Out of these three, which sounds best?

See attachment. Three sections repeating the same thing with three different microphones in my office.

I will tell you the specifics on each microphone later after people make some votes.

Mike

Number 2 was awful!

I would suggest getting a Yeti, alternatively a Snowball, from Blue Microphones.

#1 then #3 (1 & 3 were close) then #2

revtrader 

#1 then #3 (1 & 3 were close) then #2

Same here, #1 and #3 then #2, and #1 and #3 are close, but a small echo with #3.

1) #1
2) #3
3) #2

#3 has a little more low end than #1 but's it's missing some of the low mids. It also has more of a tinny sound
predominately seen at around 2-4kHz in the male voice.

I think #1 has the most even frequency response out of the 3 microphones.

In all the webinars I've viewed on futures.io (formerly BMT) I always thought your mic (during the introduction) was much better than the presenter's in most cases. Some sound like they're broadcasting from a cell phone in a port-a-potty!

I vote for 1 then 3 ........ was wondering if you're using a pop filter?

I will share all the details after some more people share their impressions.

I also have a 4th mic that will be here Monday that I will add to the lineup for testing. Then decisions to be made about which one to keep, and which to return or ebay.

Mike

#1 and #3 were very similar, nice warm tone with just a hint of echo, #2 sounded like a very poor response mic but no echo..

Big Mike 

Out of these three, which sounds best? See attachment. Three sections repeating the same thing with three different microphones in my office. I will tell you the specifics on each microphone later after people make some votes. Mike

I took part of your original mic #1 and recorded it as is. I also took that
and put it through a, I think, a high pass filter, in a free program called Audacity.
The second version doesn't sound great, but is just an example of what can
be done to make what you have already, sound a little better.

The link should show you that you can remove all that bass with some software.

Unfortunately I don't know what software to tell you to use since you are dealing
with making videos.Audacity only deals with mp3, wav. etc which I didn't know till just now.

There must be something out there though, for altering audio in videos???

original and altered.mp3 - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download




Never used this site before. If it doesn't work let me know.


- Stephen

This is funny. I have hearing loss from cupping my ear to my shoulder during live fire, but for someone like me, #2 is by far better. haha...