What is the best microphone for recording / streaming games?

[CyberFern0]

Regardless of price

 

I’m looking for one that has the best voice quality and has almost no background noice.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I've heard good things about Blue Yeti.

 

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[CyberFern0]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've heard good things about Blue Yeti.

 

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Is it better than the AT2035?

[CyberFern0]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've heard good things about Blue Yeti.

 

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The problem with it is that it has an awful lot of background noise.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, CyberFern0 said:

The problem with it is that it has an awful lot of background noise.

Ah. I unfortunately don't know much about this kind of stuff, I'm just repeating what I've heard lol.

 

[Max_Settings]

Regardless of price then we are getting into several thousand dollar mics.

[HunterScott]

3 minutes ago, CyberFern0 said:

The problem with it is that it has an awful lot of background noise.

I don't have any issues with background noise on my Blue Yeti.

[CyberFern0]

Ok what do y’all think of the AT2035?

[BryceJonathan]

Just now, CyberFern0 said:

Ok what do y’all think of the AT2035?

I have an AT2020 myself and love it because of good sound quality and it basically doesnt pick up any background noise, the at2035 just has a bit better sound quality so it is my recommendation until you start spending near $1000 then Shure has some really nice mics that I would recommend. 

[RoyalGamer1]

mod mic 3 hands down

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32 minutes ago, CyberFern0 said:

The problem with it is that it has an awful lot of background noise.

It does not have an "awful lot".  It has a noticeable but very low noise floor.  Yes a dedicated XLR mic with a good interface, totalling $200+ will be better, but they also cost a lot more.  I'm not sure where you heard this but I wouldn't be surprised if they were mistaking the ambient sound in their room for "noise", because it is very good as picking up the whole room.  Whether you want that or not is another story, but it's not a defect.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

a good soundcard would do ya much better then running an expensive mic on a shitty soundcard for noise reduction ect :v

 

in the end if u want good audio u need both a good soundcard + mic o,o god u dont wanna no how crap the quality is on my onboard maximus vi hero ( n that one has quite good onboard audio ) compared to a soundblaster recon 3d champion

[Ahoy Hoy]

You can get good background noise rejection by putting the microphone near your mouth.

 

just go look at streamers or youtubers or whatever. You will see the people with the boom stands and the microphone two inches away from there mouth have hardly any background noise. Look at the ones with snowballs on their little stand or razer siren all like 3 feet away all you get is background noise.

 

Mics under 100 are normally not that good. Then there is a stage between 100 and 300 where the quality doesn't drastically improve between them but they are a million times better than the 100 microphones.

 

If its over 100 from a decent audio company and you're going to have it less then 6 inches away from your mouth it will have very little background noise, as long as the room your in isn't stupidly loud.