Built for online tutors running Zoom classes for Strathmore and USIU students, podcasters recording two-person interviews on a shared desk, customer service agents handling call queues in Westlands offices, and lawyers joining virtual Milimani Law Courts sessions where the magistrate must hear every word. Most Kenyan buyers reach for this microphone after a specific problem: the built-in laptop mic sits beside the cooling fan, picks up keyboard clatter, and leaves callers asking them to repeat sentences. The UGREEN CM564 moves the capsule 20 to 30 centimetres closer to the mouth and away from the fan exhaust, which alone fixes most complaints about muddy voice on Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.

At Mascom International, we are seeing steady demand for the UGREEN CM564 Desktop USB Microphone from church media teams, campus radio clubs, and small agencies that priced the Blue Yeti or HyperX SoloCast and found them three to five times dearer. Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya who list a photo and a one-line description, our Kimathi Street counter lets you plug the UGREEN CM564 into a laptop and record your own voice before paying. Customers across Nairobi report that colleagues stop asking them to move closer to the screen within the first week of use.

Yes, for anyone who speaks into a computer more than three times a week. At KSh 6,000 the UGREEN CM564 sits well below the KSh 18,000 to KSh 30,000 asked for Blue Yeti, HyperX QuadCast, and Rode NT-USB Mini units in Nairobi shops. You give up multi-pattern switching and 24-bit recording, but you gain a dedicated condenser capsule, a physical mute button, and a gooseneck. For meetings, lectures, and voice-over drafts, that trade lands firmly in the buyer's favour.

Noticeably better, mainly because of placement rather than raw specification. Laptop microphones sit inside the chassis, roughly 50 centimetres away, next to a cooling fan and directly above a keyboard. The UGREEN CM564 puts a condenser capsule on a gooseneck you can angle within 20 centimetres of your mouth, so your voice arrives louder than the room. The signal-to-noise ratio above 60dB and the 16-bit/48kHz sampling rate hold background hiss well under what integrated HP, Dell, and Lenovo microphones produce.

It does, and that is the main reason boardrooms choose this shape over a cardioid stick mic. The capsule captures evenly from every direction, so four people seated around a 1.2-metre table are picked up without passing a handset around. The trade-off is honest: omnidirectional capture also hears the ceiling fan, the corridor, and rain on a corrugated roof. For solo podcasting in an untreated room, a cardioid microphone isolates better. For team calls, this pattern wins.

Plug it into any free USB-A port and Windows or macOS recognises it within seconds, no download required. UGREEN lists support for Windows 7, 8.1, 10, and 11, macOS, and Linux, which covers almost every machine sold in Kenya including used HP EliteBook and Dell Latitude imports. After connecting, open sound settings and pick the UGREEN microphone as your input device. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, OBS Studio, Audacity, and WhatsApp Desktop all detect it the same way.

Yes for spoken-word content, with one limitation worth knowing. The 100Hz to 15,000Hz frequency response captures speech clearly but rolls off the deep chest tones below 100Hz that broadcast microphones reproduce, and the 16-bit/48kHz ceiling means less headroom than 24-bit rivals when you edit heavily. For interview podcasts, YouTube commentary, online course narration, and church sermon uploads, the output is clean and publishable. For music vocals or commercial voice-over work, budget for a cardioid XLR setup instead.

An onboard noise-reduction chip filters steady ambient sound such as fan hum, air conditioning, and generator drone during power cuts. It will not remove a matatu hooting outside a Ngara window or children in the next room, because omnidirectional capture treats those as legitimate audio. Practical fixes work better than software: angle the gooseneck away from the window, close the door, and use the mute button between turns. Users report that a mouse pad under the base also cuts typing vibration.

The knob adjusts microphone input gain across 15 steps, letting you match a soft speaker or a loud one without opening computer settings mid-call. Pressing the same knob mutes and unmutes instantly, and the ring beneath it turns red when muted and blue when live, so you can confirm your status at a glance during a Teams meeting. The 3.5mm port on the base carries audio out from your computer to headphones for monitoring while you record.

Buy it if you take video calls daily, teach online, run a small studio for interviews, stream mobile gaming, or run meetings where several people share one desk. Skip it if you record music vocals, need switchable polar patterns, or work in a permanently noisy room where a cardioid mic would reject more. Journalists doing field interviews also need a portable recorder instead, since the UGREEN CM564 requires a computer USB port to function at all.

The UGREEN CM564 Desktop USB Microphone retail box from Mascom International contains the microphone with its attached gooseneck and weighted base, the fixed 1.5-metre USB-A cable already wired to the unit, and the printed user manual with setup and cleaning instructions. No headphones, adapter, or pop filter ships with this model. Mascom International stocks USB-A to USB-C adapters, wired monitoring headphones, and desk stands separately for buyers assembling a fuller recording corner.

The UGREEN CM564 Desktop USB Microphone carries a 12-month UGREEN manufacturer warranty covering defects under normal use, processed directly through Mascom International's Nairobi CBD service desk. Physical damage from drops, liquid spills, and a gooseneck bent past its natural range fall outside coverage. Keep your receipt and original packaging for any claim.

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Every unit is covered by the 12-month warranty detailed above, with claims handled at our Nairobi CBD service desk.

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