This little USB microphone makes adding a mic. to your Raspberry Pi or computer super easy! It's ideal for adding basic sound capture to your projects.

Noise-cancelling will help to filter out unwanted background noise, and there's a little power light to tell you when the mic. is active.

In Raspbian, this device should show up in the audio control panel automagically (go to the Raspberry Pi menu, then Preferences, then Audio Device Settings, and select USB PnP Sound Device).

Once you're up and running, record audio input on your Pi, in the terminal, by typing:
arecord -D plughw:1 -f cd /tmp/recording.wav