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Re: USB Microphones

On Sat, 26 May 2007, L.A. Angulo wrote:

> Gang,
> has anybody tried these USB mics? how do they differ
> in terms of quality from normal XLRs?
> ive been checking these out
> http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tbone_sc450_usb.htm
> thanx for your input
> Luis


No, I have not tried USB mics. Knowing that USB is not precisely the  
best protocol for an audio interface I see no sense in manufacturing  
a mic based on USB. Talk about minimizing the creative options! If  
you for some reason want to buy one, be sure to test it well first.  
If it works for what you want to do it's fine.

I have owned or simply tested four or five USB audio interfaces and  
they all sucked in some way. The only one that actually worked was a  
Digidesign M-Box 2 Mini and it only worked with ProTools LE. With all  
other software the audio stream was ruined by noise artifacts when  
going fully duplex. My definition of "working" is that the audio  
should sound as clean as originally in the air, with no interface  
except for ears and brain.

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