

It’s helpful if you’re switching from a boisterous speaker to a soft-spoken one, say, or from a lullaby to an aria. In-mic volume (gain) control: This feature gives you more control over the volume from the microphone as it’s feeding into your computer.Without this addition, you have to plug your headphones into your computer, and the resulting slight delay (due to the processing the analog-to-digital converter uses as it encodes your voice) can be infuriating if you are trying to match a beat or narrate over a video, or if you just don’t want to discover after your recording that all your P’s were popping. Headphone jack on the mic: A zero-latency headphone jack helps you hear exactly what the mic is sending to your computer without any distracting delay.The more switches and knobs there are, the more overwhelming a mic is to use, and the tougher it is to dial in perfect settings.

