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Samson GM1U G-Track USB Microphone with Interface

The G-Track is a total solution capable of taking you from your musical inspiration to your finished tracks. Samson's G-Track is the world's first USB condenser microphone with a built-in audio interface and mixer, allowing simultaneous input of vocals and guitar, bass, or keyboard while also providing monitoring through an on board headphone output. Learn More...

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10

Individual User Ratings

Overall:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10

Feature:
This mic definitely rates a 10 simply because of its unique features. there is absolutely no other mic with this many features. (The sE Electronics USB2200a comes close but their mic has no line/guitar input. They do, however, have USB noise supressers that eliminate the inherent USB 5v noise).

Quality:
Through the noise, the frequency response for the mic is okay. It lacks depth in the lower frequencies - almost as if a bass rolloff switch has been left on somewhere.

Value:
I guess it's okay - as a curiosity item or toy. Absolutely not usable in a professional environment.

Desirability:
This mic needs to go back to the drawing board.

Sound:
Because this mic is so noisy (static & a high-pitched whine), it is unusable for anything othet than sound with high SPL's such as drums. It's useless for vocals, acoustic guitar, etc.

Ease of Use:
Piece of cake - if you remember what audio drivers your computer is using. I have Cubase/Nuendo/Sound Forge 9 so I use Asio4all as my main driver.

Support:
Can't report on support yet. If Samson makes drivers that can somehow "condition" the USB line so its quiet, then the G-Track is a winner

Overall:
This mic is actually not a recommended buy unless you're nly using it to specifically record instruments with loud SPL's like drums where you can turn down the mic's input and reduce the inherent USB noise.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10

Feature:
I absolutely hate the fact that when you record vocals on one track it records it solely panned to the left side of the track. Yes, welcome to Suck City. If this weren't the problem it would be an almost flawless mic. Of course you can fix this problem with any DAW program. It would of been cool if there were a mono option for recording vocals from the mic. Some features that save this mic from me returning it are the ability to connect your instrument and/or headphones directly to the mic. Awesome feature.

Quality:
The quality is good. It's a fairly heavy mic. If I were to hit it with a bat it might break. If I were to throw it at the wall it might not. Seemingly well built, sturdy. The volume knobs I think will be the the first to give.

Value:
I say it's worth it. The instrument in line and headphone connect really increase the value.

Desirability:
It looks really cool and professional looking. I fell for it's charm.

Sound:
Sounds pretty good. I rock pretty hard. I do a lot of yelping, screaming, and howling and the microphone seems to take it pretty well. My voice comes in actually pretty clearly without clipping which is pretty cool. Absolutely no self noise problems, that I heard that other USB mic's had. However, I don't like that you have to be really close for this to sound the way I would like it. I purchased a pop filter and a shockmount. Which I now feel might have been unnecessary purchases. I would get very close to the mic and pop as many P's as possible and I didn't get any sound pops. Unless your gonna be dancing with the mic in your hand and recording at the same time I don't think the shockmount is a must, which I purchased directly from Samson.

Ease of Use:
It's really easy to use.

Support:
I haven't called them yet.

Overall:
I purchased it for the better or for the worse and so far it's been for the better.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10

Feature:
recording of a guitar and other audio through inbuilt D/A converter is nice ....direct monitoring is excellent. 24 bit recording would hav been a big welcome.good solid construction.clip indicator is a good idea.Doesnt require a carry case all you need is a sponge wrap and you can keep this along in your laptop case ( I use a 15 inch bag for a 13 inch macbook so there is space for a senneheiser head phone and this mic alomg with miscellaneous things)

Quality:
seen better built mics but this one does the job for the money.so there is a little bit of compromise on all fine aspects.

Value:
great. a separate decent sound card and mic would have cost me around 250 euros atleast.

Desirability:
even you want this , trust me..........

Sound:
this captured my voice faithfully but with a bit of noise is added to it ,cannot keep the mic sensitivity to infinity as the noise is very high, mic sens knob should only be kep at 70 % becuase its sensitive to indirect sounds. with a mac book and ligic express running along with reason 4 in rewire mode there literally very light latency you can hear which will sound like a 11 millisecond delay doubler effect. which is cool. could have been more expressive in sound capturing...

Ease of Use:
plug and play with apple logic, and on pc too....what else would will you expect ?

Support:
dont need to call them.

Overall:
ease of use will let you use this broduct for long time.

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