VSG Omkara Microphone Review: A USB Option That Goes Beyond PC

ESR consolidates in the Peruvian market. After becoming the official sponsors of Lima Major 2023, their combined presence among the national players is growing and they want to combine it with devices for any needs of the players.

For this reason, and after reviewing an extensive list of branded equipment, we now have microphone promoted by the company: omkara. Not all peripheral brands offer these devices to the general public, so having them in the catalog is more than a plus, especially with the podcast and streaming boom. Now, has it come to touch our pockets?

Specifications VSG Omkara

• Capsule Type: Capacitor
• Supply voltage: 5 V
• Current consumption: 25 mA
• Capsule diameter: 16mm
• Polar Pattern: Cardioid
• Frequency response: 50 to 18,000 Hz
• Sensitivity: -48 dB
• Maximum input sound pressure level: 100 dB
• THD: <1%
• Signal-to-noise ratio: < 70 dB
• Sampling frequency: 48 kHz
• Bit depth: 16 bits

Designed by VSG Omkara

Microphones tend to be standard in terms of design, but we can highlight omkara mainly because of its size: it is small.

It’s made mostly of aluminum, so it’s durable but not heavy in the hand. It also focused areas with plastic, but the finish feels solid.

Inside its buttons, we have a potentiometer wheel to adjust the microphone gain, and below we have a very, very sensitive button that allows you to mute the sound with one touch. It does not make noise and in video calls or streaming can be very useful due to its practicality. However, more than once during interviews in the field, his position and his sensitivity caused the slightest friction to mute the recording, giving me more than one headache.

What I want to add to this section are the components by which the presentation box omkara.

We have a very handy desktop microphone stand for your gaming area or office. This allows us to not only place a team on one side, but also play with their position according to the physical space we have.

The stand is very good in terms of height, but it’s not necessarily good because it can interfere with, for example, our webcam recording. It also adds an anti-pop foam filter.

On a positive note, it adds a long USB-C to USB-A cable with which we can easily connect the microphone to the PC and use it without the need for any software. It doesn’t add a small USB-C to USB-C cable to use the microphone on mobile phones, but it won’t be expensive or difficult to get one.

ESR Omkara Performance

This is a cardioid microphone, so it picks up only those sounds that are marked on the front of the equipment. It has no other configuration.

In addition, at medium gain, the microphone works very well in streaming, video calls and online games. It doesn’t absorb noise too much (it will have small noises that you can hide with the software in Discord or Zoom), so the sound we will be making will be clear, which is very good for starting our adventures on platforms such as Twitch or Facebook Gaming. .

I especially like the fact that there is an option to connect it to cell phones, which gives it a very important additional use, although the cable is not included. It is recommended to buy a long cable and it will be of great help in the field.

Interviews recorded with a microphone in the middle of an event Dota 2 with a lot of ambient noise.

To this I will add the fact that the microphone works with consoles such as PS4, which is another big plus for the versatile gamer who has it in his alternatives.

Something that might be missing from the microphone is the addition of a 3.5 port for plugging in headphones and monitoring our audio.

Another important point is its price: it is about 200 soles, which is much more affordable than models already on the market, such as the Blue Yeti or HyperX Quadcast, and even cheaper than the Blue Snowball. Of course, in some retail stores it outperforms the Razer Seieren by a few salts.

Should I buy VSG Omkara?

The VSG Omkara is an excellent choice of inexpensive USB microphones for streaming and gaming. The best thing is that it’s not exclusive: you can even use them with your mobile phone and expand the possibilities of its use. Throw in our own boxed tripod, and while we don’t have recording patterns other than cardioid polarization, in addition to a very responsive mute button, it seems like a good starting point in this increasingly competitive world.