I was planning on using this for my YouTube and Live streaming of PC gaming. Will this capture all of my windows sound effects as well as my mic ?
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What you are asking... You can probably already do this with out a special audio interface. Simply enable stereo mix on your existing sound card, and record with Audacity.If you can't enable stereo mix (after searching google, there are a few interfaces that don't support it), you can get Virtual Audio Cable and use that instead.Honestly, if you don't need to connect to high quality microphones and reference near field monitors, there are plenty of less expensive (or even free) solutions.
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That depends on exactly how you want to use it. This mic will require some sort of interface and that is what will need to be compatable with Windows 8 (which is likely it will be). This will not plug into a regular sound card as it requires an XLR jack. You can buy XLR to TRS converters as well as USB converters. However, this mic comes in a USB version. It would work excelent as a Blog Caster's mic. Windows 8 most certainly has generic drivers that would work with it. ASIO4ALL is a good generic open source driver available free (search ASIO4ALL, you can't miss it). So if you want to plug directly into your computer this mic will be problematic without other appropreate equipement. The AT2020USB will plug directly into a USB port and any audio software should see it as an available input.
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It will work sound wise but the mic wont unless your laptop has a jack for it
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Hello,If your computer has "MICROPHONE INPUT" and recording software MAYBE okay to use. However just want to remind you that the sound produce maybe very low and sometimes unable to hear. Hope this helpThank you
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I definitely like it for pc gaming and i like it, but if you already have a mic i would try that out and see if it works well with your setup and it sounds nice before you go and buy another one. I would always rather have this over a headset though.
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Yes it does record gameplay but as far as I know it doesnt record your voice if you were planning on doing a live commentary. You should find a voice recording software ( I recommend audacity) you just record what you want to say while your watching the video that you recorded then you drag and drop the audio track into your video editing software.
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Though the computer can see the headset as the mic, when I checked how loud the computer was receiving the voice input, it was only seeing it as a whisper, even though I was speaking very loudly.In short, you can set it up, but it will be useless.Sources: Quick test using a Win7 comp and Windows Recording Devices
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No, to the first question. It will pick up the whole screen. I haven't tried to record only partial screen capture, but I did not see any options to do that. It will pick up any sound that goes through the sound device you are using at the time of recording. I hope this helps.
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It would record properly thru the mic only. Any input via line-in was distorted. I first thought it may be the cable, but tried another cable with same results.
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I would be grateful if you could post how you did this a mic on your computer. I have now tried a couple of ways and as the other poster had said, it did not work. I plugged it into the mic jack on my laptop. I then tried recording with 1) Sound recorder (under Microsoft Accesories) and with 2) Audicity. For Auditicy, I verified it could record fine w/o the mic and made sure I had the source input for auditcity be a microphone. so it appears the other poster is correct - but if you know some trick, please post so the rest of us can use it! (or if you realize you were mistaken, it would help us to know that too.) Thanks much. I would be grateful if you could post how you did this a mic on your computer. I have now tried a couple of ways and as the other poster had said, it did not work. I plugged it into the mic jack on my laptop. I then tried recording with 1) Sound recorder (under Microsoft Accesories) and with 2) Audicity. For Auditicy, I verified it could record fine w/o the mic and made sure I had the source input for auditcity be a microphone. so it appears the other poster is correct - but if you know some trick, please post so the rest of us can use it! (or if you realize you were mistaken, it would help... » Read More I would be grateful if you could post how you did this a mic on your computer. I have now tried a couple of ways and as the other poster had said, it did not work. I plugged it into the mic jack on my laptop. I then tried recording with 1) Sound recorder (under Microsoft Accesories) and with 2) Audicity. For Auditicy, I verified it could record fine w/o the mic and made sure I had the source input for auditcity be a microphone. so it appears the other poster is correct - but if you know some trick, please post so the rest of us can use it! (or if you realize you were mistaken, it would help us to know that too.) Thanks much. « Show Less
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I have an iMac and use it to record narrations. Not sure about Windows, but I bet it does as long as you have USB.
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I wish I could help. Unfortunately, I never had much for problems with my mic. What type of program(s) are you using that's picking up the noise? And what's your operating system? I've used mine with things like Skype and Bandicam and it works fine (both on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1). I did notice I tried it with Steam before and it was picking up noise from my headphones, so not sure if that's related (but Steam seems to do this a bit with other people and their hardware as well).
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This device converts analog audio (like from a mixer or ipod) into spdif digital audio. There's no usb or other computer connection. So if your windows machine has a spdif input (most don't), it should work fine.
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I'm operating on Windows 7 and it works great although I will say that we don't have a mic so don't know how that part of it works. But the audio is awesome!
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It has nothing to do with Windows. This mic plugs into a preamp or audio interface. You should find out if the audio interface is Win 8 compatible. I will say though, think about moving to a Mac pc for audio production. Win 8 is not designed for multitracking.
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Yes, it should work quite well if you get all the settings correct (in the Control Panel Sound app make sure the "Recording" tab has the "Line" setting turned on).
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I do not know about Windows 8 because I still have Windows 7, but I was able to hear the sound through the computer.. To do so with this mic you just have to adjust the setting in the cakewalk software and the computer..