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Topic: Microphones
Tim Tibbetts
Posts: 1455
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I'm trying to buy a microphone that can cannect to a PC and record stuff. It needs to be able to sit in the middle of a table somewhere and be able to pick up voices from probably 3-5 metres away easily and with decent clarity.

Any ideas? I've been looking around and all I can say is I wish we had Radio Shack!
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Eds
Posts: 7842
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Condenser mic is what your after. I dont know of any cheap ones but jaycar will have something
Tim Tibbetts
Posts: 1456
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Thats Eds - Jaycar had one for about $44, going to grab it and see what it's like..ta.
`ViPER`
Posts: 135
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
any mic u run through the mic in on your sound card is going to sound crap, basically becuase the mic pre-amp in your pc is pretty average.

depends what you are actualy using it for i guess.
Eds
Posts: 7843
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
My guess is its just vocal stuff, maybe like a meeting or something, which would sound pretty good. Thats just my guess tho :P
Hardball, Billy
Posts: 5137
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
You could pay a couple of hundred for a condenser mic for your PC and it's still going to sound s***. I once made the mistake of getting a Sony one for around $250 and it was terrible.

If you just need it for transcripts or something similar (nothing professional) a crappy $10 desktop mic from microsoft will work.
Astroboy
Posts: 3284
Location: Germany
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Tim Tibbetts
Posts: 1458
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
It's just going to be for voice - that being said I don't want it to sound s***ty either...I guess I'll find out in a week or so when it arrives - eep!
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