Generally, a good sound for videos important, almost the most important thing, because there is nothing more annoying. As bad sound in videos Seeking as currently for the perfect solution. Not take place for the recordings on the PC I have the Rode Smartlav brought me to the one produced quite good results. 100% satisfied, I'm not having this solution yet, but I'll probably have to specify equipment which is clearly considerably more expensive, so that will still have time.
For the setting on the PC I've just taken the internal Mac speakers, but that's supoptimal. First, the sound quality is not so super good, the other is the fan noise when the fan is working, with added. That's a No, of course. The tone sounds like an out of the garbage.
I shut my Samson meteorites on already sounds the sound noticeably better, but my feeling for still a little like the garbage. I'm afraid now though, that this is primarily due to my voice. It is highly modular and has the pitch or volume has when I talk normally and when I lecture something very large variations that the trace has large eruptions. To find a microphone that comes with it clear seems not so easy. An internal level control does not seem to be present or not to be optimal
As has already written another reviewer, the sound quality is CLEARLY better if the microphone is about 10 cm away from your mouth. However, this is in the normal application virtually impossible because that microphone is a small round ball on a magnetic holder. The USB cable is clearly too short for my taste for a micro and should quietly be twice as long. Has anyone normal position, ie directly in front of him on the table is not the best recording quality.
To improve this, who you the mic either it is somewhere, so it is right in front of the mouth, or if one leans down and speaks directly into the microphone, which is certainly no one to do because it is so for at least 5 minutes you will have back pain.
Good on the other hand, that the microphone is working. Simply unpack, connect via USB to select and record as an input source in the system settings. Even the Mac no problem!
Thus, the bottom line for me is:
For Skype etc you do not need the microphone, if you have a Macbook because the voice quality compared to the built-in microphone is not so much improved for these applications, it would be worth it.
In videos where it really matters already on the finer points, you already notice a difference, but in my case only a slight. If you do not have a microphone or just an extremely bad internal, this may be a solution, so you can Skype good example or for TeamSpeak, if you are not a fan of headsets.
For really good semi-professional recordings, this microphone is not suitable at all in my opinion.
This is in view of the price, of course, no surprise. A 35 micro can not bring the performance of a 200 micros easily.
So thinking well, what do you need this microphone, whether it is sufficient for your application, or if you prefer not to even saves something and something higher quality and better buys.
