I don't know what others use, but I use a Shure SM58. It's your run of the mill stage mic. It's 20 years old and still works fine.

Thought of you guys.

Alright people, I might have another story lined up. Been talking to an author friend of mine and he's currently working on a 5000-7000 word short story featuring 7-8 characters that he intends to have finished sometime end of next week or mid the following week. In his words, it's:

"It's a Kung Fu fantasy cloaked in a steam punk setting, cloaked in a film noir detective story."

So yeah. I'm pumped. If you wanna get in on this action, either in voice acting, music or graphics, lemme know.

Kung Fu Noir?

That's all I needed to hear.

Whatever I can do to help, you got me.

Of course I'm in. Voice acting.

Seriously need to get a decent mic 

Samson CO3U USB mike has served me well for 6 years, altho I broke the plastic mount 5.75 years ago and had to wire it together. The CO1U is almost the same and a bit cheaper.

Others swear by the Blue Snoball or the Blue Yeti.

However, if you think you'll ever want to record two or more people at once, consider XLR mikes and a little mixing board.

Last edited by Zarban (2013-09-08 16:56:35)

Knowing absolutely nothing about this, what happens if you get just an XLR to 3.5mm cable and run it into the mic input on your soundcard?  They seem to cost about £5 from Amazon, which brings the whole thing to about half the price of the cheapest USB mics mentioned.  I'd definitely be up for it if you need an extra hand on the voice acting side, but I'm completely sans equipment and experience.

I love my blue yeti. That is all.

Wow.  Now THAT's a turnout... and a quick one at that. Kudos, you guys.

I'm not 100% sure how many characters there'll be in the story, but let me start the roster of volunteers nao (in chronological order):

Graphics
1. BigDamnArtist

Voice Acting
1. drewjmore
2. Rob
3. fireproof78
4. Tomahawk
5. BigDamnArtist

Anyone else game?

They do fine. Quality is alright, but in my experience, you'll get just as good results by using a smartphone. They pick up too much noise, and since they're processed by the internals of a computer, they pick up that noise, too. Also, their levels will spike quite easily.

If I had to guess, I'd think the Guitar Hero mic would be better than a laptop mic. But I have no idea what the internals of a GH mic are like.

Ideally, lowest noise and highest quality possible are what I'm shooting for. That being said, it can be surprising how decent low cost, low tech solutions can be.