It is expensive, but it is worth every riyal

Very happy with this mic so far. I use it on a hand pan drum. I would have liked the cable to be a bit thicker though as it looks like it could be easily damaged if something gets accidently placed on top of it like a chair leg, keyboard stand leg or flight case. Especially being black on a dark stage you might not notice until it's too late. I understand they need to be lightweight for attachment to string instruments and such but any lightweight cable trailing on a stage floor is asking for trouble. Perhaps they could offer two versions - a lightweight cable and a heavy duty cable.

I use these on a Rav Vast tongue pan and an H5 Zoom. More depth to the sound than recording die t onto the H5, and no background noise. Highly recommended.

The photo is showing the inside of my kora (west african harp-lute) where I had to sand and use wood glue to attach this thing to the underside of the bridge.It's so convenient that it just requires phantom power to use. My Pickup The World pickup (the thing that looks like a piece of silver gum next to the AKG 411) requires at least 1 ohm hi-z input to use which isn't always ideal.I experimented with placement for about 5 hours and found the place I like best. One inch, 30 degrees, just the slightest movements make a gigantic difference strangely. The sound is definitely not a microphone but is clear and extremely low noise. Actually much lower noise than my Pickup The World pickup (must be because it's a microphone not a contact mic). No quacking or artifacts, but not the warmest sound ever like a really great microphone placement. I wasn't expecting it to sound as good as it does though. When you combine the two pickups L and R you get a phenomenal stereo sound. I highly recommend this if you are recording or experimenting with your sound.They really ought to ship this with some thick double sided tape instead of the horrible black putty. I used 3M outdoor mounting double sided tape and it worked very well - easy to cut down to the right size.

I saw this recommended for mic-ing a kora on a sound-tech's forum, and thought I'd try it out for a range of unusual acoustic instruments that don't play loud. I pressed this on my calimba (thumb piano) and got great results right away. The pickup is usable at a variety of locations with great sound quality. At the most resonant place on the calimba sound board, I dialed the phantom-powered mic input of by Zoom R16 back a to about 60%. On a less-resonant spot, setting the gain to 90% got the right input level. I know I know I should be quoting gain in dB, but I'm not there yet. Anyway, it's nice to know that I can get a low-noise, richly toned contact-based pickup from different parts of the instrument. I got great results from the Audio-Technica Pro 35 clip-on mic, but this is sound pressure based mic that did have some feedback issues in my personal, wearable-PA setup with speaker very close to mic. I'm hoping the AKG contact mic may eliminate feedback issues since it won't pick anything up from my wearable PA speaker output.The packaging (includes sticky-gum mastic for attaching the mic) is great, especially the no-frills but tough and well-made zipper envelope/purse for the mic.