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Sub $110 Condenser Microphone

Lehcs
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I'm looking at condenser microphones but i'm not sure what to do. The microphone on my HyperX Cloud is poo, as well as my Logitech G930 headset. Both of the mentioned headsets record audio VERY quiet and microphone boosting pisses me off to no end. I'm leaning toward the ATR-2500 but I hear there is a 1/2 second delay in the audio, which is worrying considering I play competitive games and 1/2 seconds is a huge hindrance if I'm trying to communicate with my teammates. If anyone has the ATR-2500 or the AT-2020 let me know what you think of it using it while gaming and if you notice a delay. What do?

 

I'm not sure if this is the right sub forum for this but i couldn't find anything better.

Edit; I forgot to mention I hate how the Blue Snowball looks. I would rather take a sledgehammer to my monitor than use that ugly POS.

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http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Yeti-USB-Microphone/dp/B002VA464S

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i realize this seems like the obvious choice but i feel like its slightly overpriced also its enormous lol.

it's just the stand that's big and it's not overpriced. http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT2020-USB-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B001AS6OYC usb at2020 costs more.

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As @ZetZet said the blue yeti the simply the best for that price. You can also get a stand in which this mic fits (Don't ask me about specifics because I do not know :P) so you can have it close to your mouth without the stand being right in front of you but a bit more to the side of your face.

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I have the blue yeti its a great mic

 

I have mine on a mic stand with a pop filter, one of the best mics you can get for that price anywhere

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I have the blue yeti its a great mic

 

I have mine on a mic stand with a pop filter, one of the best mics you can get for that price anywhere

Do you have a picture of your yeti setup with the stand? That's something I'm interested in doing. I guess I'm just hesitant because the ATR2500 is $40 cheaper and seemingly the same quality. Only problem is the latency. Basically I don't want to spend all of my money if I don't need to.

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Do you have a picture of your yeti setup with the stand? That's something I'm interested in doing. I guess I'm just hesitant because the ATR2500 is $40 cheaper and seemingly the same quality. Only problem is the latency. Basically I don't want to spend all of my money if I don't need to.

 

There would be no latency on a microphone, one feature I like about the yeti is that it has a headphone monitoring port, and more importantly you can set the yeti as your speaker output so you can hear game audio AND monitoring audio (in real time) through the headphone jack on the yeti!!!!

 

 

here are a few  photos of how I have had it set up , I always have my headphones plugged into the bottom

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