For many years, I exclusively used this Blue Yeti (now owned by Logitech), which has served me diligently for nearly ten years. However, I changed that as I was looking for a microphone to use on video that obscured my face less, settling on the Shure MV7. I still keep the Yeti in a kind of “spoken word” booth for when I do pure audio recording, such as audiobooks or voiceover work.
While Arturia was servicing my MiniFuse 4, I needed a temporary solution to connect my Shure MV7 to my computer. I purchased the Elgato XLR Dock Mk2 as most of the time I just need a mic and headphone input, not a full audio interface. And as a bonus, it’s all controllable from a Stream Deck.
For most of the past few years, I used an iRig Mic HD 2, am still happy with it, and use it when I conduct podcast interviews at home late night. However, I wanted separate microphones (and thus recordings) for myself and the interviewee, ideally without needing large external recording devices that would then break my baggage requirement and now for event interviews I use the Neewer CM 28 instead.
When I travel and conduct interviews, I use the Neewer CM 28, a curious device that sparks plenty of conversation when I use it, which is an unexpected bonus to warm up interviewees. It consists of two small lavaliar-style mics, a receiver, and a case which is also a battery. Each mic can store 2GB of audio, and the default format is WAV, so the quality is reasonable if a little hollow-sounding. My only issue so far has been that the mics date stamp each file with the start of Unix time (January 1st, 1970), making it hard to match files to interview when it comes to editing later.
I switched to the Shure MV7 after using a Blue Yeti for years. The MV7 is a hybrid USB/XLR microphone that lets you to record directly into a computer via USB or connect to an audio interface via XLR. I bought it as I was doing more video work and the Yeti was too large and visually distracting on camera. After a period of time connecting it with USB, I now connect it using XLR to a Arturia MiniFuse 4 or Elgato XLR Dock Mk2.
