I'm thinking of taking up audio on my laptop. Windows Voice Recorder's no good. Can anyone recommend a decent and fairly inexpensive microphone for the job?

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Blue company tends to specialize in relatively affordable yet still decent microphones. General consensus is that, unless you're buying secondhand, you won't find a good microphone for less than $20. I personally use a Samson C03u studio condenser microphone. I believe I bought it for around $90, but I don't know what they go for now.

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Hm well I use a Blue Yeti microphone. It comes with a cord that has a USB to connect to your computer

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Okay, I'll look into it. Thanks guys.

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You're quite welcome!

I have a Samson meteor also get audacity

I'm going to second the audacity setup, especially since you're on a Windows build. It's free (last time I looked) and easy. I used way back when first started doing videos a decent Shure mic knock off that I got from Radio Shack for $25 that had an XLR to 1/4" cable. Had nice quality. Don't know much about USB mics unfortunately.