What Gear to use for recording?

voice quality is everything in my opinion. Yeah you can record on a laptop and use whatever mouse and keyboard you want but honestly, shelling out 50 bucks on a blue snowball is by far the best decision you'll ever make if you want to get into youtube. If you mess with your audio for your mic, say in sony vegas, if you mess with your EQs and all that stuff, you can make the blue snowball sounds 10 times better in my opinion. I spent 1.5k on my pc but that was before i started youtube. But yeah, anyone starting out on youtube you really dont need a beastly pc or top of the line gear or a really expensive mic that requires audio interfaces and such. all i can recommend for new youtubers is focus on a mic to be honest.

 

It depends if you do commentary on your videos or not. If you do, then a good quality mic should be the first thing you want to get so people can hear you better. If not, then focus on upgrading your PC. If you plan to do face cam in the future, you can purchase a new one after the mic.

 

I completely agree with you 100 percent. A buddy of mine was influenced by me and decided to start doing youtube videos and kept asking what gear i had because he would want it and he bought the same exact webcam i have and the same exact mic and spent 100s and 100s of dollars for a gaming pc. Just recently he told me he isnt cut out for it. He still plays games but he pretty much shelled out 150 or so for the mic and webcam and probably wont use it much. I see so many small channels come and go because A they either gave up or lost interest in it. B they are too busy with their own personal life and dont have the time to play games and make videos and lastly they probably quit because it didnt turn out how they thought it would and wasnt getting many views and subscribers. It took me forever to realize this but i never gave up on it.

 

I think the hardest thing for me has been trial and error with sound and software.
I have gone through a couple of headset mics. The best mic I have no is the Snowball.
Software...I was using OBS and then OBS Studio BUT with my laptop it was making my videos lag.
Because of a helpful MGN friend, I now use Action (an early Birthday gift), and it works perfectly.
I'm still learning but if you really want to do this you have to keep trying new things.

 

pewdiepie said it in one of his videos, his quality was rubbish but its personality that people liked bout him and ended up watching and supporting him during the whole way

 

I agree when starting out you really don't need too much. If commentary is your thing then yes buy a decent mic and game capture device if recording from console. If you play on PC use Geforce Shadowplay, Overwolf or OBS Multiplatform to capture your gameplay and audio. Then you can upload the raw footage and use YouTube's video editor to edit the video.

Truth is if I had to do it all over again I would have started a vlog channel first and then moved to gaming. This way I could have use my phones camera to make vlogs and see if I liked make YouTube videos.

 

I have Action but it makes the games lag so badly.

 

For audio, I recommend a Neewer NW-700 Condenser Microphone because it is good quality and cheap.

 

I bought cheap gear on GearBest or Ebay , there can get good gear for low price and they are good quality to.
I have make my youtube channel content like 4 years and changed my laptop ower 3 times and gear some month´s ower.