I have been a few days the SKEREI SK-882 condenser microphone in the test and want to let you be part of it, of course.
The microphone is strangely in a counter-clockwise rotated original cardboard box that has ever raised questions with me.
First, however, first to the microphone himself, who wants to can at this point look at my video, it had to be a little bit shortened.
The Review was spoken to give the SKEREI SK-882, so you can make yourself a picture of the sound.
The microphone is made entirely of metal, processing fine.
The accessories are plentiful, but there is no reduction screw which should be ordered in any case to do so because otherwise you can fix it with a 5/8 inch thread the enclosed elastic suspension only on tripods.
The spider that came by the way of plastic
Is also included a foam pop filter which does a good job, but he destroyed the cool look of the microphone.
A small metal pop filter is also with this, which is the capsule simply drangeklippt neck and fixed with the screw located on the capsule neck. ... Looks mean horny from but unfortunately this has virtually no effect pop screen ... too bad!
There is also a 3 meter XLR to 3.5mm jack cable here for which this is, however, will probably only know the manufacturer, because the SKEREI SK-882 requires phantom power, which in no way provides my microphone input on the PC and thus the microphone can not be operated directly on my PC. So rather just yet also order an XLR Male / Female cable along with it.
A direct operation using the cable was not possible on my PC.
I have the microphone connected to my mixer with an XLR cable, also because it did not work, only when I turned on the phantom power, I could use the mic fully.
On the enclosed information sheet you can read about ... apropo sheet, a manual, there is not, but you will find a small cards in Chinese and the data sheet mentioned in Chinese and English. If you look closely, there is a third leaflets in English, this is can be seen that one should send in case of problems the microphone to the sender / supplier from Germany but directly to China, who shall be borne by the cost of postage is not mentioned anywhere. I do not know what does a package to Hong Kong / China, but I would imagine that exceed the value of the cost.
So once again to understand, although we will despatch from Germany, you have no German access to advice.
so now a word to the box again. As mentioned initially, the micro was delivered to me in a link around rotated original carton, I naturally looked for reasons why you do something.
If one wanted to perhaps save packaging material? ... Well probably not :) So I richtigrum turned the box and I looked at him more closely and this has struck me, which is present on the cardboard NO CE mark and therefore could be a reason why the the box has made. I believe that one micro actually not likely to sell here without this character, but I'm not really sure.
The micro itself sounds pretty good, but it has an audible internal noise if you want it to, for example, use for Let's Play's, you will not hear the noise. If you want the mic but for miking instruments with low volume or other quiet sound sources use, you will hear the background noise significantly.
The information on this are different, on the product description here is something of 18dB-A and in the attached data sheet is a bit of 14 dB-A.
The indication of the characteristic raises with me questions, indicated kidney as characteristic, but I can talk equally well from either side the microphone and that's not typical for a kidney characteristics. I would rather have typed on an 8.
For me, the question arises, how much stars I forgive for SKEREI- SK882. That's not quite that simple.
The price is very good
The build quality is good
The sound is also good with reservations
The accessories are plentiful at first glance
This is offset by:
no CE symbol
no manual
no Reduziergewinde
a cable that can not be used
no German Contact
partly. different or misrepresentation
All in all, I therefore awarded only 2 out of 5 stars, to my mind, unfortunately outweigh the disadvantages, as well as the extremely low price may not change much. Sometimes it all depends on the 2. view :)
Who still has questions about the microphone that can find me on YouTube under SunFinCol, as the video for SKEREI SK-882
Many Greetings
Sunfincol
