Hi all
I recently purchased a HyperX Cloud II. The reason why I went for a headset that comes with a USB soundcard is because my motherboard's integrated soundcard produces an annoying background white noise when recording my microphone. While this has solved the white noise issue, the USB sound card ruins the mic quality, largely due to its built-in noise cancelling feature which I unfortunately cannot disable. I have tested the mic on my MacBook using the headset jack and the quality is much better than either, so I assume my motherboard's sound card is just not great.
So I have two options - either I buy a decent sound card and chuck the USB sound card, which would hopefully improve the quality of my headset microphone's recordings, or I buy a USB mic such as the Blue Snowball and use that when I need to record my voice (YouTube and streaming). Which would you suggest? Or are there any superior options to either of these?
Main disadvantage of sound card - headset mic quality still won't be as good as a separate mic.
Main disadvantage of usb mic - clunky and I'll need to invest in an arm, pop filter etc.
Thanks in advance!
I recently purchased a HyperX Cloud II. The reason why I went for a headset that comes with a USB soundcard is because my motherboard's integrated soundcard produces an annoying background white noise when recording my microphone. While this has solved the white noise issue, the USB sound card ruins the mic quality, largely due to its built-in noise cancelling feature which I unfortunately cannot disable. I have tested the mic on my MacBook using the headset jack and the quality is much better than either, so I assume my motherboard's sound card is just not great.
So I have two options - either I buy a decent sound card and chuck the USB sound card, which would hopefully improve the quality of my headset microphone's recordings, or I buy a USB mic such as the Blue Snowball and use that when I need to record my voice (YouTube and streaming). Which would you suggest? Or are there any superior options to either of these?
Main disadvantage of sound card - headset mic quality still won't be as good as a separate mic.
Main disadvantage of usb mic - clunky and I'll need to invest in an arm, pop filter etc.
Thanks in advance!