> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.unknowndivide.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Teenage Engineering EP-2350 FX-MIC: The Riddim Mic Goes Solo - URL: https://www.unknowndivide.com/teenage-engineering-ep-2350-fx-mic/ - Published: 2026-10-06T12:51:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-06T21:23:51.000Z - Description: Teenage Engineering's $59 FX-MIC is the ting mic from the EP-40 riddim, reborn for the K.O. II: a squeeze-to-talk lo-fi mic with four effects, four samples and presets you write in JSON. - Author: unknowndivide staff - Tags: Gear, Music, #signal Microphones are usually sold on honesty. The spec sheet promises a flat response, low self-noise and a capsule that captures a voice exactly as it is, and the marketing photos show it on a stand in a treated room. The [EP-2350 FX-MIC](https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-2350?ref=unknowndivide.com) from Teenage Engineering is built on the opposite promise. It is a handheld performance mic with effects, samples and a lever in the body, the company's own manual says it is "not hi-fi," and the whole point is that your voice comes out sounding like something else. *Unknowndivide may earn a commission from purchases made through links in this post. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.* The mic is not quite new, and that is the interesting part. It started life last November as the EP-2350 ting, the companion to the EP-40 riddim, Teenage Engineering's reggae, dub and dancehall groovebox. At launch the ting was thrown in free with the $299 riddim, and the companion mic is the essential half of the package. The riddim itself is one of the large-format EP machines that began with the EP-133 K.O. II, which our guide to [every Teenage Engineering product](https://www.unknowndivide.com/teenage-engineering-every-product-explained/) rates as the right way into the company's world. At the start of October the mic went solo. The FX-MIC is the same hardware idea in a new livery, with an orange volume knob under the lid where the ting had a green one, a fresh set of built-in samples, and copy that now says "hook it up to your K.O. II or plug it straight into any setup." Teenage Engineering is also selling it in bundles with the K.O. II and with the K.O.-sidekick mixer, which says plenty about where it thinks the mic belongs: on a table next to a sampler, in the hands of someone performing, not on a stand. The design reads like a toy and works like an instrument. Squeezing the handle powers the mic on and opens the channel, and how far you squeeze it sets the amount of the current effect. Shaking the body can also bend the sound, depending on the preset. An orange button steps through four voice effects, called echo, echo+spring, pixie and robot. A white button picks one of four sample slots and a grey one fires it. The factory samples are a horn, applause, a ringside bell and a censor beep that briefly mutes the mic, which the [user guide](https://teenage.engineering/guides/ep-2350?ref=unknowndivide.com) describes as being "for foul language emergencies." The clever bit sits under the lower lid. Plug the mic into a computer over USB-C and it mounts as a small disk. Drop in four WAV files, mono or stereo at up to 96kHz, and they replace the factory sounds, within a total of about 1MB of storage, which Teenage Engineering cheerfully notes is "more than any other microphone." A config.json file then rewrites the effects entirely, chaining distortion, reverb, delay, ring modulation, pitch harmony and EQ into new presets, and assigning the handle, the shake sensor or an LFO to any parameter. It is a lo-fi mic that you program like a synth. The practical details are modest. The FX-MIC runs on two AAA batteries or USB-C power, though USB-C does not charge the batteries, and it sleeps after five minutes and switches off after 20\. Output is a line-level 3.5mm plug on a curly cable, rated at up to 2 VRMS, so Teenage Engineering warns against plugging it straight into headphones. It is meant for a K.O. II, a mixer or a PA, and for anyone already building a portable setup like the ones in our [gifts for music producers](https://www.unknowndivide.com/gifts-for-music-producers/) guide, it is the cheapest piece of the system by far. The FX-MIC is on sale now from Teenage Engineering, and US retailers including [Perfect Circuit](https://www.perfectcircuit.com/teenage-engineering-ep-2350.html?ref=unknowndivide.com) list it at $59\. The K.O. II it was designed around is sold separately, and Teenage Engineering advertises it at $329. [Buy the EP-2350 FX-MIC from Teenage Engineering](https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-2350?ref=unknowndivide.com) ยท [See the EP-133 K.O. II on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJFH9V6W?tag=unknowndivi02-20&ref=unknowndivide.com) More in our [Home Studio hub](https://www.unknowndivide.com/home-studio/).