Antlion Audio ModMic Uni 2 Attachable Noise-Cancelling Microphone with Mute Switch, Compatible with PCs, Gaming Consoles, Handheld Devices, and More

I was mostly worried about the adhesive / magnet that hold the mod on to your headset. The magnet is weak enough that it's pretty much impossible to tear the adhesive off by accident, which is good. But because of this, the mic pops off a little too easily, but it's never been an issue. Working perfectly on my Sennheiser HD650s. If you want to use the mic into a mic preamp on an audio interface (like I am), you will need a special adapter that might be tricky to find. I'm using a MOVO F-XLR PRO. Other similar brands will work fine, what's important is that you need this adapter in order to convert the mic pre's phantom power to the lower voltage that the mod-mic requires. This voltage is provided by default from a gaming controller or a PC's 1/8" mic-in.

I don't normally leave product reviews but this is one of the worst pieces of gear I have purchased in a long while.The good-When the planets align and you are holding the mic in the perfect spot directly in front of your mouth...it doesn't sound all that bad. Just don't move your head and keep holding it.The Bad-Immediate reaction to unboxing this $60 dollar microphone was an overwhelming sense of cheapness. I've heard about the Antlion brand for years in a positive context but this was not was I was expecting. Everything here is a let down. The cable quality (that thin type of cable that always seems to retain the bends). The plastic screw-mount that the boom is magnetized to is far too weak. The mute switch housing is downright embarrassing. The casing literally came apart when I flipped the switch the first time. I thought maybe it was held together with some sort of snaps or adhesive but I have no idea how it's expected to stay together the way it's designed.-You see several reviews here mentioning issues with the magnetic sticky base. They arent wrong. Out of the box the base's adhesive was worthless due to the protective backing being haphazardly offset thus making most of the backing weak. Always cool to have to resort to the backup sticky pad minutes after opening.-My plan was to attach this to a pair of wired Sony XM4s. The initial issue was I needed to mount it on the left side so that the cable of the modmic would be in parallel with the 3.5mm cable of the XM4s. By default the ModMic Uni 2 is designed to mount to the right side of a pair of headphones. In no way did I think this would be an issue but they found a way. Their solution for converting the orientation it to the left side is to literally re-bend the mounting end of the boom (not the boom itself). The result of which makes your new $60 mic look like a twisted up pixie stick. If you need to convert the orientation I highly recommend maybe just twisting the boom itself and then reversing the mounting screw base. The issue with that I noticed is that the boom likes to start untwisting. Either way this is such a sloppy "solution" that could've been engineered several other ways. Or just engineered period.-The mic itself. So before mounting this now mangled thing to my pair of $250 headphones I wanted to test the thing first. I connected it up to a GoXLR via a Rode VXLR Plus XLR to 3.5mm adapter. Apparently Antlion previously to sold one of these adapters up until Spring 2025. Prob for the best it's retired if this was their quality bar. Anyway, no issues with the mic itself initially until it came to testing the positioning of the boom to the mouth. I quickly discovered this microphone struggles with range. Reducing the software gate to 0% I found myself cutting out when the boom was about halfway between my ear and mouth. The thing is....that's as far as I would be able to feasibly mount these on this set of headphones. I understand this might be more a fault of the headphone not having enough surface area but there's no reason it should struggle to pickup audio an inch away from my mouth. I switched to a direct 3.5mm connection to try and eliminate software variables with the mixer. Same thing. The only way I could get it to pick up voice consistently was to remove the the gate entirely and boost the gain to a ridiculous level. The obvious result was distorted audio. The irony was it would pickup a fan 10 feet behind me at times but couldn't register me.Overall-This was an astoundingly disappointing product to receive. In the post-2020 world it's become more common to buy tech that has obvious quality issues in certain departments. But this was a situation where every single aspect of this product was flawed. It's not even one of those situations where I'd say "well this wouldnt be too bad if it was priced in the $20-30 range". No, this is just a bad product. It's a bummer the Audio-Technica ATGM2 is discontinued.

I'm not super impressed with this, but it works okay.The audio quality is intelligible (and a huge upgrade from bluetooth mic audio) but nothing you'd want to use for even semi-professional recording.The boom is stiff hard to adjust, but reasonably stable once you get it how you want it. The most annoying part was getting it to stick to my headphones, though - as other reviews have mentioned, the included adhesive disks are completely useless and do not stick to any surface, no matter how clean. I cut out a piece of Command wall-hanging strip instead, and that worked quite well.Clips are included to keep the microphone and headphone cords hooked together, and these fit my headphone cord just fine, but I don't think there were nearly enough of them in the package to really keep the cords from getting tangled and snagged, so I might have to augment them with velcro ties or something.As a way to add a mic to a high-quality pair of headphones for gaming in particular, I think this product succeeds at what it's trying to do. If you like to hear your games in high quality, but are having trouble finding a pair of good headphones that includes a mic, then this lets you bodge a mediocre mic onto essentially anything. Don't expect it to be professional-quality, though.I ultimately feel like this product is a little on the overpriced side for what it is. I would expect similar quality from an entire headset that cost this much, but here you're only getting a microphone and a rather inadequate set of mounting accessories that you will have to DIY your way around. I think it was still worth it to me as a way to make my good headphones conveniently usable for online gaming, but I wouldn't consider it a particularly good value.