STOP CALLING IT PODCASTING!!! Streaming audio was around LONG before the piddly iPod. And what happened to Apple suing everyone for royalties on the term?
Point taken, but that is true of any USB mic. Snowball is a good piece of kit. What I want to try (And did not get an opportunity to do when I tested) is to be able to run a line out of my Tapco mixer, into the MicportPro, and into my computer. The real benefit of something like this is to have the flexibility to use different microphones. Snowball while a great mic, ain't no PR40, or Electrovoice RE-20 or Shure SM7B. For those of us that already have a mic it is a pretty attractive option. It is also easy to send the micport and a Beyerdynamics m58 interview mic to a correspondant in the field to cover an interview. Easy as in low bulk, easy to ship and use, no drivers required.
And to Jibbajabba: podcasting, netcasting whatevah. Apple doesn't care if you use podcasting as a general term. What they have a problem with is calling a commercial product an "anything-Pod." it means the same thing: a downloaded audio enclosure in an RSS feed. It is not however, the same thing as streaming audio. Leave Smittie alone ;)
To bring a mix into the computer I use an external firewire audio interface. You can a decent 2 channel USB interface about the same or a little more than this thing.
MicPort strikes me as interesting if you have, say, a Shure SM-58 that you want to use to get audio in. That is, you have a mic with specific audio qualities that you want to use to capture. In the case, this is a useful little bit of kit. If you just want a make to make your PODCAST, there are better options.
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Looks like it is about the same price as a Snowball from BlueMic. With the Snowball, you get all that AND a pretty good microphone.
Smittie
STOP CALLING IT PODCASTING!!! Streaming audio was around LONG before the piddly iPod. And what happened to Apple suing everyone for royalties on the term?
I didn't use the term podcasting. Why did you reply to me??
Smittie
Point taken, but that is true of any USB mic. Snowball is a good piece of kit. What I want to try (And did not get an opportunity to do when I tested) is to be able to run a line out of my Tapco mixer, into the MicportPro, and into my computer. The real benefit of something like this is to have the flexibility to use different microphones. Snowball while a great mic, ain't no PR40, or Electrovoice RE-20 or Shure SM7B. For those of us that already have a mic it is a pretty attractive option. It is also easy to send the micport and a Beyerdynamics m58 interview mic to a correspondant in the field to cover an interview. Easy as in low bulk, easy to ship and use, no drivers required.
And to Jibbajabba: podcasting, netcasting whatevah. Apple doesn't care if you use podcasting as a general term. What they have a problem with is calling a commercial product an "anything-Pod." it means the same thing: a downloaded audio enclosure in an RSS feed. It is not however, the same thing as streaming audio. Leave Smittie alone ;)
To bring a mix into the computer I use an external firewire audio interface. You can a decent 2 channel USB interface about the same or a little more than this thing.
MicPort strikes me as interesting if you have, say, a Shure SM-58 that you want to use to get audio in. That is, you have a mic with specific audio qualities that you want to use to capture. In the case, this is a useful little bit of kit. If you just want a make to make your PODCAST, there are better options.
Smittie