I am looking to buy a new microphone. I want to get something that I would be able to use while gaming to talk to my friends and also to record voice-overs for videos. My biggest concern about getting a new microphone is that it would be too sensitive and would pick up a lot of background noise such as my keyboard, sounds from another room, or just a general humming noise. This concern comes from the fact that I have already gone through two different microphones without any satisfaction.
My first microphone was the Blue Nessie. While the sound quality it recorded was great, it picked up a HUGE amount of background noise. It picked up everything from a really loud hum, to a glass making a quite clinking sound in the other room. My friends also kept complaining that they could hear my keyboard strokes while I was playing.
My second microphone was the Neewer NW-700 which was actually pretty decent and did not pickup almost any background noise excpect for the occasional keyboard strokes. The problem with the neewer was that even with Phantom power I would get a weird quite loud noise/static when recording and using a VOIP services such as teamspeak and discord.
I have been looking at getting the Audio Technica AT2020 Cardiod Condensor microphone and purchasing a budget audio interface and or getting the focusrite scarlett solo studio.
So TLDR: I am looking for a microphone to get that I can use with teamspeak or discord to talk to my friends and also to do voice overs without worrying about loud background noises or static.
I don't understand much about microphones and audio so any help would be appreciated.
My first microphone was the Blue Nessie. While the sound quality it recorded was great, it picked up a HUGE amount of background noise. It picked up everything from a really loud hum, to a glass making a quite clinking sound in the other room. My friends also kept complaining that they could hear my keyboard strokes while I was playing.
My second microphone was the Neewer NW-700 which was actually pretty decent and did not pickup almost any background noise excpect for the occasional keyboard strokes. The problem with the neewer was that even with Phantom power I would get a weird quite loud noise/static when recording and using a VOIP services such as teamspeak and discord.
I have been looking at getting the Audio Technica AT2020 Cardiod Condensor microphone and purchasing a budget audio interface and or getting the focusrite scarlett solo studio.
So TLDR: I am looking for a microphone to get that I can use with teamspeak or discord to talk to my friends and also to do voice overs without worrying about loud background noises or static.
I don't understand much about microphones and audio so any help would be appreciated.