Comments on: Better Microphones for Podcasting

By: Anthony O'Neal

Anthony O'Neal — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:33:38 +0000

A lot of computers come with internal microphones, but the sound quality is usually unusably bad. Mac probably has higher quality, but I don’t think you’d want to be using it for podcasting. If you’re rich enough to afford a Mac, you’re rich enough to afford a decent mike.

By: Bobby Shaw

Bobby Shaw — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:08:24 +0000

David,

I googled Podcasting microphones and lo and behold your site comes up as one of the first options.

Thanks for the tips. Good stuff. Hope all is well with you and the family.

Bobby

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Creating Content « Radio Boutros — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:11:17 +0000

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By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:53:36 +0000

Tony – yep – the MacBook Pro mic does a fine job, but can be a bit treble-friendly, too.

Not sure what your price is, but go to samash.com or musiciansfriend.com and search for “usb mic” in their search box, and you’ll find a range of mics/prices, from about $30 on up. Good luck!

By: Tony Marciante

Tony Marciante — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:45:31 +0000

I will give one piece of info…

using modern day video streaming sites like viddler, seesmic, etc.. seem to ramp up the processor on my Mac Book Pro…and using the internal mic during those sessions produce a lot of sound, unwanted, and it interferes with the recording. So I’m definitely looking to upgrade my external mic. i have a Radio Shack mic, which does ok, but it looks henious (sp?) and it’s just not SENSITIVE enough.

I need to keep it cheap, but sensitive to spoken voice…not guitar, not outside far away noise, just spoken voice.

Thanks.

By: Garry O'Neal

Garry O'Neal — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:48:45 +0000

Im sorry I was looking at the snow flake, not the snow ball. However the snow ball has also dropped to $99.99

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:33:02 +0000

Dan – you might try the Samson C01U. It’s also a USB condenser mic, and it sounds really good (and outputs louder than the Snowball).

Otherwise, go with the small sound board/soundcard method – then you can use any mic you want.

By: Dan Feinberg

Dan Feinberg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:05:10 +0000

The Blue Snowball is soft, the amplitude is just plain too low. They have a firmware fix that adds 10 DB but that makes the Mic not work in Vista. (Don’t tell me to get a Mac, all my clients use PC’s and compatability in business is critical) We actually really like Vista anyway.
Blue has been promising a fix for 14 months with no updates so far. I am going to sell mine and get something that works.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Sat, 27 May 2006 22:46:56 +0000

Me as Britney Spears! The mind boggles!

By: david king

david king — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:32:58 +0000

Karen – here’s the deal: Yes, that will do just what you’re thinking. The headset/microphone combo would probably work fine, and a lavalier or full headset mic (the kind Britney Spears uses when she cavorts around the stage) would sound a bit better.

The downside – they’ll also catch all those snorts, sniffs, coughs and murmurs extremely well, too. Maybe a bother… maybe not.