Presonus PD-70 Dynamic Cardioid Broadcast Mic Podcast Recording Microphone

The PD-70 is a dynamic broadcast microphone built for one job: capturing the spoken word cleanly. You speak into the top of the mic, and its cardioid pattern rejects sound arriving from the sides and rear, so room reflections, HVAC rumble, electrical hum, and the car going past the window stay out of the recording. The dynamic capsule also resists the plosives, breathiness, and mechanical noise that close-mic condensers tend to exaggerate.

Because the off-axis rejection does most of the acoustic work, you can set up in a spare bedroom, a shared office, or a volunteer radio booth without treating the room first. The PD-70 works with any audio interface or mixer that has a microphone preamp, so it drops straight into an existing podcast rig, a broadcast console, or a two-person interview setup with no extra hardware.

Clarity holds across the full frequency response, which keeps voices sounding natural instead of processed, and the hard mount and windscreen are built into the body, so there is nothing extra to buy or misplace. The rugged metal construction handles daily use, travel, and long shifts hanging from a boom arm.

Studio One Prime is included for recording and editing in a single-window, drag-and-drop workflow with unlimited tracks and buses, along with the Studio Magic plug-in suite of effects, sounds, and software synths in VST, AU, and AAX formats. Podcasters, streamers, YouTubers, radio hosts, and voiceover artists get the same result: a close, warm, intelligible voice with very little fuss.