Best microphone?

Girl01 said:
Yeah it's for general beauty type videos

Thanks for your help I didn't realise you then had to edit the audio as well.

Is audacity expensive/ a large software?
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Audacity is free, theres many tutorials out there on editing your audio, theres usually only a few steps to really make it sound good. It doesnt take up much diskspace and runs rather light in comparison to commercial audio software. You can download it here:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

You dont have to edit but if you want the most out of your microphone and best post production possible for your videos then you will need to do some audio editing too.
 
Michael said:
Audacity is free, theres many tutorials out there on editing your audio, theres usually only a few steps to really make it sound good. It doesnt take up much diskspace and runs rather light in comparison to commercial audio software. You can download it here:

audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

You dont have to edit but if you want the most out of your microphone and best post production possible for your videos then you will need to do some audio editing too.
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Thank you for that. I didn't realise all this I learn stuff everyday! Is There's no way I can edit audio as good as audiccity on final cut or imovies?
 
I have never used a Mac before lol only Windows computers and a little bit of Ubuntu. Most video software dont include the extras that audio software include and usually only have basic audio adjustment tools. You can get Audacity for Mac:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac

It wouldnt take too long to learn how to make some adjustments, I only take 5 steps each time to clean out my audio and make it sound a little better and it takes a matter of a minute perhaps and I dont know all that much to do with audio editing either using presets mostly.
 
Michael said:
I have never used a Mac before lol only Windows computers and a little bit of Ubuntu. Most video software dont include the extras that audio software include and usually only have basic audio adjustment tools. You can get Audacity for Mac:



It wouldnt take too long to learn how to make some adjustments, I only take 5 steps each time to clean out my audio and make it sound a little better and it takes a matter of a minute perhaps and I dont know all that much to do with audio editing either using presets mostly.
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Ah cool, that doesn't sound too complicated then. In definatley going to download it when I get my mic

Thanks for all the tips
 
Girl01 said:
Ah cool, that doesn't sound too complicated then. In definatley going to download it when I get my mic

Thanks for all the tips
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Heres a video that might help you when you get it, I learned my own methods mostly from this video but with slight tweaks to how he does it:

 
Michael said:
Heres a video that might help you when you get it, I learned my own methods mostly from this video but with slight tweaks to how he does it:


Ok thanks it's not for singing though

By the way I didn't write a heart to you in my post I don't know why it did that lol
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You don't have to edit/enhance your audio as long as you have a good mic, not plan on doing any singing or there is a lot of background noise in your recording.

What you should aim for within that budget range is a condenser mic and a great one is the Rode Podcaster. I've used it myself a while ago.

If you want to step it up another nudge you should look at dynamic mic such as the Shure SM7B (the one I use). But they cost about £300 and you need a mixerboard since they use a XLR input. The quality is a lot better than the condenser usb mics. But then again I use it a lot for voice acting so it's really over the top for vlogging.
 
JacobofArabia said:
Depends on how much money you are willing to spend. :)
I've never tried any rode mics so I can't help you there, but both the AT2020 (£70), Blue Snowball (£50) and Yeti (£91) are very good (Yeti is better) but again it all depends on how much money you're willing to spend :p
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Lmao, the Yeti is not better. As far as the 3 you mentioned, the best, in order would be:
1.AT2020
2.Yeti
3.Snowball
 
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