what kind of microphone would you recommend for voiceovers?

I don't recommend Turtle beach at all but they seem to be about £40 and everytime I break them I can just whip down to Tesco and buy another set. I'm on my 3rd set now and it's always the same fault, left ear cup fault and breaking away from the headband on the same ear.
 
Surprisingly Rock Band and Guitar Hero mics are actually really good quality! If you remove the sound of movement from the microphone they are brill :-D It's what I use! :-p
 
ProfKranc said:
Surprisingly Rock Band and Guitar Hero mics are actually really good quality! If you remove the sound of movement from the microphone they are brill :-D It's what I use! :-p
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That's actually the budget mic I usually recommend. You can get a rockband mic for next to nothing because of how many are out there. There is nothing that can beat the quality for the price.
 
Tarmack said:
Yep, that's the thing about it. The Yeti is not a bad mic, it just costs way too much for the quality level. If you can get a good sale, find the mic for $70-$80 then yeah it is a good value. My issue with Blue mics predominantly is that at least half of the people hanging out in editing here will tell people they are the best mics you can get, which is complete s***e and is usually coming from people who have never used another mic in their life. This is the power of Blue more than anything else. They convinced uninformed ignorant gamers and vloggers that they are the best out there, and the people market the product for them.

The snowball on the other hand is a genuinely bad mic.
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I don't think people in here tend to think it's THE best mic.. You can usually find it for very very cheap, Blue run discounts all the time. I'd also like to say no, the snowball is not a genuinely bad mic. It isn't the best out there but calling it bad isn't true..
 
Styxie said:
I don't think people in here tend to think it's THE best mic.. You can usually find it for very very cheap, Blue run discounts all the time. I'd also like to say no, the snowball is not a genuinely bad mic. It isn't the best out there but calling it bad isn't true..
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I suppose I should use the term bad value. It's no worse qualitywise than some other cheap mics, but the value is atrocious.

For starters, it is impossible to get good quality VO recording without a mount. The mic is such that positioned on the desk you will always get room echo and background noise due to being farther away from the mic than you should be. The mounting bracket costs $50, which is as much or more than the snowball usually costs. By the time you have spent $80-$100 on the mic and mounting bracket, you could have a standard shape Samson C01U which is a far better quality microphone. Or even an AT2020 if you found it on sale.
 
Tarmack said:
I suppose I should use the term bad value. It's no worse qualitywise than some other cheap mics, but the value is atrocious.

For starters, it is impossible to get good quality VO recording without a mount. The mic is such that positioned on the desk you will always get room echo and background noise due to being farther away from the mic than you should be. The mounting bracket costs $50, which is as much or more than the snowball usually costs. By the time you have spent $80-$100 on the mic and mounting bracket, you could have a standard shape Samson C01U which is a far better quality microphone. Or even an AT2020 if you found it on sale.
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Ah that's more like it, I can agree with that. Personally I haven't had any of the issues people seem to mention with it picking up every sound in the universe as well as echo, most probably because I live somewhere quiet. However I'd say that thee snowball is pretty damn decent when you can find it for dirt cheap, If I order it from the US when it's on sale it costs me like 30gbp, which is pretty damn great. I'd agree the AT2020 is a better choice, heck I would have chosen that over the snowball if I knew at the time that it existed ^^
 
Styxie said:
Ah that's more like it, I can agree with that. Personally I haven't had any of the issues people seem to mention with it picking up every sound in the universe as well as echo, most probably because I live somewhere quiet. However I'd say that thee snowball is pretty damn decent when you can find it for dirt cheap, If I order it from the US when it's on sale it costs me like 30gbp, which is pretty damn great. I'd agree the AT2020 is a better choice, heck I would have chosen that over the snowball if I knew at the time that it existed ^^
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Yeah, the biggest issue with the snowball is positioning. The moment you are 2-3 feet away from the mic (shotgun mics notwithstanding), the input volume of your voice is dramatically lower which results in the final recording having much more obvious background noise. If people with the snowball could stick it at their cheek at the usual 6-8 inches away, they would notice a huge decrease in that background mess. Which of course as mentioned requires the expensive mounting bracket. I don't consider stands part of the mic competition cost as in my view everyone should have a boom stand or scissor stand, regardless of microphone.
 
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