Hi,

I got all excited about using a mic with my phone for Merlin - I bought both Sennheiser MKE 200 and 600's. To be honest, they help, but not in a transformative way. That, combined with my wife's worry that someone would think I have a gun in my hand (!) has resulted in me not using them much. It does seem like the phone mics (mine a Samsung) do pretty well. I do still wonder about a parabolic mic but that's going into full geekdom, and I have enough of that elsewhere in my life.

Brad Liljequist
Seattle, WA, USA