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Need help finding a good microphone.

Hello, I am looking for a better mic than what I have now, which is an antlion mod mic 6 attached to my AT M50X headphones, I'm looking for something that is extremely clear and won't pick up keyboard/mouse sounds, and I do not know a whole lot about microphones, is there a way to make them not pick up keyboard/mice sounds, or does it just depend on the microphone, or is there like a processing software for microphones real time? It must be a standalone microphone that I can either attach to my headphones (Preferred) or I guess a Mic boom, but I don't want it getting in my way. Thank you for your time.

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You could get a Blue Yeti and tape it to your forehead or headphones. It worked for me. . .

. . .kind of.

I ended up ripping out some of my hair each time I took my headphones off my head due to the duck tape sticking to my hair. Now I'm permanently bald.

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1 hour ago, Kaicer said:

You could get a Blue Yeti and tape it to your forehead or headphones. It worked for me. . .

. . .kind of.

I ended up ripping out some of my hair each time I took my headphones off my head due to the duck tape sticking to my hair. Now I'm permanently bald.

That isn't quite the solution that I am looking for. I'm interested in a mic that can either be mounted on a stand, or a wearable mic possibly,the best would be a mic I can attatch to my headphones via like a magnet like the modmic, its quality just isn't good enough though and picks up keyboard noise. It's honestly all about the audio quality and not picking up my mechanical keyboard or mouse clicking/other background noise.

CPU: Intel i7 6950x  Motherboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB 3000MHZ. GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 TI X2 SLI

 

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18 minutes ago, bigpak said:

That isn't quite the solution that I am looking for. I'm interested in a mic that can either be mounted on a stand, or a wearable mic possibly,the best would be a mic I can attatch to my headphones via like a magnet like the modmic, its quality just isn't good enough though and picks up keyboard noise. It's honestly all about the audio quality and not picking up my mechanical keyboard or mouse clicking/other background noise.

I have yet to find a mic like that . all I can tell you are yeti's and snowballs andbut basically any mic you have will pick up a mechanical keyboard.  berst you can do is put the mic in front of your face a close as possible and use a mixer or voice meeter and set it so ythe mic isn't picking up your keyboard. or grab linerar key switches and add o rings but that would not feel great. 

 

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The downside to clacky keyboards is they're.... well.... clacky. Even a highly directional microphone would pick up the keyboard, and god himself couldn't make a microphone that would pick up your voice but not mx blues. Honestly, ModMic is about as good as it gets for a mic that will be resistant to picking up keyboard sounds and being out of your way.

 

I got tired of having to put magnets on all of my headphones (plus slapping a magnet on my vintage cans didn't sit well with me), so I just bit the bullet and went with mic boom and the mic between me and my keyboard. Annoying as hell initially, but now I barely notice it.

I'm pretty sure my purpose in life is to serve as a warning for others.

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