Just to plug in with no DiY I did check out one of these and very similar results to my boya but much smaller and cheaper.
Nice, that looks like a pretty convenient option. My friend is helping me assemble the microphone breakout board now, but I may consider something like this if we run into problems.
If you have the max9814 run the gain with the jumper at low or medium at most high is definitely over optimistic and noisy.
I use the gnd from the 3.5mm jack and then 5v to board 5v.
Electret -+ just needs to go to -+ on the input and that should be your lot.
But yeah if you run into trouble the above will just plugin has a little mini gooseneck and actually is hard to tell the difference to my £20 Boya.
Okay, thanks. My friend and I usually only meet once a week, so perhaps we will get to try it soon.