Hello all.
May be on of you has some experience with this stuff.
Trying to get some informationś about usb microphones.
Are there products on the market, that deliver a good quality of sound for vocal recordings?
Thanks a lot.
All the best
classic
USB mics that are woth the money?
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Heartbeat City Heartbeat City https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=681585
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I own a relatively expensive Neumann TLM 103 as my main vocal recording mic. It sounds amazing. I also own a more affordable Blue Spark SL for stereo recordings and to capture background ambiences when I'm doing my own sound design sessions.
I also own a USB Blue Yeti X for recording product demo voice overs for my job. It sounds really great for what it is.
That would be the one USB mic I would recommend.
I also own a USB Blue Yeti X for recording product demo voice overs for my job. It sounds really great for what it is.
That would be the one USB mic I would recommend.
Last edited by Heartbeat City on Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:38 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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- KVRAF
- 16869 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Good audio quality: probably yes.
Usable for podcasts: sure!
Usable for a musician: not really.
The problem is that most DAWs (on Windows at least) go through ASIO drivers. And ASIO is a thing that wants exclusiveness. One device allowed, only one is master clock.
USB mikes are simple class-compliant audio devices. Select it in your DAW, and you have no output device anymore. Work-arounds exist, but throw you back to high latency, which is not what you want.
You often can get the same mike with a XLR connector instead of USB for a similar price. Surely you need to have an interface with mic preamp. You have that, right!?
Usable for podcasts: sure!
Usable for a musician: not really.
The problem is that most DAWs (on Windows at least) go through ASIO drivers. And ASIO is a thing that wants exclusiveness. One device allowed, only one is master clock.
USB mikes are simple class-compliant audio devices. Select it in your DAW, and you have no output device anymore. Work-arounds exist, but throw you back to high latency, which is not what you want.
You often can get the same mike with a XLR connector instead of USB for a similar price. Surely you need to have an interface with mic preamp. You have that, right!?
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- KVRAF
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- 2600 posts since 26 Jul, 2004
BertKoor wrote: Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:29 pm Good audio quality: probably yes.
Usable for podcasts: sure!
Usable for a musician: not really.
The problem is that most DAWs (on Windows at least) go through ASIO drivers. And ASIO is a thing that wants exclusiveness. One device allowed, only one is master clock.
USB mikes are simple class-compliant audio devices. Select it in your DAW, and you have no output device anymore. Work-arounds exist, but throw you back to high latency, which is not what you want.
You often can get the same mike with a XLR connector instead of USB for a similar price. Surely you need to have an interface with mic preamp. You have that, right!?
Sure I have on.
Just looking for a new mike an a new interface also.
My on is an old digidesign on and it has too much knobs I have to fiddle on to have a sound at all.
I can record my voice and all that, but it just does not sound good.
Extremely thin and not loud enough.
May be the AKG mic or the interface is broke somehow.
May be I buy a new interface first, course its so old anyway and look, if that makes a change.
USB sounds like no really good option.