Add quality sound with a USB microphone.

With the growing focus in my work on multi-media, adding sound becomes an important part of the picture.

If all you want to do is add sound voice-overs to your web pages or podcasts, there’s a cheap, under $80 microphone, the Samson, that fits the bill nicely.

It may not be portable like the Edirol recorder I use, and it is not stereophonic, but then it’s not $400 either, and anyone with a notebook computer could use it in the field. The microphone plugs into a USB port and needs no external power supply.