I want to buy a sound card, microphone and headphones.
My knowledge in the sound area is pretty blank and so I wanted to ask you if you could recommend something to me or where I could acquire the knowledge.
Sound cards:
Creative Sound Blaster Z
https://www.amazon.de/...009RPQA2G/
Sound BlasterX AE-5
https://www.amazon.de/...073HT4GM4/
Sound BlasterX G6
https://www.amazon.de/...07FY45F2S/
I also wanted to buy the Shure SM 7B microphone because every YouTuber / streamer felt it. Would it be worth it or should I get another one because it is a bit expensive.
Would recommend the Soundblaster G6, it has everything you need and you have it yourself.
If you buy the Shure SM7B you have to plan 90-150 euro for an audio interface because it is an XLR microphone.
And headphones either the Beyerdynamic Dt770 Pro (closed) or the Dt990 Pro (open). They are both durable (you can replace any part on what breaks) and best in their price range (just my opinion)
Why should he buy an internal and an external sound card?
Why both? I only spoke of the G6🤔
@ krone385 Thanks for the quick and helpful answer, I needed exactly that. Is there a difference why you should buy an external sound card instead of an internal one?
I can't tell you exactly but actually see no disadvantages compared to an internal🤷♂️
The main thing is that it works🤪
The audio interface and sound card are basically duplicated - at least if you are not talking about a pure interface, but one with a microphone preamplifier and what they don't have yet.
A sound interface is there to convert an analog signal into a digital one, can't the sound card? One last thing, which of the two headphones offers better sound?
For me personally, an interface is not enough for gaming. Especially when you use high-impedance headphones, an audio interface is by no means enough because you have to use a sound card.
There are also interfaces with decent headphone amplifiers.
But you can't plug an XLR microphone into a sound card because an audio interface is necessary because it has an XLR connection and a sound card in most cases does not.
In my eyes, that depends more on your surroundings. If you have a noisy environment then prefer the Dt770 Pro and if you have a quiet environment then use the Dt990 Pro.
The Dt770 Pro have more bass (because they are not open but can reflect the sound) but the Dt990 Pro have another sound stage (because they are open sound can also get out and your colleagues around you can listen to them)
Find Rode microphones great in terms of price / performance, the condenser microphones have great sound quality and have also worked with them a lot in the studio and always used AKG headphones. Again, price / performance was decisive for me. For the beginning, I think such products are great - of course you can always top up later.
If you can easily spend the money, buy an SM7B, it would be too expensive for me to chat a little now and then.
The SM57 has the same capsule.
I have the SM58 and played around with the EQ, it sounds very, very similar to the SM7B. So for hobby I find SM57 or 58 sufficient, the 57 is a little more pronounced in the heights.
The 7b is overrated in the home area. It looks good
Yes, make something. Stylish and well housed in the case. The presence switch is ok, price / performance is wrong for me.
Rode Nt1a and so are condenser large diaphragms, difficult to get decent sound at home.
Procaster and Podmic are dynamic.
Because every YouTuber / streamer felt it.
Rezo and Co also earn money with it. You just want to look good in front of the camera. Business model.
Seriously, you don't hear the difference on youtube, because everything is scrambled with auto-compressor anyway.
If you have a music store nearby, you can compare directly. The BCM 705 from Neumann is slightly more expensive, I find it much better, has a finer resolution, you can hear more details. The SM7B is overrated, I think. In the case of non-professional speakers in particular, the detailed transmission can have unpleasant side effects. Makes life easier, especially when you speak live.
The SM57 has the same capsule.
No, it didn't. The capsule from the SM7 is based on the Unidyne III capsule from the SM57 - but they are not identical. The SM7B also has a humbucking coil; In contrast to the SM57 no transmitter and a larger enclosed air volume behind the capsule.
I think the SM7B is an optically ugly microphone.
Yes, that's right, that's Shure's side, to put it precisely.
What does the air volume do?
What do you think of the 565?
BTW: The hard dip in the SM7b in the Siblanten comes from the resonance of the humbucking coil.
The larger air volume seems, if you look at the modded SM57; depict the depths better.
The 545 and 565 are just like SM57 / 58 - Always prefer the 545 / SM57 instead of the 565 or SM58.
With a Shure A2WS you have less pop noises than with the grill of SM58 / 565.
The hard dip with the SM7b in the Siblanten
What exactly do you mean? Does it "hiss" harder than the SM57?
"Dip" from English; in this case it denotes a depression in a frequency graph. Here:
It just doesn't hiss - although it tends to make it sound more artificial.
OK thanks
