well built with its metal housing, the stand it comes with also feels like its meant to last and not cheap plastic. I originally tried to use an Anthem MRX ARC mic to use with Dirac but that failed horribly. After using this I had no issues and the setup was smooth and easy.After using it to calibrate my AVR I decided to keep it! Awesome calibration microphone. I used it with a pair of SVS Ultra Evolution Bookshelf speakers and SVS 17 Ultra Evolution sub. Results make everything more harmonious. One of the best upgrades for calibrating your new AVR.

Purchased when they dropped the price. Works really well. Basically, plug and play with R.E.W(Room EQ Wizard)

I bought an Emotiva XMC-1 Processor about 7 months ago. Amongst that I have an svs ultra tower 7.1 surround system and an svspb4000 sub. Nice setup or so I thought. The mic that came with the from emotiva would give too many varying results and too many disappointing playback results especially way too light in the sub area almost every time. I decided to try the ECM8000 from Behringer becuz it was cheaper @ $55 instead of UMIK-1@ $100. The ECM800 $55, driver $45, phantom power $25 and last but not least hdmi $8 total of $133 dollars. The ecm8000 did a flat response, but again the sub was too lean until I went into Dirac and changed the sub settings which didn't sound the best. Not bad though. I was not happy with dirac so far. I could send all the extra sh#$t for the ecm8000 back except the mic. If anyone has an emotiva $2500 processor or higher price. Get the umik-1. The emotiva mic was way too sensitive so when it runs dirac it wants to turn the sub way lean. Tweaking it every calibration gets old but , I could get it humpin. Now the UMIK-1 was a whole new ball game. First calibration made adjustments to dirac. Im just used to do n that. Played some movies and music sounded good but, I wanted to play more. Went to dirac omg my file didn't save. 2 nights later I ran dirac again with the umik-1....same results again. I decided not to touch the sub section this time and just give a whirl Wow..what a world of a whirl it turned out to be. This mic is less sensitive so there for it needs the subs to be present and it is very much present. It picks up down to 8hz or so. It sounds like a real movie theater now. I missed all of this thunder and over all detail for what!!! Minidsp offers other sound correction programs and how to set up guides. I think it's a very nice touch for " just buying" their mic.

I am using this mic with Room Eq Wizard (REW) and miniDSP. REW allows me to test my loudspeakers and also correct for room effects. This calibrated mic is plug n play and integral to the whole process.

I got this to calibrate my dual subwoofers for my home theater with REW. There are a lot of tutorials on how to do this and this is the cheapest and most recommended microphone. The microphone is heavy and appears well made. The learning curve on how to use REW is steep but after reading forums and watching a few videos I was able to utilize this microphone well enough for it's intended purpose.

Super easy to set up, plug and play. Used this with REW to help set up a friend's home theater. Very accurate and no problems whatsoever.

No where could I find the USB specs for this. The unit does have a USBC port and plugs right into any iPhone 15 or 16 with a simple USBC cable. Using HouseCurve, it had more lower and upper bandwidth than the mic on my iPhone 16 Pro. I did notice that Airplay starts rolling off hard at 16khz.Something else I noticed was that the response seemed to have less compression that the built in mic. iPhone mic had dips in the same places as the UMIK, but the amplitude was much higher on the iphone.Overall the perfect product for my needs.

Works great. If using it for amp room correction, don't forget to download the configuration file