{"id":1031,"date":"2015-09-24T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2015-09-24T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T02:32:55","slug":"my-latest-and-least-expensive-microphone-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"My latest and least-expensive microphone recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one rocks. It&#8217;s only $39.99 here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004QJOZS4?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B004QJOZS4&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=www30dollarfi-20\">Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB Microphone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unscrew the top and pull out the inner foam (use scissors or tweezers) and throw the inner foam away. It&#8217;s not good for stopping plosives, plus it smells like diesel (as do most things from China these days). Leave the grill off for a day and let it air out. Then put the grill back on and put a foam windscreen on the grill (get those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006GXZHBW?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B006GXZHBW&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=www30dollarfi-20\">HERE<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throw away the little tripod stand, it won&#8217;t get the mic close enough to your mouth. The mic should be about a fist away from your mouth. Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003CLIPHO?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B003CLIPHO&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=www30dollarfi-20\">this mic stand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This mic shows up as a different mic (USB2005) in programs, but it&#8217;s all good. If you wanna hear this mic in action, over <a href=\"http:\/\/feenphone.com\/\">FeenPhone<\/a>, listen to me (Michael Dean) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/_MP3s\/2015\/09\/FF-791_09-24-2015.mp3\">the first 13 minutes of this episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one rocks. It&#8217;s only $39.99 here: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB Microphone. Unscrew the top and pull out the inner foam (use scissors or tweezers) and throw the inner foam away. It&#8217;s not good for stopping plosives, plus it smells like diesel (as do most things from China these days). Leave the grill off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=1031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My latest and least-expensive microphone recommendation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140,139,137,138],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radiooooooo","tag-feen-phone","tag-feenphone","tag-good-cheap-mic-for-podcasting","tag-radio-mics","hfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}