does anyone know of a good relatively cheap mic??
a week ago
I have a blue yeti that is old and pretty terrible. It catches up alot of noise people in voice calls constantly complain about it picking up too much noise.
There are also times when I stream it sounds like i'm inside of a tin can. I'm just not sure what I should buy as a good replacement for this hunk of junk.
If anyone has good experience with the mic they have, please let me know!! I dont know anything!! I dont want to be a nuisance to my friends with all the noise x n x
There are also times when I stream it sounds like i'm inside of a tin can. I'm just not sure what I should buy as a good replacement for this hunk of junk.
If anyone has good experience with the mic they have, please let me know!! I dont know anything!! I dont want to be a nuisance to my friends with all the noise x n x
If you want a bombproof setup for the mic itself, something like a Shure SM58 connected to an M-Audio M-Track Solo would be a great start. It would allow you to swap out the mic itself later without having to pay for the integrated electronics of a USB mic over and over again, and also gives you a nice tactile knob to adjust your mic level right on the box. The SM58 also includes a built-in pop filter so you don't necessarily need a separate one, you'd only need an appropriate boom arm to hold it, and an XLR cable to plug it in.
Make sure you pay attention to the mic's pick-up patterns too. A cardioid mic will be the least sensitive to sound coming from directly behind, so orient the mic so that direction faces the most annoying noise source you want to avoid picking up. Other mic patterns will have different optimal orientations.
If that all sounds too complicated and high-end, some headsets these days come with passable boom mics built into them. Since they will be very-close-mic'ing you, they'll be largely insensitive to ambient noise no matter how good/bad the actual mic is. I don't have any particular recommendations, though.
For $70 it does come with a shock mount and microphone stand as well. Also it's a USB and XLR mic so you can use it as is or pair it with an audio interface.
Also, the software is decent. It has a compressor and limiter, as well as basic eq