I work at a Catholic University with a chapel that gets used daily. We have a wide variety of people who speak at the ambo, and I was tasked with upgrading the mic at the ambo.

It literally took days of research, and countless emails with Geoff at Sweetwater, but we settled on this mic. It is an incredible mic and has been an excellent fit.

We chose the super-cardioid capsule to avoid feedback. I've been really please by the fact that it accommodates people of all heights, and it is fairly consistent as the speaker turns their head side to side to speak to different sections of the audience.

We chose this mic because it only had one gooseneck. The old mic was 22 inches and had a double gooseneck. People fidgeted with it all the time, and it was often pointed off-point for a given speaker. We centered the new mic in the middle of the ambo top, and it is fixed in place, which discourages fidgeting with the mic.

We bought the 3" vibration mount, which is where it got tricky. The 3" mount is already thicker than the ambo top, and so i wanted a 90 xlr connector. But the mic is a 5 pin XLR out and I needed a 3 pin XLR out. The answer was found in the literature with the desktop mobile base made for this mic. two of the pins in the 5 pin are used for digital control of the mics extra features. Those pins can be ignored if the mic will be controlled through a mixer. We run our sound system through a remote IPad with mixer software, so we didn't need the digital controls. We purchased a Neutrik NC5FRXB 5-Pin Right Angle XLR Female Cable Connector and soldered a 3 wire shielded XLR cable to that connector. Works like a charm. (again, in doing so we gave up digital control features, but we weren't going to use them anyway. Our sound operator mutes/unmutes and controls volume.) The pin wiring diagram can be found in the literature of the mobile base.

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