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The Korg CM100L Contact Microphone is a perfect compliment to any tuner that offers an audio input jack. The mic can be positioned to get a more sensitive reading, while allowing the tuner to be positioned for easier reading. The jack is a 1/4 inch male phone connector.
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The CM-100L Contact Microphone is a perfect compliment to any tuner that offers an audio input jack. The mic can be positioned to get a more sensitive measurement, while allowing the tuner to be positioned for easier reading.
The clip style mic is ideally suited for clipping on to the body of an instrument to pick up the tuning note directly with minimal interference from ambient sound. It can be easily clipped on to the bell of a trumpet or the headstock of a guitar, for example.
Tuning via microphone can be convenient for accurate tuning in noisy environments, and the CM-100L also lets you access Korg's Sound Back mode (available on some models), which produces a reference tone closest to the input pitch you play on your instrument.
The CM-100L jack is a 1/4-inch male phone connector.
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CM-100L Contact Microphone
Rita Cheng
Reviewed in Canada on August 18, 2014
It was very useful!
Customer
Reviewed in Japan on January 11, 2014
本体ごと取り付けの物よりも軽くてしっかり取り付けできるので、便利です。静かな場所では本体のマイクで十分なのですが、いろんな音が氾濫している場所ではこれは必須のアイテムです！
Alex Nicol
Reviewed in France on February 26, 2013
Le problème quand on est seul pour accorder ses bourdons de cornemuse avec un tuner Korg: c'est impossible. Avec ce micro et le câble le problème est résolu. Il aurait fallu que la pince soit un peu plus large pour se fixer sur le bourdon plus facilement.
P.K. Frary
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2013
I teach guitar classes at a community college and spend my days in a room full of twangin' 'n strummin' guitars. Human ears and tuners with external mics, including iPhone app tuners, have trouble in such an environment. Why? The cacophony of competing pitches befuddle both brains and tuning machines. So I bring an extra beefy and Korg CM-100L mic to class for students to use. And it works great: clip to the headstock and it isolates their guitar from the din and delivers a clean signal to the Seiko.The Seiko tuner has hit the deck many times and still looks like new after a couple years. Unfortunately the CM-100L is not nearly as durable: wires are thin, delicate and prone to breaking. If I was the only one using the CM-100L, it would probably last for many years. But students are rough and can't stop themselves from tightly wrapping the wire around the tuner after they're finished (although I ask them not to). The wire gets stressed at the mic clip and/or plug and shorts out. I burn through one or two CM-100L per semester. I found a big gob of silicon sealant on stress points helps extend the life of the wire (electrical tape is useless).Great product: easy to use and makes tuning in a room full of guitars a snap. Wish they made an industrial strength model with big beefy cables...
kaimbanks
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2012
I play trumpet and ordered this product so I could tune my instrument more accurately during both my own practice time and the general tuning note while playing with my symphony.The idea behind a contact microphone is simple: it measures the vibrational frequency of the surface it's attached to and displays that on the face of the tuner. This means that it'll only pick up one set of vibrations and won't react to any vibrations it's not physically in contact with. Perfect for a symphony setting where you have 100+ musicians around you playing at the same time.It works flawlessly with all my trumpets (and my acoustic guitar, for that matter). I use it in conjunction with my Korg Metronome/Tuner (which I love, by the way).It's as easy as plugging it into the port on your tuner (make sure it has a correctly sized port!) and clipping the microphone itself onto your instrument. Then tune away, and enjoy incredibly accurate readings with no interference from other sound sources!
Semih
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012
I bought this product to experiment with the recording of sounds of vibrating objects and it works like a charm (much better than the other, relatively more expensive contact mics I have been trying). You can clip it to your desk or your lamp or a pot, etc and may hear sounds you have never heard before. If you are into electronic filtering and processing, you can do lots and lots of things to those sounds of course.It looks like most people here have bought it for use with tuners. I tried that too with an old Korg AT-12 and an accoustic guitar and the result was great.I connected the guitar to an amp (Roland Micro Cube) and the mic's pickup power is perfect but what it hears and transmits is the vibrations of the wood of course (not the events in the resonance chamber), and this is a matter of taste and purpose, some may like it, some may not. I attached it to an harmonica, again, the pickup was very powerful and clean.Attention: contact mics have significant impedance and gain requirements. That is, if you get this mic and connect it directly to your laptop or handheld recorder, etc, it will not work. It requires interfaces but nothing fancy. In my case, it works great with the guitar amp mentioned above (Roland Micro Cube). I also have an M-Audio Firewire Solo interface and connecting the mic to its guitar input to record with Logic Pro software worked perfectly well. I also tried putting a simple 4-channel mixer in between and the result of that was fine too.In short, this mic is a superb product and it is only 10 dollars!
Richard Rapp
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2011
The clip on tuner mic works great. It very useful for tuning around other people playing or warming up to be sure you are tuning your instrument, especially for beginners.It can also be used to monitor your own playing within an ensemble to be sure you are maintaining your intonation under normal playing conditions. I would recommend this as a spot check only, particularly if you are getting feedback about your intonation from other players or the conductor. You can also use it in practice to verify the minor tuning adjustments unique to your instrument.That said, you must develop your ear and learn to hear what is and is not in tune, and to hear yourself amongst an ensemble. It does you no good to play a perfectly piched note, if the ensemble you are in is not perfectly in tune. Tuning individually is absolute, but in an ensemble, it is relative.
emmrecs
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2011
This unit, paired with a Korg tuner, clamped to the headstock of either an electric bass or an electro-acoustic guitar, enables fast, accurate tuning of the instrument.I haven't tried it in this way but I suspect you could clamp it to almost ANY acoustic instrument and so check its tuning, depending on the range that the associated tuner can detect.An excellent piece of kit!
Alius
Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2010
Wetterfestes Piezo mit brauchbaren Klangeigenschaften.Leider recht hohe Streuung in der Produktion. Habe zwei Exemplare bei unterschiedlichen Händler bestellt - "Stereo" sind sie kaum zu gebrauchen, da sehr unterschiedliches Pegelverhalten.Wenn die Piezos mit Verlängerungskabel betrieben werden sollen, sind Metallstecker ein MUSS - sonst gibt es heftige Brummeinstreuung aufgrund unzureichender Abschirmung... ;-)
S. Smith
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2008
Your looking at this product because you have a great, true acoustic guitar: one without electronics installed. You are also probably frustrated because your electronic tuner's mic picks up ambient noise and makes it difficult to tune. If you have a relatively decent tuner but it takes too long to tune due to ambient noise, this device works and will ease 90% of the difficulty. It is a contact mic, NOT an acoustic mic, and clips unto the very top of the guitar head, past the tuners.PS: If you do not have a decent electronic tuner, this is a great one @ $25.00: "Korg TM-40 Large Display Digital Tuner and Metronome".The Metronome is annoying (electronic click clack), but the tuner is great.
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