It’s a side-address mic, and on the front you’ll find the switches for the 10dB pad and 6dB per-octave bass roll-off (from 125Hz – gently sloped but kicking in high). Made in China (but designed and voiced in the US), the mic comes supplied in a good-looking case with an easy-to-use shockmount and a typically brief user guide. It feels serious and looks impressive with its large lollipop head sitting on top of a solid body. So to review the M-Audio Solaris, we gathered together three others… this is what we found.įirst things first, the M-Audio Solaris is a multi-pattern large capsule condenser microphone with a 1.1-inch solid brass capsule, a gold diaphragm and Class A FET electronics. It’s not possible to get them all in the same place at the same time to listen to them and it would be confusing if you could. The project studio microphone market has become so crowded with reasonably priced large condenser microphones that choosing one is not easy.
A whole lot of mic for not a whole lot of money.