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5 Microphones for Great Sound Quality in Your YouTube Videos

If you have a great video camera and a terrible microphone, your YouTube videos will stink. They may look amazing. And since you are the one broadcasting your message, you may think that your content is straightforward and easy to under-stand. Remember, people are viewing your video and hearing your message for the first time. That means your audio must be clear and of high quality, or poten-tial viewers will click away.

Fortunately, this does not mean spending a lot of money. In many cases, afforda-ble microphones have shown in field tests to perform as admirably as mics which are hundreds of dollars more expensive. The following 5 microphones are used by many full-time video bloggers, and from the least to most expensive, they all guarantee excellent audio for your videos.

1. Blue Snowball

This microphone will set you back about $50. It is available in white or black and delivers crystal-clear audio for your YouTube videos or your podcast. This is a "plug-and-play" microphone that only requires a USB plug. For ease of use and sound quality, along with a decent camera, the Blue Snowball may be the only mi-crophone you will ever need for making great YouTube videos.

2. Audio-Technica ATR2100

Usually offered for about $65, the ATR2100 offers both USB and XLR connectivity. This is a truly outstanding microphone, and you shouldn't judge sound quality by the price tag. There are professional podcasters and video bloggers that swear by this mic, as it consistently outperforms microphones which cost hundreds of dollars more in side-by-side audio tests.

3. Blue Yeti

Like the Blue Snowball, the Blue Yeti records great audio at a budget-friendly price tag. It costs around $110. As an upgrade from the Blue Snowball, you get multiple pattern selections with this microphone, and you can set it up to record sound from all directions, or focus in on just one audio source. It works great in the field, is the perfect podcasting microphone, and only requires a USB connec-tion.

4. Rode Podcaster USB Mic

Many people believe the Rode Podcaster delivers sound quality as good as that of the more expensive Heil PR40. Additionally, unlike the Heil PR40, this microphone only requires a USB connection for it to operate. That means you can plug it straight into your computer, without having to purchase a mixing board. The price usually runs around $225.

5. Heil PR40

For a lot of professional YouTube video bloggers and full-time podcasters, the Heil PR40 is the cream of the crop. This is a professional level microphone that works great in unprofessional environments. It is a true workhorse, and requires approx-imately a $300 to $400 investment, depending on whether you purchase it alone or in a bundle. Keep in mind that you must have an XLR connection to use this mic, which in many cases means hooking it up to a mixing board.

Great YouTube Videos Mean Detailed, In-formative Descriptions

Video moved past text as the preferred way to consume information online some time ago. The people that keep track such things say that this trend is only going to continue in the future, as video becomes more popular online and text is pre-ferred even less than it is now. This doesn't mean that all the text-based infor-mation on your blog or website is useless. The Internet will probably always be predominantly a textual experience.

What it means is that you need to include video in your marketing plan. Since there are those who prefer text-based learning over watching a video, offering both video and text is a smart marketing move.

Combining Text and Video

Have you ever been watching a great YouTube video and looked directly below that video to get more information? People do this all the time. Something inter-ests them in the video they are viewing, and they want to learn more or see if there is possibly a website they can visit for more of the same type of infor-mation. This area only shows a limited amount of text characters, but there is a button below that text titled SHOW MORE.

Click on that button, and you get even more info. This is what YouTube calls the Description area. You can rehash what you talked about in your video, provide ex-ternal links to drive traffic to your web properties, or offer a word by word tran-scription of the video. Using your YouTube description area properly provides both you and your viewers with a lot of benefits.

First off, you need to understand that YouTube was purchased by Google years ago. Google is, as you probably know, the world's largest search engine. The more words, and phrases, and text-based characters you provide Google in your YouTube video description, the better chance that your video will rank for those important phrases and keywords. This is good for your YouTube channel, as well as any webpages where you are sending traffic.

What it does for your viewer is probably more important.

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