Electro-Voice RE20 Broadcast Announcer Microphone (Black) Bundle 309A Mic Shockmount

This is used in radio stations and tv stations across the world and with good reason. It’s designed for spoken word and acoustic instruments, having just used mine to mic an in-studio guitar performance from my show guest. I’ve narrated audio dramas, liners, promos and even a video game with this beautiful instrument. Voice actors tend to favor large capsule condenser mics—and they capture a ton of nuances in voices, and provide proximity effect whereas RE-20 cuts your proximity effect—but if you don’t have a sound proof room, the rejection of ambient noise by the RE-20 is fantastic. My recommendation is to start with two mics—and make this one of them!

I'm used to condenser mics, so when I got the package delivered, I was surprised how heavy and huge this mic is and how much heavier it is again with the 309A shock mount. What a frickin' monster. Good grief, the search is on for a boom stand that will support this Godzilla of a microphone. As for how it operates and sounds, there's enough reviews in here to satisfy that. If you watched RL do his show on the dittocam, and if you have a mic processor like a DBX 286S in play, you know how far away from this mic you can be while being physically animated and squirming around and still sound like a million bucks (or over 600 million in his case). If this mic is good enough for the most famous radio announcer of all time, it's certainly good enough for me (even though mine isn't actually gold plated for real like his). With radio being his deep love and passion since childhood, and with unlimited resources to use anything he could ever dream of, if the Shure SM7B was better than this mic, RL would have used it. It's the EV RE20 through which he broadcasted the most famous and most successful radio broadcast of all time. And that says it all. Also, a side note: I've seen a LOT of YouTubers and podcasters using "poser" mics, basically fancy looking condenser or dynamic mics on a stand just to look cool in front of their cameras - but if you look closely, their mics are often mounted or positioned wrong and they're actually wearing tiny little lapel/lavaliere mics pinned to their shirts because they don't even know how to set up a real studio mic. What phonies! The Greatest of All Time actually used his RE20, and what you heard on his show actually came through this glorious microphone.

The RE20 is a classic mic that you see in radio and podcasts everywhere. I use it for recording voiceovers, screencasts, and even to sound good on video conferences. I also recommend getting a mic activator, such as the Cloudlifter CL1 since the RE20 tends to need a bit more gain in the signal.

Amazing mic with the shock mount I needed to get anyway. It sounds so good! Seller went out of their way to fix an issue I had with my order. I'm very happy with my purchase and would buy from Kellards again.

I love the sound of this mic.