I don't need another USB microphone in my life, but I sure do like how this one looks.
I like how it comes with a mic stand adapter too, because a lot mic with similar mounting setups don't give you the ability to use a real stand, which makes them almost completely worthless.
I wouldn't recommend any USB microphone for $180, though. I'd be hard pressed to recommend one at even $100, unless you specifically need a dynamic mic, which are harder to find for cheap. You can get a good sounding USB condenser mic that does all the USB mic things for under $50 (but get something better than a $25 FiFine K669). Put that extra money into a nice mic arm, or something.
If you ever outgrow a mid-priced USB mic, then that means you need to do something specific that a USB mic can't do. That's when time to get an audio interface and go XLR.
Few people need that, though. Cheap microphones will always sound bad. But once you hit a minimum baseline of quality, then room treatment and the way you use the microphone becomes way more important than the mic itself. For USB microphones, that good-enough level of quality lives somewhere around the $40 mark.
Until you get good, the microphone isn't holding you back. You're holding back the microphone. You don't get good by following an 11 minute tutorial, either. Like any learned skill, it takes years of practice to master. Audio Engineering is a 4 year degree for a reason.
Either way, even a very expensive pro-grade studio microphone isn't going to make your content more popular. Nobody cares about the equipment, trust me. They want you to be clear and easy to listen to, but they don't care how you get there.
I know it's hard to figure out what sounds good, when just about every youtube audio test on every microphone in the world is going to tell that you NEED to buy it through their commission-generating link. So just remember they're cheap shill salesmen in an infomercial. Listen to what the mic sounds like and move on before they get to the hard-sell in the conclusion.
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