microphone help

You could look at a Blue Yeti which has the capability to have a group of people around it recording your commentary but there are many different good types out there and go and look at the Microphone pinned thread in the video editing, recording, software and hardware area of the forums which could help you.
 
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You could look at a Blue Yeti which has the capability to have a group of people around it recording your commentary but there are many different good types out there and go and look at the Microphone pinned thread in the video editing, recording, software and hardware area of the forums which could help you.
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I have a blue snowball right now but it isn't the best so I feel like blue yeti would be same thing I was debating buying two audio technica at2020 and a mixer but not sure how far apart the mics have to be to work correctly
 
The quality difference between the Yeti and Snowball is quite minimal and I doubt buying a Yeti will be of benefit, for the Snowball you could switch it to Setting 3 which will allow audio from the front and back of the Mic to be picked up and place it between each other.

As for your second option, the mics being beside each other will mean nothing, but both mics might pick up both of you, however assuming both audio from the mics are going to be put together, as long as you're not squashed together with both of you right beside each other you shouldn't find an issue, however try messing with settings if you do go with the AT2020.

Also I would recommend an Interface with 2 inputs over a Mixer, a Mixer would be overkill for what you want to do.
 
RedFox said:
The quality difference between the Yeti and Snowball is quite minimal and I doubt buying a Yeti will be of benefit, for the Snowball you could switch it to Setting 3 which will allow audio from the front and back of the Mic to be picked up and place it between each other.

As for your second option, the mics being beside each other will mean nothing, but both mics might pick up both of you, however assuming both audio from the mics are going to be put together, as long as you're not squashed together with both of you right beside each other you shouldn't find an issue, however try messing with settings if you do go with the AT2020.

Also I would recommend an Interface with 2 inputs over a Mixer, a Mixer would be overkill for what you want to do.
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Could you show me an example?
 
RedFox said:
Also I would recommend an Interface with 2 inputs over a Mixer, a Mixer would be overkill for what you want to do.
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At the low end of cost for gear, its' often best to get more pots than you actually need since they occasionally go dark. So for 2 mics, you'd want 3 or more inputs because an input failure won't force you to go buy more gear.
 
My suggestion would be the blue yeti is what i use because there is an option to change where the microphone picks up sound. However the blue yeti picks up everything: your keyboard anything however if you have a quiet house then i recommend it.
 
RedFox said:
Also I would recommend an Interface with 2 inputs over a Mixer, a Mixer would be overkill for what you want to do.
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This. x1000 Do you currently have an audio interface? I'm assuming you don't since you're using a USB mic currently: Something like this for instance - Search: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
 
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