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First as a Reference, I am looking to buy a new microphone setup but am also quite clueless, my initial mic request post is here https://homerecording.com/bbs/equip...nce-including-voice-overs-378996/#post4300258
Now, honestly, that thread opened more questions than it helped me make a decision on what to do.
in short what im trying to accomplish :
My needs and intentional use
I am planning to produce Videos with Voice overs, on almost a daily basis, at home, to then publish via youtube.
Now it is important to me that the Voice Overs are clear in quality, intimate in feel and audience inclusive, meaning the audience feels being part of the experience by feeling close to the narrator, think similiar to BBC wildlife documentaries.
My Budget is quite short, I am also not planning to do any instrumental recording or any kind of musical work, only Voice Overs.
I already Own a Xonar Essence STX Headphone soundcard, which has in i nbuilt amp for headphones and I use a Beyerdynamic 250 Ohms DT 8800 Headphone, which goes directly into the soundcard and is driven by it.
Now, what i dont know is how a interface for a solid XLR mic, say for a ShurePG42 XLR, would work with my existing setup.
I was told that I would have too many sources for recording my speech and sound with the soundcard for theh eadphones and external interface for the microphone.
Where do I go from here ?
Do I ditch my soundcard and get an expensive interface which drives both my headphones and the XLR mic i would then buy ?
Do I stick with my current setup and buy a USB Shure PG42 ?
Or do I keep my soundcard, drive the headphone with that and get the XLR seperate on the interface ?
The advantage of the XLR/interface stup is supposed to be superior sound quality and saving myself work by not having to post equalize all the voice overs as the interface is doing that. Is that actually the case ?
Haaaaaalp !
First as a Reference, I am looking to buy a new microphone setup but am also quite clueless, my initial mic request post is here https://homerecording.com/bbs/equip...nce-including-voice-overs-378996/#post4300258
Now, honestly, that thread opened more questions than it helped me make a decision on what to do.
in short what im trying to accomplish :
My needs and intentional use
I am planning to produce Videos with Voice overs, on almost a daily basis, at home, to then publish via youtube.
Now it is important to me that the Voice Overs are clear in quality, intimate in feel and audience inclusive, meaning the audience feels being part of the experience by feeling close to the narrator, think similiar to BBC wildlife documentaries.
My Budget is quite short, I am also not planning to do any instrumental recording or any kind of musical work, only Voice Overs.
I already Own a Xonar Essence STX Headphone soundcard, which has in i nbuilt amp for headphones and I use a Beyerdynamic 250 Ohms DT 8800 Headphone, which goes directly into the soundcard and is driven by it.
Now, what i dont know is how a interface for a solid XLR mic, say for a ShurePG42 XLR, would work with my existing setup.
I was told that I would have too many sources for recording my speech and sound with the soundcard for theh eadphones and external interface for the microphone.
Where do I go from here ?
Do I ditch my soundcard and get an expensive interface which drives both my headphones and the XLR mic i would then buy ?
Do I stick with my current setup and buy a USB Shure PG42 ?
Or do I keep my soundcard, drive the headphone with that and get the XLR seperate on the interface ?
The advantage of the XLR/interface stup is supposed to be superior sound quality and saving myself work by not having to post equalize all the voice overs as the interface is doing that. Is that actually the case ?
Haaaaaalp !