My knowledge of audio equipment is quite rudimentary. USB plug and play stuff.
My priest, who is a boomer, has even less.

We’re an Orthodox Christian mission and my priest conducts services online for his partitioners that can’t attend. I try to attend myself for matins and vespers but the audio quality is very poor. He uses go to meeting for the services and a MacBook with its built in web cam and a very inexpensive mic to broadcast from.

Since I try to make regular attendance of these daily services I’d like to contribute toward making them better and issue number 1 is audio quality. I know he needs a better mic but I have no idea what would be appropriate.

An orthodox matins/vespers service isn’t a pulpit performance either-he is constantly moving about in our little mission and chanting/singing the scriptures.

What we’d ideally have is a stationary mic that can plug into his laptop and clearly hear him in a space of about 300sqft. Budget, well ideally $100 or less.

So what’s out there that would fit the bill?