The interface also has 48V phantom power for driving condenser microphones ... plugged directly into the XLR output of a mic or at the end of an XLR cable, offering users more flexibility in ...

Dan Slentz tests Shure’s new SM4 microphone. The company markets it as a home recording mic for vocals and instruments.

If the microphone requires phantom power, this is still a single cable ... XLR and USB Type-C connections, and a real-time denoiser. When comparing raw vocal quality between dynamic and condenser ...

As a condenser mic, you get more vocal clarity than the ... which simplifies positioning your XLR cable. The only real downside is that it does require a relatively powerful audio interface ...

I think this is as high a quality a condenser capsule as you’d find in a separate electret microphone, but the XLR version needs an audio interface that has 48V of phantom power, just as you’d ...