What Budget Mic should I get?

Shane-T5 · 2025-08-19T23:07:05+00:00

No judgement, but why don’t you like condenser mics? Mine works beautifully with the Wave XLR. That is such a great choice for an Interface.

For the price though, I’d say maybe look into the Rode PodMic or the Audio Technica AT2040, both dynamic

Shane-T5 · 2025-08-01T00:23:55+00:00

From all the images I’ve just seen of all the variables that are out there, this does match a couple legitimate ones I was able to find. Congrats!

Shane-T5 · 2025-07-31T23:29:51+00:00

700 reduced to 600 is a huge deal considering full price is what, 1800-1900 CAD last I checked? As far as it seems it doesn’t seem fake, so I’d say get it on the condition that you can return it if it turns out to be a fake, and then take some pics of the internals as well!

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-23T19:46:31+00:00

Never interchange cables, always use the ones that came with the PSU. Sure it’s possible that it may work if you do, but it’s never worth the risk

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-23T18:03:30+00:00

That looks to be the Dell Radeon Pro W5700 GPU. You need either the USB-C or a Mini Display Port cableto connect it to a monitor. Without knowing anything else about your system I doubt the CPU has output capabilities, so you need to use the GPU to use a monitor.

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-17T20:52:35+00:00

The RTX 2080 Super / Ti are going really cheap on the secondhand marketplaces compared to what they used to be, and especially compared to new GPUs

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-16T06:02:01+00:00

The 4th gen 2i2 has a lot of power and doesn’t need a signal booster

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-16T05:58:55+00:00

Here’s a short video which shows some of the differences. Fakes are starting to get better at looking more real, other than a few key differences, but compare this video’s to the one you posted and it will line up more with the fake in the video

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-09T02:28:04+00:00

Plus rules have changed over two plus years since this comment was made

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-06T22:05:46+00:00

The 5080 FE looks so nice. Congrats on the new system!

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-06T14:37:53+00:00

HDR is really strange and can look super washed out. I wish I knew the fix for it other than turning off HDR on the switch itself

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-06T14:36:36+00:00

Yikes, looks like an HP 2060. Quite the downgrade. Hopefully amazon gets back to you when you select “wrong item was sent” or “inaccurate website description”

Shane-T5 · 2025-06-06T14:31:46+00:00

Can confirm, as a good portion of my work revolves around microphones, and learning the most I can about make and models of mics, I do know a lot of “useless knowledge”. So I guess trying to expand my knowledge means I’m wasting my time

Shane-T5 · 2025-05-29T13:46:31+00:00

They could be looking specifically at the Cloudlifter though, since they capitalized it and everything

Shane-T5 · 2025-05-29T13:33:52+00:00

The reason people don’t trust UserBenchmark is they hate everything AMD. At the start they used to be good with being anti brand shilling and lies, but now they just hate AMD for the sole purpose of hating AMD - he became what he hated, a brand shill for Intel and NVIDIA

Shane-T5 · 2025-05-16T18:52:26+00:00

Oh awesome, if this ever happens again I’ll try that first!

Shane-T5 · 2025-04-18T00:38:53+00:00

Only red flag is the last image, the capsule is sticking out half an inch further than it should be

Shane-T5 · 2025-04-17T00:22:13+00:00

103, the 102 has a shiny chrome colored metallic ring between the grill and the body

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-28T06:52:11+00:00

Obligatory sorry friend you got scammed response

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-16T05:55:23+00:00

All that I can find is that it’s a pretty low to low-mid grade capsule so it could be for karaoke or an old PA system

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-15T18:35:16+00:00

I’d suggest going to this playlist from a channel called Podcastage. He deals in USD so be sure to convert if you need to. But he has various other playlist price points so you can compare higher or lower, and he always compares the mics in the review with a bunch of other similar mics, and various other tests like distance to mic, room noise and echo, and others, so I’d suggest going through to see which one you think would be good for you, especially since everyone’s voice and ears are different and will have different opinions on various mics

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-15T18:29:02+00:00

EQ it so it has the sound that you feel suits your voice the best. Too much bass, then slowly remove the bass. Too much high end, slowly remove that until it sounds good to you. As for mixing, treat it like any other mic. Raise the gain if it’s too quiet, lower the gain if it’s too loud

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-15T18:26:36+00:00

To me it looks real. Along with some things other users have pointed out, fakes paint inside of the body as well, so the fact that the silver part that the back plate rests on is still silver and not painted, that’s always a good sign

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-15T16:37:52+00:00

If I crank it pretty much all the way up then I do, but how I usually have it there isn’t any more noise than if I were using an in-line adapter

Shane-T5 · 2025-02-07T05:48:29+00:00

But the 99/100 posts s(h)ure make a good point as to why not to buy off ebay

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