Klark TeknikMic Booster Ct 1

Prior to this purchase I was running my Shure SM58-LC though a Behringer X1622USB mixer connected to a Focusrite Clarett 4Pre USB. I wanted to minimise my desktop clutter and free up some space.This little beauty works without issue and the difference is noticeable immediately with it's clean sounding boost and allowed me to cut the mixer out of the loop. Worth every penny!

To be clear, I don't use my microphone for any professional setting. I do use a Presonus PD-70 on a boom arm for chatting and have suffered with poor volume and a muffled sound from it despite the gain on my Presonus 26c interface being set to max/50db.Recently learned of these inline microphone preamps that add gain to your microphone using 48v phantom power from your interface and thought I'd give this one a go as couldn't justify the price of the others for a casual setting.Immediately, my microphone can clip from the settings I had before and it sounds much fuller reduced at about the 2-3 o clock position on the input gain volume on my interface.It feels much more like the microphone I'd heard when I bought it all of that time ago, and cannot recommend it enough for the money.It also feels very weighty in the hand and looks very well made, I expect this will last a long time. Klark Teknik is owned by Music Brands which is in turn owned by Behringer which apparently some do not like. In my opinion, this is a good thing as it's owned by a large brand.In love with this product ever since I plugged it in and tested it. 10/10

The little mic amp arrived well packed and I plugged it in straight away. I have some 1950s Film Industries M8 ribbon mikes, that work well with old analogue, valve equipment and a transistor Nagra recorder. However with modern audio equipment more gain is required. This little gizmo does the trick, lifting the signal by around 20dB whilst offering a compatible impedance for the mike.It operates from the +48v phantom power from the interface/mixer, but does not pass this through to the mike. This is important for older instruments.I did hatch up an battery powered op-amp lifter, but was disappointed by the noise. The Klark Teknik C1 has a low noise floor (I assume due to its use of FET semiconductors) whilst rendering mellifluous tones from my venerable old ribbon microphones.I have no hesitation in recommending this item to anyone requiring a boost to a mike signal.

For the price it's pretty decent and delivers clean gain in a fairly small form factor. There's not much to say apart from it works the way it's intended.It will need 48v phantom power.

It arrived today, and I immediately did an a/b with and without using a range of dynamic microphones I have lying around. I record a weekly sermon podcast and I've been struggling to get the sound just right - always needing the gain to be really high on the usb interface just to get a sufficient signal. This booster has totally resolved this - my gain is now just under 12 o'clock where it was previously pushing 4 o'clock, and the channel volume is likewise dropped down from max to around halfway. It's clean and clear - hasn't introduced any unwanted noise in the chain. What more could you ask for, especially considering it's under £20. Even using cheaper microphones, such as the AKG D5 and Behringer XM8500, it's made a significant difference in both volume and 'weighty-ness' of audio quality. Delighted.

Had looked around for a mic booster for a while now, I have the Rode Procaster which needs a fair whack of power to be sent through it that my Roland interface didn’t really provide. Went from being nearly maxed out on gain to running about 50%. Much better value than other options and voice quality is great. 10/10 would buy again.

retaining clip broke after just the second use. Microphone was jammed on.cheap shoddy cast metal part failed and left me with a mic stuck and itneeded an engineer to free this pre-amp from mic. also if you want to complain they make you sign up to some so called help web site.. yet another nosey sod that wants your email address.

Really pleased with the booster. I bought a Rode Podcast mic earlier this year, along with a UMC2002HD interface and found that I had to turn the gain all the way up to get a reasonable amount of input to the computer.Didn't really want to spend more money, but eventually saw this and decided to take the plunge. Got it, fitted it inline and wow! What a difference.The Gain is at around 50% and I am getting good (relatively) noise-free sound from the mic, allowing more latitude to make adjustments on the equaliser and making my voice sound so much better.Recommended.