"John Stumbles" wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:51:11 +0000, Keith G wrote:

I still say a USB mic is the cleanest solution here if they are
recording straight to PC and the Samson mics I mentioned are very
solidly built - any teenage son of mine who couldn't use one without
breaking it would get a kicked arse....

Sounds like a good idea: any suggestion for specific makes models of USB
mics?


OK, I can only speak for the one I have which is a Samson C03U multi-pattern
and is a little bit more expensive than I thought:

http://www.dv247.com/microphones/sam...rophone--34214


Nice review with a brief mic swap/compare in it he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BGIBy3GAg&feature=fvw


No phantom power required - one cable straight from the mic to the computer
and they greet each other like old friends in XP and Vista!

Sound quality is perfectly standard with no shortfalls that I am aware of
but, like I said earlier, explore the cable length limitations with USB - I
actually bought a 5m USB extension with 'relay station' in it (or whatever
it is) to give me 10m overall but it got hijacked for the Toppy TV recorder
and I never got round to trying it on the mic!!

Just for ****s and giggles, here's a 10 second byte of my mate Shiny Nigel
on my copy a few years ago:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/Samson.mp3


(Just ****ing about and ignore any background noise, we were less than a
metre from a very noisy computer! :-)