Booked! This time is great. Now…let’s make sure you sound great.
You are officially on the calendar! The most common issue that forces rescheduling is an inadequate microphone. To prevent that, I’m happy to send you a free headset as a gift. Please email me right away (Pete@AwesomeAtYourJob.com) if you don’t already have a quality microphone. What counts as a quality microphone?! Read on.
Disqualified Microphones
- Your computer’s internal microphone
- A phone (we’ll use CAST which records locally for better quality)
- Your smartphone’s included earphones (e.g., Apple earbuds)
- In-line mics connecting via a 3.5mm connection (e.g., Bose and Beats)
- Bluetooth headsets/headphones
- Apple earpods
- Blue Snowball Ice
- Logitech Clearchat H390
Pre-Approved Microphones
Quality USB Headsets. (Optimal positioning: three fingers-distance in front of the corner of your mouth)
- Jabra Evolve wired headset series
- Plantronic Blackwire wired headset series
- MPow wired headsets
- Sennheiser wired headsets. I’m happy to send you this one.
Solid USB microphones (with other headphones). For example:
- Audio-Technica ATR-2100 USB
- Blue Yeti
- Blue snowball
- CAD U37
- Samson C01U
- Shure PG42-USB
Any decent ($35+) XLR mic with an audio interface. Popular mic choices here include:
- AKG P series
- Audio-Technica AT series
- Audio-Technica BPHS1
- Audio-Technica BP40
- Behringer XM8500
- Blue Nessie
- Electro-Voice RE series
- Heil microphones
- Neumann microphones
- Pyle PDMIC58
- Rode Podcaster/Procaster
- Sennheiser e series
- Sennheiser MD series
- Shure Beta 87A
- Shure SM series
- Shure WH20XLR
- Telefunken M82