Hey Fellow Slackers I have a question for your guys. I like using google voice to make phone calls and am trying to determine the best microphone to use.

My laptop has an internal microphone built into the webcam, but I get too much background noise.

I have a microsoft lifechat 3000, but requires a lot of manual tweaking to get it to work right, though I could install pulseaudio.

Would a microphone that plugs into the 3.5mm jack on my laptop work better that the other two options?

Does anyone have any experience with this and have any recommendations?

A 3.5 microphone would be better than the built-in mic in the laptop or the webcam. Much better.

I use the Logitec HD390 USB headset for years on all the computers in the family. Quality is excellent. The mic is noice cancelling. It is plug and play, I assume it also will plug and play in Slack.

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I have a Samson "Meteor" USB Studio microphone. It is essentially a fancy microphone with it's own sound-card built-in. It is simply stunning. I think the only thing you have to be careful of when using a microphone is that the speakers don't feedback sound into the microphone, thereby creating that awful screeching noise.

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Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm thinking that having something that uses the 3.5mm jacks might be better than USB.

Is there any configuring that needs to be done to get it to work with Slack, or is it plug and play?

It came up as a soundcard. I used audacity to do the recordings. Simply chose the card/device from the pull down list. Adjust input volume as needed. It was fine for voice. When I recorded the school windband, with the trumpets only 150 cm's from the microphone, I had to adjust down the input levels.