"John Stumbles" wrote in message
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My 16-yo budding rock guitar hero son is after a microphone. He and his
mates often record themselves jamming and don't have a suitable mike. They
tend to record into PCs (or Macs) and I guess might want to bung it into
guitar amps or various bits of domestic audio kit they have around. Apart
from vocals I guess it might be used recording acoustic guitars.

It definitely needs to be robust and, having some idea what any sort of
serious mics can cost, priced at the Santa-friendly end of the range :-)

Apart from suggestions of what makes & models to go for (or avoid) can
folks guide me through the technology? I guess we're looking at 'dynamic'
(i.e. moving-coil?) with cardioid pattern and some sort of built-in or
add-on pop filters, but no doubt you can get kit with built-in preamps,
bluetooth and teasmades these days - I'm a bit out of touch ...

Oh and I guess it needs to look cool too ;-)


If you are recording to a PC you might want to cut the crap and go straight
to a USB mic - Samson do a number of models which, if the one I have is
anything to go by, will all be very good:

http://www.samsontech.com/products/p...fm?prodID=1810

Only serious restriction to bear in mind is the relatively short max. cable
length which might be as low as 5 or 10 metres and I'm not sure (pun
avoided) about 'looking cool'....??