{"id":3763,"date":"2013-04-13T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T19:42:00","slug":"a-cheap-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/a-cheap-microphone\/","title":{"rendered":"a cheap microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heads up: today&#8217;s Tech Woot looks to be a quality microphone for the price. I didn&#8217;t even know Blue &#8211; who are a quality maker &#8211; made a USB microphone, or, for that matter, much in this price range. (I think they had a cheap ribbon mic at some point? But mostly their ribbons are pretty high end. And this is a large-can condenser, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want to move it around a lot &#8211; it&#8217;ll be too fragile to take out &#8211; but anyone wanting to muck around with home recording for as little cost as possible, just wanting to learn the concepts? You could do a lot worse. Particularly given that it&#8217;s a USB mic, and you won&#8217;t need to buy an external interface.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.woot.com\/offers\/yeti-usb-microphone-12\">http:\/\/tech.woot.com\/offers\/yeti-usb-microphone-12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, for the record, I have no connection or financial interest in either Woot or Blue, other than losing in a bidding war for a Blue Woodpecker ribbon mic once on eBay. XD<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t Stickmaker for the callout.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heads up: today&#8217;s Tech Woot looks to be a quality microphone for the price. I didn&#8217;t even know Blue &#8211; who are a quality maker &#8211; made a USB microphone, or, for that matter, much in this price range. (I think they had a cheap ribbon mic at some point? But mostly their ribbons [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-recording-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}