When your head’s hurting due to badly made earpieces or a hard little headband, then you’ll fidget and lose concentration. I’ve used some pretty uncomfortable headset microphones over the past few years, and it does have an effect on your Podcast quality. I’ll be commenting on how well they’re made and the quality of their components, hoping to refine the list down to long-lasting USB headsets. There’s little point in having a great sounding headset mic if it falls apart after 3 recording sessions. Having said that, there are other things that we look for in good headsets. That’s the main yardstick by which each podcast headset will be judged, as that’s what we’re looking to deliver in the final product: our podcast. In this showdown, I’m looking primarily at audio quality. What Are We Looking for in a Good Headset Microphone?
We like to keep these roundups up-to-date, and Matthew has recently tested a few more USB headsets, which have been thrown into the mix below. I want to provide a bit of my own input into what I think of them, and I’ll provide an audio sample from each so that you can judge for yourself. In this article, I’m aiming to review some of the best USB headsets on the market. 8 of the Best USB Headset Microphones for Podcasting Achieving that aim will put you far ahead of those with much better kit, but less regular content. This means you’ll be putting out your weekly episode with ease and regularity. You can record new episodes in no time, with no barriers. Overall, they’re always connected, and always easy. They even take care of your mic technique for you, since the mic follows your head, no matter where you move. This combined form means they’re super easy to use, they’re generally pretty inexpensive, and they serve double duty by being great tools for recording a remote call or using .Įven better, USB headset mics generally require little to no extra gear, like a mic stand or extra cables. To be clear, that means a headset with mic attached via a little arm, so the microphone sits to the side of your mouth. To this end, I think one of the best ways into podcasting is to get yourself a good USB headset microphone. To a beginner, it puts up barriers, lengthens the recording process and makes it pretty likely you’ll never get into the swing of releasing regular content. And, to me, complexity gets in the way of ‘just doing it’ as our tick-based sporting friends would say. While this can result in really excellent audio quality, it also introduces a whole load of complexity. Too many people dive in headfirst, spending a whole lot of money on digital recorders, XLR mics and mixers, creating a home studio of their own to boost their podcasting efforts. When it comes to starting out in Podcasting, I’m a big fan of the ‘start small’ approach. TLDR: Just Take Me to Your Best USB Headset Recommendations Our roundup will help you find the one most suited to you, so read on…
Here we look at some of the best USB headset microphones on the market for podcasting, YouTube, or call recording. From online calls to recording a podcast, a headset can get you up and running in minutes, and requires no stand and little mic technique.
On the physical machine, when using the view client, when I click the "Connect USB" dropdown at the top of the screen I can see the headset OK.A good USB headset microphone is the simplest, easiest way to start recording your voice. I did notice that the VM did not have a (virtual hardware) USB Controller, so I added one in and rebooted, but no luck. I have tried RDP and PCOIP, but the result is the same - it appears that the VM cannot detect the headset as a microphone. On the physical machine the headset appears in thie "Playback" tab and I can test it an see that it is fine. Howver, under the "Recording" tab, there is nothing. When I go into the control panel on the virtual machine, I can see the "playback" device - they appear as "Speakers - VMware Virtual Audio DevTap". However, on the virtual machine, only the earphones work. I can go into the control panel and successfully test the earphones and microphone. I have a USB headset attached to the physical computer, bi-directional sound is OK, i.e.
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I am connecting to a virtual Windows 7 Enterprise machine, I can use either RDP or PCOIP. I have a physical Windows 7 Enterprise machine with the View Client installed.
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