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Your throat mic example is when listening through a radio link, versus a direct connection with the dynamic microphone example.

I'm sure the dynamic mic sounds better than the troat mic, but this is not a fair comparison. Every mic sounds terrible through such a radio link.

Antlion ModMic Wireless looks nice. I'm using the usb version with my wired headset. I'd really like a proper bluetooth dongle to combine wired microphone with wired headset. But that's almost impossible, because transmitting voice over bluetooth means the receiving audio switches to a very crappy codec. A dongle could theoretically present 2 bluetooth devices, one for audio and one for voice, but I'm not sure a phone or computer would play nice with that.

>> Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone (if that’s what you are using)

>I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim

It's an opinion, they are neither true nor false. It's fair to disagree with it though.

Tomatoes are the best vegetable. Opinion. I'm sure I'll get plenty of disagreements and even some reminding me that a tomato is actually a fruit.

At the time of original publishing, the article didn't have any sound clips, so opinion is all we have to go on.

The addition of the sound clip definitely doesn't make me a believer.

I think a cheap Amazon microphone would beat this setup with far less complexity.

> I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim here and does the reader a disservice by not even attempting to back up this claim with a recording.

Hey you're right that was a pretty wild claim so I softened it -- I had a very specific (shitty, old) microphone in mind when I wrote that, but the article now has an audio sample, and a reworked tl;dr (it will be live in like... <2 mins).

> The author doesn't seem to know that dynamic microphones only capture sounds directly in front of them, which makes them ideal for environments where there is background noise, especially if the background noise comes from further away.

I certainly didn't know that, TIL!

Thanks for that link too, those are some very good mics, and definitely not what I meant to even suggest that a throat mic was better than!

> Antlion ModMic Wireless

https://antlionaudio.com/blogs/news/introducing-modmic-wirel...

Interesting, neve rheard of this before! I used to have a Corsair VOID that worked well, but this going anywhere is pretty nice -- could be used on helmets or other things.

I don't run a mac so can't do the other stuff, but thanks for the suggestions, hopefully someone else can use them. Apple sure does get consumer hardware correct a lot, don't they.

Obviously, nothing can overcome strong background noise, but I suspect most people's home offices aren't so terrifyingly loud that it's a problem.

This video helped me figure out some microphone basics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdft3WiLvE