The Flying Sloth

Audacity

Take a read through the guide in my signature so you can get an understanding of the type of mic suited to your space. Recommendations will change greatly depending on the size of your room and how well treated it is. As a general rule Dynamic mics are less sensitive and will pick up less background noise. Decent XLR dynamic mics start at about $30 with the Tbone MB75 but other options klike the Rode Podmic are also excellent choices for slightly more dough.

Look at your local classifieds, there will very likely be some used powered studio monitors there from a respectable brand like Yamaha, KRK or Tannoy. These will almost always beat any consumer audio solution at a given price point.

A noise gate will only block the buzzing while there is no other sound, meaning, when you talk there will still be buzzing. A proper inverse polarity ANC plugin like Klevgrand Brusfri is much closer to what you would need. Izotope's RX line also has similar functionality if you have the big bucks. In reality, it's a cheap mic and the price probably has quite a lot to do with the quality of the sound.

The rental cost of one wireless channel being passed between 10 performers is far below that of having wired connections at each mark and placing stage boxes in set pieces, it's not comparable and people absolutely use wireless to save money. The cost of rental on summing mixers alone for all the extra wired channels, well, I shouldn't even have to go further. That being said, this is entirely unhelpful to the OPs question. While Lav mics or Headsets are great for some applications they are not as versatile as solutions utilising studio gear

To add to the previous response, location may help too as monitor speakers often go for a steal on the used market. Personally I use a set of Tannoy Reveal 5A that I picked up for $100 (a steal) many many years ago. My general recommendations remain with tannoy, their reveal line is still pretty great with the 802 genuinely being what I'd consider studio-ready monitors. The Tannoy Gold lineup is pretty dang good too. Having said that, there are many other great choices and the used market might have a gem of a deal waiting for you.

Yeah, no, I live in a capital city and have spent more than a few years in the industry playing festivals and other shows in the area (among my other positions). Any festival where performers are static is using digital stage boxes, nothing wireless except for maybe lead vocal if they want to go walkabout. Any show with mobile performers uses wireless, sure, because they are mobile and need wireless but if a set piece is being used for BV or as a band riser it will have a stage box in it and mics on stands preset. Any set piece that is mobile and will have static performers on it will have a stage box in it and mics / stands preset, anyone with access to the right equirpment would far prefer stage boxes to dealing with the wonderful wonderful pain in the ass that is wireless. I've been involved with shows with single digit to 4 digit cast and crew numbers and my experience is quite different to yours. I've seen and been involved with shows using massive amounts of wireless but it's almost always because they don't have access to the gear they would otherwise need and they're just handing off the wireless between performers. Whenever the money / gear is available the stage boxes are in use.

Damn straight. I've spent a lot of time at live shows as a performer, engineer and viewer. As a lead I'd often have a headset mic or the equivalent for my instrument as well as an RF ears pack but whever I was static (whether that be on a band riser that moved around or on stage in one position) we were 100% going through a wired stage box. If a set piece is pushed onto stage and people perform on it, probably has a snake / stage box in it. Nobody likes RF packs and will avoid them as much as they can (unless it's absolutely necessary like it can be for leads.)

Any plans on a progress indicator or system to explain the interaction required to reach each rank?

I'm with you on the lav mic point, many lav mics are excellent butr as for headsets, by and large they suck ass. Now, I'm spoiled in that I have access to a lot of studio audio gear andhave written out extensive guides / tips in the past here to explain why USB mics and/or headsets sick but the short answer is that nothing beats the quality of studio mics. Having said that, studio mics need not be expensive as the SM7B is, personally I daily drive a Behringer C2 despite owning mics 50x the price due to 1, it's size, 2, the sound quality and 3, the ease of use. When it comes to complexity, well, take a look at the guide in my sig, you won't catch me saying that it's as simple as it is to just plug in a USB mic but that's just it, with that simplicity you lose options, you lose choice. In reality Jay's issue with the SM7B was down to a misunderstanding of the basic usage of the mic and the gain required to properly power it. Make of that what you will but I disagree strongly with many of your arguments.

Okay, so, like most interfaces the inputs are discrete meaning they are a single channel, in this case, input 1 (XLR) is left and input 2 (TRS) is right. This is industry standard. If you want it to be mono in an application that doesn't 1 - automatically downmix or 2 - support ASIO and as such records each channel as a distinct mono signal, you record it like you have where it is on the left side only and duplicate the track to the right side or set that L track to MONO. Nothing is wrong, it's working exactly as designed.

Honestly T.bone (the house brand for Thomann) has earned a place in my go-to list for mic manufacturers alongsider 3U, ADK, Stellar and Groove Tubes among others, their products are usually comparable to what it is they are emulating at a much lower price. I do, however, hate USB mics with a passion and would recommend looking at other options like the MB75 with an interface or Samson Q2U / Tbone MB88U / Audio Technica 2005 purely so that if/when the USB circuit breaks you can still fall back on the XLR though I did notice your linked mic also has XLR as an option. If that's the sort of money you're looking at spending and you really don't want an interface I would hazard a guess it performs well though I have no personal experience with the mic and am mostly basing this assumption on the reviews and my personal experience with the brand

Couple options, if the speakers have a volume knob (potentiometer) the contacts could be dirty or perhaps they're designed in a way that they do not ever truly make no noise. Turn the speaker off and turn the knob back and forwards a lot to see if that fixes any issues.

Or maybe, just maybe the UMC22 is a legacy device without support in the latest Behringer driver package and the OP should install the drivers that are compatible...

While it was acknowledged that the tests were not 'like for like' with regards to platform being that there is still a bug with AMD in W11 and the Intel had DDR5, it does look like Intel have managed to claw back into relevancy with three major caveats. 1, That power draw is killer, AMD managed singled digit differences in performance with the bug AND with less than hald the power draw so the possibilities with overclocking and/or longevity of the new chips remain to be seen. 2, Like mentioned, the cost is painful with DDR5 RAM and motherboards being widely unobtanium for a reasonable price. 3, We're only a couple of months out from Ryzen 6K so it remains to be seen the improvements that AMD has made in that time. It's good to see that intel is relevant again but unfortunately it's with an * next to it for me.

Completely agreed, You cannot hope to create an objective tier list for audio (a highly subjective field) taking all aspects into consuideration without considerable experience to help you make an accurate analysis and considerable funds to continue to purchase new products. This is one of the main reasons that I never attempted to get my mic and interface guide and recommendations pinned, because I knew full well it was my opinion adn that there was no way I was going to personally use enough gear to make the guide all-encompassing. While I believe my gear guide and the included recommendations are helpful to get the uninitiated to a point where they can make an informed decision for themselves, I find it difficult to see how this post could achieve a similar goal, it doesn't talk about the different technologies at play nor any background information to help learn anything beyond the iopinions of the OP, besides, a large portion of the list at release seemed to be products the audiophile communite tends to consider sub-par at best (airpods, Beats and the like) which makes it more difficult to take the OPs recommendations with much more than a grain of salt.

The helix line isn't too bad these days. I'd still rather use my Impulse Responses and/or guitar rig but so far as hardware goes it does a damn fine job.

1, That mic will hiss, it's a cheap mic 2, You really need to be using a preamp, simplest solution is an audio interface. 3, Read the guide in my sig for explanation

Thanks for the heads up on the documentation, I ended up able to just steal a basic row adding script and then handle the values myself, I'm currently using the code below and it's working great. // global var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive(); function onOpen() { var menu = [{name:"Split stock parcel", functionName:"addRow"}]; ss.addMenu("Split Sale", menu); } function addRow() { var sh = ss.getActiveSheet(); var cell = sh.getActiveCell(); var SelectRow = cell.getRow(); var lCol = sh.getLastColumn(), range = sh.getRange(SelectRow,5,1,1), range1 = sh.getRange(SelectRow, 9, 1, 2), range2 = sh.getRange(SelectRow,13,1,1), range3 = sh.getRange(SelectRow,16,1,4), clone = sh.getRange(SelectRow,8,1,1).getFormula(), clone1 = sh.getRange(SelectRow+1,8,1,1), range4 = sh.getRange(SelectRow+1,1,1,1), range5 = sh.getRange(SelectRow,3,1,1); sh.insertRowsAfter(SelectRow, 1); range.copyTo(sh.getRange(SelectRow+1, 5, 1, 1), {contentsOnly:false}); range1.copyTo(sh.getRange(SelectRow+1, 9, 1, 2), {contentsOnly:false}); range2.copyTo(sh.getRange(SelectRow+1, 13, 1, 1), {contentsOnly:false}); range3.copyTo(sh.getRange(SelectRow+1, 16, 1, 4), {contentsOnly:false}); range5.copyTo(sh.getRange(SelectRow+1,3,1,1),{contentsOnly:false}); clone1.setFormula(clone) range4.setValue("Split Sale") } I have quite a bit of experience with complicated google sheets forumulas but that was my first time actually coding anything and it wasn't too painful once I got the hang of it. Thanks for the help.

Hi All, Apologies for not providing more specific information about the coding itself, I'm beyond useless as a coder so don't have much further information. I have a fairly complicated (for me at least) table in a google sheets spreadsheet designed to track stock holdings over financial years (it also includes calculations for cost base adjustments and capital gains). The table functions in two halves, the left side details the purchase including price, amount purchased and dates where the right relates to disposal of stock. I am trying to allow for calculations where the entire purchase order is not disposed of at the same time, IE, if 15 are purchased but only 4 are sold with the further 11 to be sold at a later time a row should be added to allow for further calculations of gains on the remaining 11. The easiest to read way I can see this being implemented is if a formula / script can read the number sold and if below the purchase amount, add a row below, filling the appropriate values where required to allow for further calculation. Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea how to get this to work. Is there a function within Google sheets to allow for adding of rows based on the values of a cell? if so would I be able to also have it fill the appropriate formulas for the table to allow for appropriate calculation? As an example of what I'm hoping for, in this image is a sample of the table currently (though obviously there are many more rows), if K8 < D8 having another row added below prefilling formulas and values from row 8 with the exception of columns A B C D F G K L N and O which may be left blank and column H which should prefill as the value of H8 rather than the underlying formula. I've looked into this stackoverflow thread which is concerning adding a number of rows based on the value of a cell, however, my usecase is complicated by the inclusion of formulas and values from the original row. Being that it's in table form it would need to be able to be applied selectively to each and every row if required. I know this is very niche and assuming it's even possible, if anyone were to have any suggestions on where to even start looking, youtube videos or whatnot it would be greatly appreciated. I'm not expecting someone to have pre-written code I could just copy but if anyone knows functions I could be using and resources for learning the basics of scripting for Google Sheets so I can have a go myself it would be a massive help. Many thanks.

I mean, Audio interfaces generally won't have a mixer built in like the goxlr being that they're designed for studio use and the mixer is a novelty at best, the shortcut of WIN+G is far more versatile anyways. So far as the rest goes, an interface is a DAC and all but the worst will have provision for using both speakers and headphones concurrently, that's exactly what they're designed for.

Bluetooth speaker does has audio delay issues.

Mate, we don't have to google or search everything on Ebay for you, I'm sure you could go to ebay and search "halo streaming light" If you are looking for other options for mics/interfaces I have a guide linked in my signature.

Just add compression, that's all you need, from memory there's inbuilt compression in Discord but if that doesn't work well enough use voicemeeter and a compression plugin.

Can I ask why? 8D Austio or any of those other fads just mess with the mixing (panning mostly) whart was completed by the engineer on the project. Your output device will greatly impact your perception of the audio so it's likely the headphones you're using but to be completely honest, you can do it yourself to any song by sticking it into Reaper and automating Sennheiser AMBIO to spin around.