Microphone for Skype, in which you can really hear everything

Question

Skype

There are two conference rooms in different cities in which two groups of people are trying to hear each other on Skype (well, catch a glimpse).
The vaunted Makovsky microphone works only if you stand within a radius of one meter, then “es”, “chavos” and “say it again” begin. An even more vaunted, expensive, solid-looking USB microphone with a beautifully lit LED inside also turned out to be a dummy. The microphone from the Logitech webcam goes into the same category. In general, a simple task, but a complete facepalm ...
Who knows microphones that are really (and not marketing) able to provide normal speech transmission within a radius of five meters around?

Answer 1

Maybe your sound card simply does not have gain enabled for the microphone input? And the sound from 5 meters, recorded through a microphone, will sound completely different from how you hear it with your ears, due to a strong echo (by the way, an interesting question is why this echo is only when recording through a microphone, but when talking live it is not) .

Answer 2

Hmm, through my Logitech camera, the interlocutors hear everything and everyone in a 2-room apartment, from the kitchen to the bedroom, at 30% microphone volume.

Answer 3

What kind of microphone for conferences is not suitable?

Answer 4

You will laugh, but there is a very good microphone here - you can hear it perfectly from any corner of a large room market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=4776348&hid=4684840 well, it also shoots well.

Answer 5

I have two logitech c310s on different computers, they can be heard perfectly from a distance of 1-4 meters. I checked it many times, talking from the bed at the other end of the room.

Answer 6

Since you are considering DIY, consider "Shoroh" microphones with automatic gain control (AGC). These are models 7-9.
There are many rave reviews and examples of use on the Internet.
To connect to a computer, you need to provide a microphone with power and a simple signal level-matching circuit.

Answer 7

We used such a microphone to organize remote training for 10 people (it just so happened that we had one - I don’t know where)
Samson
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Considered studio and not cheap, but performed well

Answer 8

Get a bluetooh adapter with a medium headset. And the volume does not jump when you turn your head, and you can hear yourself perfectly.
(Other methods have already been suggested)

Answer 9

Alternatively, instead of changing (or together with changing) the microphone, you can try to drown out the room itself. Perhaps the easiest way is to drape the walls with some kind of fabric.

Answer 10

I recommend trying the Playstation Eye camera:

As a webcam, of course, it is no good, but thanks to an array of four microphones, you will be heard on Skype from any corner of the room. The price is around $20.

Answer 11

I can offer a microphone for a computer that really picks up speech within a radius of five meters, you can hear it loud and clear, personally verified :-) Skype works perfectly with it.