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For a while I was still using my laptop's mic. Now I do have a separate microphone as well. I don't use a headset mic. My experience is that those rarely sound

For a while I was still using my laptop's mic. Now I do have a separate microphone as well. I don't use a headset mic. My experience is that those rarely sound good and tend to end up with even more breathing and mouth noises and stuff than even a computer's built in mic. I have a Blue Yeti that work got me. I've asked other people on video chats and they say the mic is a big improvement over my laptop's. I think that particular mic is a little bulky and ostentatious but it seems to get the job done.

gomox 6y ago
The ambient sound rejection of boom microphones (the ones on headsets) is superior to anything else just by virtue of how close they are to your mouth. You have to do a modicum of adjustment to make sure you are not breathing on the actual microphone, or chewing on stuff while you are not muted. I shift to my ambient microphone if I'm eating on a call. Unless you are in a studio-grade environment (including not typing on your computer) or doing some serious voice recording, I have found boom microphones to be the better tradeoff for actually talking to others.