The M600 Universal Microphone Mount.

I’ve written here about noise problems I had in my voice-over studio in the past and how I solved them. They turned out to be low frequency rumbles that were fixed by weighting my microphone stand (cost: $0). Occasionally I still get a bit of rumble due to external noise creeping in, and I wondered what else I could do to address this. I sent an email to Enhanced Audio last month to inquire about the M600 and the owner, David Browne, called me from Ireland. As soon as I learned that one of his U.S. distributors is my beloved Mercenary Audio, I was on the telephone to my guy at Mercenary to order one. Since they’re in my home state of Massachusetts, I had the M600 in my studio the next day. It took just a few minutes to put it up, for which this impatient gal was grateful.

The verdict: it makes a difference. It’s hard to describe the difference, and if you visit the testimonials page at Enhanced Audio, you’ll find that few people make concrete statements about how their sound changed with the addition of this microphone mount to their studios - or at least, they don't base their impressions on the physics behind the change in the sound. I think a lot of people are mystified by it because the M600 is a solid structure, and audio engineers are used to shock mounts with rubber bands that supposedly allow low frequency noise to be dampened. My impression of the difference the M600 makes was certainly not based in science either. The way it struck me when I first used it was that it made the voice go from sounding two-dimensional to three-dimensional – and the silence between sentences is much more silent. I am very happy with it indeed. If Enhanced Audio also offered a mic stand to go with the mount I’d get one in a second.

U.S. consumers can get the M600 at Las Vegas Pro Audio as well as Mercenary. ElDorado Recording Services in Los Angeles may soon become a dealer as well.