Best cheap mic for commentating?

[MrGPN]

Ultradisk 4016

 

[Lawlz]

thats the standard setting lol xD Ya can change that in your computer The standard setting for every mic is 10 Db Bcoz of that yubhave to keep your face CLOSE to the mic Yu have to increase the 10 Db to 20 Db and then ya will hear a difference I had tha same prob but its solved now bcoz of this

I used a blue snowball mic for about 8 months, and only just recently replaced it with the more expensive blue yeti. The snowball held up for me and did very well as far as quality. My biggest complaint is that it is a fairly quiet mic, and I had to buy a mic stand to get it closer to my face to use correctly.

 

[Shadeypwns]

thats the standard setting lol xD Ya can change that in your computer The standard setting for every mic is 10 Db Bcoz of that yubhave to keep your face CLOSE to the mic Yu have to increase the 10 Db to 20 Db and then ya will hear a difference I had tha same prob but its solved now bcoz of this

Hmm that's odd, I spent the first month I had the mic doing google searches and tweaking with the windows settings and drivers for it, and never heard about this, or saw it in my settings. You did this with the Blue Snowball mic?

 

[Lawlz]

Its with every mic xD Bcoz its a external mic that computer doesnt know, it just gives the standard settings Im experienced xD And it has nothing to do with the drivers lol xD Its just that yu need to modify the settings to what ye prefer xD There are lots of tuts on yt that explain it xD Just type "How to turn the volume up mic" xD Weird spelling but it shuld do the trick xD

Hmm that's odd, I spent the first month I had the mic doing google searches and tweaking with the windows settings and drivers for it, and never heard about this, or saw it in my settings. You did this with the Blue Snowball mic?

 

[Andrew Flint]

if you're willing to spend an extra £10-£15 I would go for the Blue Snowball ICE it's on amazon for around £40-£50 instead of £99 it's a really good quality mic and unless you want to upgrade to a Blue Yeti you won't ever need another microphone.

 

[Shadeypwns]

Its with every mic xD Bcoz its a external mic that computer doesnt know, it just gives the standard settings Im experienced xD And it has nothing to do with the drivers lol xD Its just that yu need to modify the settings to what ye prefer xD There are lots of tuts on yt that explain it xD Just type "How to turn the volume up mic" xD Weird spelling but it shuld do the trick xD

You're talking about generic microphones though, the Blue Snowball mic connects through USB, and is a condenser microphone. It has it's own drivers and settings. By experience are you referring to owning and operating a Snowball microphone yourself?

 

[Andrew Flint]

You're talking about generic microphones though, the Blue Snowball mic connects through USB, and is a condenser microphone. It has it's own drivers and settings. By experience are you referring to owning and operating a Snowball microphone yourself?

I use the Blue Yeti and lucky for me and everyone else that uses it we have a gain setting on the back and we can just change the microphones volume by this

 

[Shadeypwns]

I use the Blue Yeti and lucky for me and everyone else that uses it we have a gain setting on the back and we can just change the microphones volume by this

Oh my god right? This is easily my favorite part of the microphone. There's multiple games I run like Blops 2, that like to turn my windows mic settings maxed out to 100. Whenever this happens and someone says my mic is too loud I just twist a little knob on the back and it's perfect again!

Edit: To clarify, I like to run my Yeti at 60% mic volume through windows, with the gain nob turned about halfway on the Yeti mic itself. Games like to boost the windows mic volume to 100%, so all I have to do is adjust the Yeti's gain knob, and it adjusts for it

 

[Andrew Flint]

Oh my god right? This is easily my favorite part of the microphone. There's multiple games I run like Blops 2, that like to turn my windows mic settings maxed out to 100. Whenever this happens and someone says my mic is too loud I just twist a little knob on the back and it's perfect again!

Edit: To clarify, I like to run my Yeti at 60% mic volume through windows, with the gain nob turned about halfway on the Yeti mic itself. Games like to boost the windows mic volume to 100%, so all I have to do is adjust the Yeti's gain knob, and it adjusts for it

I always have my yeti at 50% gain (pointing at the A in gain) and just leave the windows microphone volume at 100% works fine for everything I use

 

[Lawlz]

Yes i have one xD But the mic has its own settings but the computer also has lol >:3 Yu can configure the mic settings nicely but if ya dun configure the computer settings on the pc then it wont have any effect .-.

You're talking about generic microphones though, the Blue Snowball mic connects through USB, and is a condenser microphone. It has it's own drivers and settings. By experience are you referring to owning and operating a Snowball microphone yourself?