How do i use a microphone?

Answer 1

First it is very important to chose the right microphone. There are condenser microphones, ribbon microphones, dynamic microphones, and there are electret microphones. There are some different characteristics: omni directional, wide cardioid, cardioid, super cardioid, hyper cardoid and figure-of-eight. There are microphones with small diaphragm diameters and with large diaphragm diameters. There are expensive high quality studio microphones and less ideal very cheap Chinese mics.

When you have found the right microphone, then you can start to ask where to put this microphone to which musical instrument or voice.