I’m onto my 3rd Podcaster and it’s the best thing that has happened to me in 35 years as announcer at the Seven network. I have a spare at the office and one that travels with me everywhere. I have recorded tags and commercials in the car out the front of my daughter’s school and even in the baby change room at the airport.
For podcasting, I strongly prefer dynamic microphones over condensers. Both can work if used properly, but in the end you'll generally have an easier time with dynamics.
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As long as I can get a Telstra signal on the laptop then I can be “In the Studio” to record and send a WAV. This is without question the most important and useful tool in my audio kit, and I thank you for allowing me the freedom to spend time with my family as the days of having to dash into the booth at Seven or to rock into one of the affiliates studios when on holidays are gone. Calibre is a free audio library for the blind with nearly 20000 members. We have 8000 titles in the library and we add about 400 a year.
Half are bought in commercial audio books but the other 200 are the ones we need the Podcasters for. We have over 60 professional and semi-professional volunteers working from their homes who read the books into Sony SoundForge Home Studio on laptops and they nearly all use your mics and anglepoise stands. We did extensive trials on a number of mics. We chose yours for quality and ease of use. The 10 year guarantee gave us a lot of comfort too.
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I was pretty hesitant to spend more than $50 on a mic (yes, I'm a complete newbie at audio work) but this thing installed on my machine (Windows 7) within a few seconds of plugging in the USB cable - no prompting or questions asked. I fired up my audio recorder and did a few test runs. CRYSTAL CLEAR. So much better than the smaller external mics I had been playing with! I've got roughly a dozen hours recored now and they're all going to be uploaded to the web soon - all sounding very professional! I got the mic about a month ago. First I was VERY impressed with the quality of construction.
This thing is built like a tank. Its bigger and heavier than I imagined it would be. You will need a very sturdy stand for it. Once I started using it I was just as impressed with the quality of the sound coming out of it. The real time monitoring feature is very handy. For the price, it is the BEST mic for amateur podcasters, screencasters, etc. And the for the price you get everything you need for a professionally quality mic.
If you need a great sounding mic for narration or other voice-over work, and don't want to spend a lot of time with processors, then try this mic. I've used a ton of different mics over the years, and if money were no object, I would have purchased one of the Neumann broadcast models.
But since I was on a tight budget for a current project and needed something fast, I thought I'd give this one a shot, knowing it would at least be good enough for a decent recording that could be processed further. To my surprise, the sound quality was great with no upfront processing. And very little post processing. Since time is valuable, this is a wonderful find!