What I'm actually thinking about now is a USB mixer. I know they exist, but don't know a lot about them to be honest. I believe some of them have MIDI controllers in-built as well which might work with some software. But my primary concern is the hardware mixing. Anybody happen to know of a USB mixer which has hardware controls rather than doing everything via software? I'll do a Google search on that microphone, see if I can find out anything about it. Is this a USB microphone? The Logitech 5370 isn't exactly what I would term top of the range, and I have a couple of little gripes with it. For instance, the annoying clicks when you cycle the unit on/off during a recording. That would have been a very useful function if the switch were dampened or silenced. I believe most or all Logitech desktop microphones have that problem. At least, all those I have seen suffer from it.
On 4 Feb 2013, at 02:39, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: Nice! The mic I want to get when I save for it is a hyle pr 300. It sound s a lot like a mic I love but can't afford as it's like $5000. lol The hyle is around $2-300 which is in my budget range. That paired with th eportabooth pro and new board that I plan to get this year will help a lot in my own recordings. There must be a better way to mute the mic like through your broadcast software that way you can mute it out that way and then press the switch so no one hears the click. lol! I'm glad you got your mic solved and goo duck with broadcasting. On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > This morning I received the new microphone which Lynne ordered for me from > Amazon a couple of days ago. We had looked around all of the shops in our > local retail park on Thursday morning and, unbelievable though it may seem, > not a single one of them stocked anything like what I was looking for. A > couple of them tried very hard to sell us bog-standard dynamic microphones > which, in all but one case, were nothing more than little plastic sticks with > a small microphone on the end. They had little round stands and a 3.5MM jack > plug terminator. > > When we got home, Lynne went on line and she managed to find one store on > Amazon where a quality Logitech microphone was available, and even they only > had one of them in stock. So, although the £39.99 price tag may seem a > little excessive to some, she ordered that last microphone and it arrived, as > I said, this morning. > > I have just given it a try, having been busy on other projects all day. It > is a Logitech A5370 model, and the quality is absolutely superb. It's a > uni-directional microphone with a nice solid crome stand. The only odd thing > about it is the on/off audio switch. I would have expected the switch to > have been something like a rocker with an anti-click mechanism. But no, it's > a press button which emits a clunking sound when pressed. At least, that's > what you hear when you make recordings. The even more strange thing is that > when the button is in the depressed position, the audio is turned off, and > when not depressed, it is on. That may be standard, but I must admit it > strikes me as a little strange. > > However, that is a very small price to pay indeed for the quality of the > microphone. The frequency response is excellent, and, in my tests, it > responds very well to the mid-range frequencies which you would expect it too > for the human voice. But at the same time, it respons exceptionally well to > the high frequency sounds over the 1800 KHZ range. I tested between 0.5 KHz > and 3.5 KHz. There is a marked curve when you get right to the top of the > range, and also right at the bottom. But for the purposes it was designed > for, I would classify its responses as excellent. > > So, that would appear to resolve the issue I have had for quite some time. > Although I do have a very good quality portable Sony microphone which clips > on to the lapel or collar of a shirt or jacket, that microphone is dynamic > and it doesn't function with any of the sound cards I tried except the > Griffin Technologies iMic. I could possibly have used that, but the quality > isn't good enough for the purposes I wanted it for, as in Internet > broadcasting and the recording of interviews, Skype based and also round > table. > > So now, on top of everything else, I need to get to work producing my voice > track files for use with my playout software. 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