For those of you who actually record music and/or skype, what microphone do you use? Right now, I'm using this fairly cheep (but good quality, it seems) headset microphone from Nexxtech, although I would like to find something that I can either talk to the side, or talk right into it and have a rich sound. In other words, a microphone that you would normally see in a studio.

I'm thinking of getting the Heil PR-40. I can talk off of it quite a bit away, and it'll pick me up. I can talk straight right down the barrel and have a rich, bassy sound that you probably would not hear from a headset mic. The price for it is $325, while the boom and shock mount (both from Heil) costs $109 and $95 separately. Add in the conversion box and cable will cost ~$125, I'd say I would be down about $500-some.

Now, there's that. I could always get a USB headset, although I would like to be able to position the mic wherever I wish, so for instance I'm streaming live, I could just move the mic out of the way when I won't be speaking for long periods.

How should I go about this?

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