Hello,
This maybe isn’t the place for what I’m looking for, but worth a shot. I need a very basic set-up to record voiceover clips.
This will unfortunately include mainly getting a new laptop, as my Sony Vaio now belongs in the Natural History Museum.
I need a good vocal mic with a pop-guard, and will be using Audacity to record. At some point in the future I’d like to be able to use Pro-Tools on the laptop, so it would need to be an 8GB one, with a 15”-plus screen, and would run Windows.
It would have to be lower budget (I’m not in the market for a Mac or anything at that price point). Any recommendations?
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A Rode NT1-A mic, usually available as a bundle with a pop filter and shockmount, plus a stand and an XLR cable and an audio interface such as a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 would be good but set you back about £300 all in.
There are quite a number of USB podcast mics in the £150-£200 range so you could halve your mic cost if you wanted to go that route.
Spending most of your budget on software will count zero towards the quality of the end result.
As for laptops get a decent used Lenovo i5
I still have a snowball one for this purpose, although I've not used it much as I have a million other options now.
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Rode podcaster is good for this - and don't dismiss the venerable sm58 if you have one
Spec yourself up at PC Specialist. I bought a new one this year: 15" screen, i5-8300H processor, MX150 graphics, 256GB Samsung EVO M2, 8GB DDR4. £630 delivered, will end up costing me £660 after taking advantage of the 12 months interest-free credit offer. I looked at big name makes and simply couldn't get anything that suited me better as the bare bones lappies PCS use are easy to open up for cleaning and upgrade purposes.
Audio interface and software:
All the usual suspects here: Steinberg UR22 or UR12, Audient ID4. I'm interested to see what these are like:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/audio-interfaces/komplete-audio-1-audio-2/
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