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Thank you for providing non-affiliate links for those of us who don't want someone else making money off our unrelated purchases in the next 24 hours.
Surprised the Blackmagic Design Web Presenter wasn't mentioned. It has several nice features including switching between 2 feeds without latency. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicwebprese...
One small point I'd like to make regarding USB mics (and USB headsets): the #1 rule of digital audio is to only have a single sample clock for the entire system (the sample clock is the thing that defines when a voltage value gets converted to/generated from a digital sample). Although I understand the plug-n-play appeal of these devices, they uniformly violate this rule because they cannot share whatever sample cloc…
Are you claiming to be able to "hear" resampling, and I dont mean 20 year old naive implementations like Cretive SB Live. Sample clock, and its phase is irrelevant as long as you pass Nyquist threshold, reconstructed signal will be indistinguishable from original. You might want to read https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
If you check out infinitewave.ca you will see that actually there are still lots of resampling implementations with notable artifacts, certainly when subject to measurement.
Can you hear them? Depends on the nature of the artifacts. I'd agree that in general, the answer is no.
Nevertheless, it is still wrong in my opinion for these mics to be spreading (or even being made) without it being clear what they imply for the user. You might not hear the effect, and you might not care, but you should understand clearly what using these devices require from whatever software stack you're using.
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I know, the idea that somebody could link to something useful and then be compensated for the value of their recommendation is so awful. It should be illegal for people to make money for doing things online. It should all be free. If we could get farmers and ranchers in on it, then municipalities and auto makers- heck- lets get the whole government on it- everything will be free and everyone will work for the common…
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Why would you care? You would prefer that Amazon gets to keep an even higher percentage of the profits?
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I use Scarlett 4i4, Cloudlifter, and a Shure SM7B mic. Before getting the Cloudlifter, my audio was whisper quiet even with the gain cranked all the way up. I highly recommend it for a SM7B. I couldn't be happier with my current setup. It sounds fantastic now.
Maybe worth noting that SM7B is a dynamic microphone and notoriously quiet one.
Surprised the Blackmagic Design Web Presenter wasn't mentioned. It has several nice features including switching between 2 feeds without latency. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicwebprese...
I have the Elgato Camlink, which is way cheaper, but I’ve been wondering whether the Web Presenter would be a more foolproof solution. For OBS the Camlink is fine, because I’m able to get a signal by manually configuring the source frame rate. But non of the cameras I’ve tried will show up in Skype—or if they do, they drop out at some point. How is your experience with the Web Presenter, does it show up as a webcam r…
The comments here were as helpful as the original post - thanks all.