M-Audio Pulsar M-Audio's Pulsar is a medium-capsule professional microphone optimized for capturing all the nuances of your instruments. Pulsar is perfect for acoustic instruments like guitars, piano, strings, brass, and woodwinds. It's also great for percussion and drum overheads, as well as capturing room ambiance for electric guitar and drum tracks. Pulsar is another example of M-Audio's microphone design philosophy of fusing vintage design principles with modern manufacturing techniques. Its super-sensitive 6-micron evaporated-gold diaphragm is mounted in a solid brass capsule and body to yield amazing fidelity and faithful reproduction of the source. Class A electronics round out top-notch design and components to deliver incredible value in a microphone that you'll wonder how you lived without.