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Microphone recommendations (plus a boom arm and pop screen)

Cereal5
By Cereal5
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Hey LTT,

 

Recently been looking to upgrade either my headphones or my mic (i currently use a turtle beach headset) so I decided to upgrade my mic first and my headset later to a nice pair of headphones. I don't know a whole lot about mics in general - brands, modes, usb vs whatever-other-kind-of-connector-there-is - but I was hoping I could get some direction from here. I liked the sound of the Editors Keys SL600 until I saw it was $300. The Audio-Technica AT2020 looks like a much better pick at $100 and also sounds pretty good. I would use it for streaming and youtube videos only pretty much.

 

1. Is it reasonable to expect to get a good mic under $100?

2. How about an arm/screen, how much are those?

 

 

Thanks :)

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$100 is the minimum for decent microphones IMO. I have a Blue Yeti and I LOVE it especially since it's USB and I don't have to run it through my interface. For convince I'd say the Yeti but the Yeti and AT2020 sound very similar. I was not disappointed in the Yeti though


EDIT: Also the Yeti has controls for pick up pattern and gain which is a plus, as well as a headphone jack 

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