Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-60.241.60.158-20121216013750/@comment-917693-20171024180940

Technically you are an utaite/youtaite if you upload to nicovideo/youtube, but a phone mic usually doesn't have a good quality.

So I'd say it just depends on your goal. If you just want to have fun, at least starting out with a phone mic may be okay, but you may want to invest in a better mic in the future. (If you get more subscribers, or if you decide you want to pursue this hobby for a long time) If you want decent sounding covers, you need to invest in a better mic, as well as upgrade your mixing and singing skills.

A good mic will not help if your mixing skills or singing skills suck BTW, so if you believe your voice isn't good, a good mic will not enhance your singing skills. On the other side, your covers will not sound very good, even if you have wonderful singing skills, if you don't use a decent mic. If you aim for professional sound, you will need all three: singing skills, mixing skills, a good mic.

I don't use smule, but if you want professionally sounding covers I advise against smule, as it's mostly a karaoke kind of app, it seems, so you probably won't be able to mix the tracks as professionally. But for starting out for fun it may be good, I don't know...

I suggest you look through our Beginning Singers board. For example there's this thread about relatively cheap mics and possibly more relevant threads too! :)