Need help with finding the right microphone!

pawtaytoe said:
Depending on your budget, I would suggest looking into getting a Blue Snowball Microphone. I'm not sure what country you are from, but they are under $130 USD I believe? I might be wrong, but that is the "Industry Standard" for good quality microphones.
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I have bad experience with that mic, it worked for a year and 6 days after the warranty ran out it just randomly stopped working
 
What are you using it for? Vlogging or commentaries I would go for a snowball.

Unless you are recording high quality vocals for music then anything more expensive is probably overkill and a waste of money.
 
I have a Blue Snowball that my work lent me (someone uses it for Skype calls) and I tried it for some commentary. It works well but I found it picked up a lot of room echo. Your environment may vary though, I was using it not in a huge room but a decent size one that had a lot of empty space. I may look into a Blue Nessie when they come out as they are supposed to have a built-in DSP. I also just invested in a couple of these mics:

2 of Pyle-Pro PMEM1 Headworn Omni-Directional Microphone (3.5mm / 1/4'')

You can search for that on Amazon (sorry, can't post links yet.) They're very inexpensive and have very high user reviews, several of them from people who use them for recording. They don't require phantom power and you can plug them straight into your PC if you want. I purchased a small USB mixer with them as I will be using two of them simultaneously for a co-op series. I ran the items through a friend of mine who is a professional musician as well and let him know how I would be using them and he seemed to think they were good options.
 
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