I'm aware many people don't trust USB microphones but this one is impressive. In addition to being a studio quality microphone, it also has a high impedence instrument input, line level input and midi in. The cost (around $650 US) is outside my price range but it definately would otherwise be worthy of consideration.

++ Lewitt DGT 650 USB Microphone ++

Thanks Jim. There isn't any technical reason why a USB microphone has to be cheap quality. It's just that vendors seem to have gone for that while taking advantage of the convenience of USB.

That is an impressive unit.



Regards,

Bob

I've got a Blue mic at home, I'm not sure why there's a misconception about USB Mics being poor.

That being said, I do miss the XLR port.

The snowball line from BLUE uses electret style condenser mics.

I paid way less than 600 for a combination of my Focusrite 18i8 and a good quality condenser. I don't want all of that stuff in my mic.

I do have a cheap Samson USB D amid mic that also has XLR out and a headphone out. Paid $39 for it at Target. It's a decent SM 58 clone. I've used it one time via USB.

What looks attractive is that it is iOS.

I think the reason is that the first USB Mics were terrible. They sounded like manufacturers took those $5 computer mics and put them into a real mic case!

That's because they did!

$400 will get you two very nice MXL phantom powered XLR mics and a Focusrite Scarlett 212 interface.