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Looking for a good mic for about £40.

Want it for Teamspeak as well as some streaming.

 

I am currently using a modmic 4.0 but it just has terrible background noise, even when all the fans in my pc are turned off it sounds like there's a banshee screaming down it.

 

I don't know how Linus recorded his modmic 4.0 review but mine sounds nothing like it.

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Can you mess around with gain I wonder.

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I have it set to 80% and +10dB or people can't hear me.

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Are you sure it's your fans and not static? A lot of people have been having problem with static with the modmic because of the onboard audio. A $10 usb adapter usually fixes it. 

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Are you sure it's your fans and not static? A lot of people have been having problem with static with the modmic because of the onboard audio. A $10 usb adapter usually fixes it. 

It is static, I even turned my fans off to test it and it was still there.

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It is static, I even turned my fans off to test it and it was still there.

Get this. The static should be gone with this. 

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/USB2-0-External-Quality-Channel-Adapter/dp/B003ZM0XIY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426432146&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+sound+card

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