The sound pick up of this mic is impressive, it has a scoping feel, letting you lay the sound scape with the motion of the action you're capturing.I found the reach out around from the point of recording to be at least 120 degree's, and listening back with surround sound it feels very much as though peripheral sounds are recorded just right.Switching power on gave a clairy to the sound which was rish and vibrant.If I had to pick a fault, it's a tiny niggle, that the whole unit is metal cases, save the screw and fitting, which are both hardened plastic. If they had of been metal, this would have just been perfect.However, for this price point one can not complain, and I found this to be an excellent source of audio.Also, using a 3.5mm jack you can use this hands free (though it's cumbersome) and I did so to record a sound profile of some moving (living) wood (tree's) which it recorded excellently, down to the subtle note changes with the wind, but without picking up too much of the ambient environment.Traffic noise seemed to be a challenge for the mic, high pitch, sudden changes, such as a horn, or a close song bird maxed out the capture profile, saturating the sound signal, but from there are options beyond just the foam baffle to solve those problems, and indeed they died away with a furry baffle I attached later.