M-Audio Audio Buddy If you're looking for a whole lot of preamp on a tight budget, you'll see where this popular product gets its name. Affordability and performance make the Audio Buddy is one of the most popular mic preamps in home recording today. You get professional microphone support along with line inputs impedance-matched for ideal performance with electric guitar and bass. Simply put, the Audio Buddy is a workhorse mic preamp that sounds great and won't hurt your budget.

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.