Hello everyone, I'm at the point where I'm willing to spend a bit of money and get myself a decent mic. A USB mic would be ideal for me, as I'm using a PC to record, however I wasn't sure about the dip in quality choosing USB over an XLR microphone? In particular, these two:

http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/c-03u/70862
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/cl-8/70863

Choosing the phantom powered microphone would mean having to splash out for a mixer as well, which I don't mind doing, it's just if the increase in quality was miniscule, it'd be needlessly fiddly. I'd be using it to record 'metal' vocals, so obviously it's not like I need the crystal clarity of an opera singer's solo album. Which should I get?

Cheers.

Surgery wrote:

Hello everyone, I'm at the point where I'm willing to spend a bit of money and get myself a decent mic. A USB mic would be ideal for me, as I'm using a PC to record, however I wasn't sure about the dip in quality choosing USB over an XLR microphone? In particular, these two: http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/c-03u/70862 http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/cl-8/70863 Choosing the phantom powered microphone would mean having to splash out for a mixer as well, which I don't mind doing, it's just if the increase in quality was miniscule, it'd be needlessly fiddly. I'd be using it to record 'metal' vocals, so obviously it's not like I need the crystal clarity of an opera singer's solo album. Which should I get? Cheers.

I'd go for the mixer and XLR, then you are not restricted to only using a computer.
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Agreed, you will have a lot more options and if you happen to really like the way the microphone sounds then you can bring it to a professional studio if you choose to record professionally(if the sound engineer approves, some are very finnicky when it comes to microphone usage).
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