Best Microphone for Youtubers
I actually have one right behind me here. Very very common microphone, and it would've been my guess going in but I had no idea just how popular it was. An incredible 110 outof the top 250 streamers on Twitch are using the Shure SM7B as their microphone of choice. That means that 44% of these top 250 Twitch streamers are all using the exact same microphone. I'm going to dive into some examples and some reasons why later on in the video, but for now let's keepgoing through the data and see which othermicrophones performed well. In total, there was 36different microphones that featured in the top 250, which is a good indication of how much choice there is out there. After the Shure SM7B, the next most popular, maybe a bit surprisingly for me, was the Blue Yeti. Now this is obviously a USB microphone, and a condenser microphone, so quite different to the Shure SM7B, and we saw 9% of users still using the Blue Yeti. Now the Blue Yeti is rightfully so a very popular microphone a...