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A permanent mount for my microphone
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It may actually help with the balance, but I think you have that mic pointed the wrong way.
Looks to me like a condenser with an element parallel to the body, it'd be better if you talk directly into the side of the mesh not the front:
Condenser mics are just the overall technology used to capture sound. They don't all have the same polar pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone#Polar_patterns).
A bit of digging suggests this is a Samson C01U, which has a supercardioid pattern centered on the bar, so it will pickup the largest spectrum pointed right at the source as OP has it, though it would also pickup on the sides fairly well.
Sorry, probably oversimplified there. You're right that the term condenser just refers to the element.
I had a very similar looking Samson condenser with that shape (grill on top with the bar splitting in half) and it had the element parallel to the body of the mic. So assuming it's similar to mine was, yes it'll probably work fine as mounted. But I'd bet if OP tilts it "upside down" and rotates 90deg one way or another (speaking into the grill, not the bar) they'd find much better signal/noise.