Microphone?

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BUDFORCE

BUDFORCE

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Hi guys,

Anyone recommend me a microphone, I fancy sending the money OCUK's way, so if it's one they sell on their website that's ideal.

Doesnt have to be anything special, not professionally recording or anything like that, its just for gaming and general use for chatting.

I have one, but it really REALLY cheap and the quality isnt great thought it would be time to get a new one. So whilst I don't need a fancy one, one steop up from cheap and basic might be good.

Cheers
 
Maybe better to combine this with a headset upgrade if you have that on the horizon? It doesn't sound like you need a desk mic or the faff that it might then include.
 
I like the Elgato ones. Personally prefer condenser so I don't have be locked into the same position all the time. The Elgato software is really good.
 
Zefan said:
Maybe better to combine this with a headset upgrade if you have that on the horizon? It doesn't sound like you need a desk mic or the faff that it might then include.
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Yeah I'd agree with this for the most part - If not recording, a semi-decent headset mic is fine. I use a kraken v3 for work calls and it's absolutely fine, even hearing myself back on recorded meetings (which I bought just because I was having issues with the headphone port on my work laptop and as it was USB, it side-stepped that).
And with any desktop mic it's going to pick up extra noise from the desk/keyboard.

Straz said:
I like the Elgato ones. Personally prefer condenser so I don't have be locked into the same position all the time. The Elgato software is really good.
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It's a trade off, condenser does give you more freedom in terms of position, but also picks up more background noise (although using AMD/NV noise reduction does help quite a bit), while dynamic is mostly more directional.

For my gaming PC I use a USB audio interface (Behringer 302Xynix) and even with a VERY cheap steelseries gaming headset, my friends said it sounded orders of magnitude better than just running in straight into the PC ports. Now using it with a fairly cheap XLR condenser mic on an arm and it sounds great (considering the background noise mentioned above).

If I was buying a new mic now, it's almost certainly be dynamic - almost all streamers use dynamic mics (mainly the Shure SM7B, but plenty of other good ones available for less than £350-400 :D )
 
The Trust Gaming GXT 258 Fyru can be had for less than £20 and it's on par with much higher end products.

I've had one for awhile now and highly recommend it. I'd argue that it's on par with much more expensive Blue Yeti USB variants and it's my day to day for voice comms.
 
The Trust that Grey recommends seems very good for the price, another that just popped into my head was the NEAT Bumblebee (v2 version is around £30)

I would still say though, that I'd prefer either a headset or something on an arm with a shockmount - You can get an arm for about £10-20, and the bumblebee can definitely be mounted to one, not sure about the Fyru
 
If you use push to talk for gaming, so the mic isn't 'on' all the time... I got a decent one on the rainforest.. It's pretty nifty and neat just plugged into the rear of my keyboard on a little flexible stalk.

The problem with buying mics for PC is a lot seem to be professional studio style mics which are expensive and big and cumbersome to match!
 
I got that one off OCUK as linked above it's fine.

I got the one with the large mounting arm thing which is dead handy.

I didn't want to get a headset as I have a reasonably posh set of wired AKG headphones and amp/dac already. You need good headphones for PUBG.
 
Yeh I hate headphones for gaming.. So I have all the sound coming out of my speakers, like normal but have a small mic on push to talk, as no one likes feedback or hearing my heavy breathing constantly so this works for me, as I can press a designated keyboard key whilst I'm talking and release it to immediately mute the mic.
 
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