Microphone

[Zingking]

I am looking for recommendations on a microphone.
Criteria:
- Under 100$ (The cheaper the better)
- Medium to High Quality (Going to be used for Podcast, videos, and animations)
- Looks cool (this is optional, lol)

Thank you to all who recommend!

[SessileNomad]

- Under 100$ (The cheaper the better)
- Medium to High Quality (Going to be used for Podcast, videos, and animations)

these might cause some issues together

[Back-From-Purgatory]

You get what you pay for...

In other words, you aren't going to get a medium to high quality mic for less than $100.

[JonH2O]

I'll sell you my Snowball for $60. It's what you're looking for.

http://www.bluemic.com/snowball/

[SpaceWhale]

I use a Nady 24M Microphone. It's cheap, and filters out bg noise. All youneed is a DC Offset remover, and you're set.

[Gravey]

At 4/15/10 04:30 AM, Zingking wrote: I am looking for recommendations on a microphone.
Criteria:
- Under 100$ (The cheaper the better)
- Medium to High Quality (Going to be used for Podcast, videos, and animations)
- Looks cool (this is optional, lol)

Thank you to all who recommend!

For $100 or less your best bet for what you are doing would probably just be the SM 57. But I would like to mention that you get what you pay for. For $200 you can get an MXL 4000 that is far superior in terms of recording vocals. For $100 though its hard to go wrong with the SM 57.

[loansindi]

For spoken word applications, any of these USB microphones would serve you just fine.

You'll also want a pop filter and to read up on some basic microphone technique.

[axlisbak]

make sure you know if your soundcard accepts mono or stereo jacks, buy all sorts of adaptors

[joshhunsaker]

Shure SM58 is definitely a decent "medium quality" microphone. They are used everywhere.