Confirm that the blue LED illuminates while the mic is connected to your computer. If the LED does not illuminate double check that the USB cable is fully connected to both the bottom of the microphone and the USB port of the computer or USB hub being used. If the blue LED illuminates, but the mic isn’t recording any sound, you’ll need to check the control panel or system preferences of your system to ensure that the microphone is set as your default/primary recording device.

This is not a problem with the USB-VOX itself. Delay is present in all USB recording devices. The additional step or hop of your CPU processing the already processed analog to digital conversion causes a little delay. To accommodate this delay you need to adjust your audio feed in your recording software by about half a second. Manual fine tuning is necessary for expected results.

Yes, our microphone is capable of picking up voices from a distance. However, you’ll need to turn up the gain in your preferred recording software settings as well as within your operating system’s recording volume settings. By turning up the gain or recording volume, you may also hear more ambient/room noise than you would with lower gain and volume settings recorded from a closer distance. For best results, we recommend being no more than 1ft away from the mic and adjusting volume and gain settings to your sound preferences.

Yes, this mic can be used for Skype and other types of video calls. However, please note that if audio quality does not seem desirable while using the microphone with Skype, it is most likely due to internet service provider or software limitations that are outside of the microphone’s control. This can be confirmed by testing the microphone with a basic recording program like Audacity and comparing the recording results to the audio quality during a video call.