Questions about buying a microphone.

Sorry, for some reason the link I'm trying to share does not show so I will simply paste the URL in simple text:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-desktop-microphone-gnulinux

EDIT: Strange, in the past I had to write in HTML to make a link (href) and now it works by just writing the URL.

I have that microphone. It works well for me. Here's a recording done with it:

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/bd3f6639

The only problem I have is I sometimes can't select it as an input source; rebooting solves this problem. I don't think it's a problem specifically with this microphone, because the sound settings window still shows it properly in the hardware tab when this happens. Anyway, it's a minor problem.

Thank you for the sample, It gave me the information I needed.
The microphone from Thinkpenguin works well for me.

You can buy any microphone that goes into the 3.5mm audio port (on the assumption that it works with free software). I mean the one that has a bit of red plastic around it, not the one with a bid of green plastic around it.

That is, if you want something a bit cheaper. Then you can get any microphone.

I would recommend Audacity for the actual recording.