Recommended Microphone?

You will always have issues with distance unless you can treat a room for sound.

Basically, the further away from the mic you get, the higher you have to set the gain. This in turn begins to pick up echo from the walls.

All mics will have this problem (shotgun mics less so), which is the value in acoustic foam and other audio hacks.
 
Not sure if you play games with friends but I use the Turtle Beach X12 (works with Xbox and PC) to talk to my friends (on Xbox) and to do gaming commentaries (on PC). I personally think it's a good multi purpose microphone for a relatively cheap price ($60). Hope this helped
 
xWTM said:
Not sure if you play games with friends but I use the Turtle Beach X12 (works with Xbox and PC) to talk to my friends (on Xbox) and to do gaming commentaries (on PC). I personally think it's a good multi purpose microphone for a relatively cheap price ($60). Hope this helped
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I thought Turtle Beach just sell headset. I'll check out that. Thanks for giving me. If you have any others, just tell me ;)
 
Personally i use Blue snowball eventhough it is not a headset but i love how good my voice sound when im recording something. :) totally would recommed this to you. Also not so expensive :)
 
Janezkiii said:
Personally i use Blue snowball eventhough it is not a headset but i love how good my voice sound when im recording something. :) totally would recommed this to you. Also not so expensive :)
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Heard an issue that recording volume is low... Is it good for you?
 
As others have said. Blue Yeti is a good microphone. A few inexpensive mic that are really good are the Sennheiser e835, MXL 990, Sure SM58.[DOUBLEPOST=1373337345,1373337209][/DOUBLEPOST]That was Shure not sure. Sorry.
 
I've been podcasting for quite a while and the gold standard has been the Rode Podcaster (on the USB side) or the Heil PR40 (on the XLR side). Combine that with an arm/swivel mount and you've got the most comfortable and versatile "let's play" setup.

Of course, these both are on the expensive side with the Rode going for $230 and the Heil at $320 (not including the mixer/interface you'd need for this analog mic). They're well worth it though if you're going to be utilizing them regularly.

My only other recommendation is to urge you don't get a condenser mic, especially the ones on the cheaper $100-$200 range, unless you can adequately soundproof the room you're recording in. They sound great when implemented properly, but will pick up every little sound within 20 feet or so.

A narrow field dynamic microphone in that price range is infinitely better and easier to just "press-record-and-go". I can use my Rode Podcaster while my girlfriend watches TV in the very next room with the door open and it won't pick it up at all.

That being said, if you're on more of a budget, the Blue Yeti is still a great USB mic for the price. The Snowball, on the other hand, is too omnidirectional for my tastes and ends up picking up a lot of garbage background noise.
 
Blenderhead said:
A narrow field dynamic microphone in that price range is infinitely better and easier to just "press-record-and-go". I can use my Rode Podcaster while my girlfriend watches TV in the very next room with the door open and it won't pick it up at all.
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A Shure SM58 is ideal at reasonable cost for this role. :)
 
For me its good but also it depends on settings how high or low you keep the voice in the microphone.
 
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