![]() The Shure SM7b is a terrific microphone and paired with a Cloud Lifter volume booster appears on many podcasts. I do have an actual microphone recommendation. The one I made is a copy of this.Īnd there was another recent posting I think I wrote down…somewhere. If you’re not handy at all, several people make good pre-baked studios. If you never actually appear on camera, you might make good use of a Kitchen Table Sound Studio. Nothing says kid recording a podcast faster than echoes of recording in a bathroom or kitchen.Īlso see: good at picking up the sound of crickets Most people want to write a check for a microphone and and go home, but without question the best thing you can do is throw soundproofing around. I have an “affordable” gamer headset I used once and put it in a box in the garage. Denise and I are four time zones apart and she sounds like she’s sitting on the sofa beside me.įair warning “gamer headsets” are usually terrible. Most of the technical challenges worked out. This was a first-pass engineering test and not to be considered a final in any way. I shot my fake podcast with a head-mounted microphone similar to this. It allows you to get louder which many home microphones need, and it’s much less likely to receive P-Popping and other mouth noises. Oblique placement (B) has two advantages. Most of those sounds go straight in front of your face. See: DeClicker, DeEsser, and DeSibilator, Punch and Go editing. It’s not unusual for a presenter to want to filter most of the nuances out before the final show. The microphone types in your post are famous for picking up every single nuance and delicate sound. What’s a good microphone? That should be pretty simple. The audiobook publishers call this “distraction.” I have a favorite YouTube channel I’m about to abandon because they started to post unedited trash. This is why people who need to dash off show after show are desperate to avoid editing. I find necessary to edit my screencast lecture recordings.Įditing, as a fuzzy rule, takes five times the length of the show-and that’s if everything goes well. Should I get the Rode or some other dynamic mic? Any other advice on cutting down on the time needed for editing out non-speech noises would be greatly appreciated! I already own the Yeti as I mentioned, and I use the cardioid pattern with a pop filter (~18" from my mouth), but my question is this: Will buying a Rode instead minimize the intensity of non-speech noises that make it into my audio? If not, what would you suggest that I can do to minimize the intensity of these sounds? What microphone would you recommend? I am not willing to spend much more than about 150$ (it’s the department’s money actually, but still…) and I want USB and simple setup. I want a dynamic mic, I am told, something like a Rode NT-USB. ![]() In talking to a few recording-savvy people, I am advised by all of them that a condenser mic like the Yeti is the WRONG choice for recording voice in a home office with imperfect acoustics. I spend a LOT of time editing out all of this audio detritus because I’m a perfectionist with these lectures, and I re-use many of them semester after semester. (It is also really good at picking up the sound of crickets outside my window). This mic is very sensitive, and even though I am using an Auray pop filter, the Yeti picks up every inhalation, exhalation, lip-smacking, and other non-speech noise that issues forth from my body as I’m speaking. I am happy with the sound quality, however, I spend a TON of time editing the audio in Camtasia (a buggy disaster of a program–Looking for something else!). In any case, back in 2018, when I taught my first fully online class, our Instructional Technology office recommended that I buy a Yeti-Blue condenser USB mic for my screencast lectures (Powerpoint with voiceover). Most of this time burden is due to the time I find necessary to edit my screencast lecture recordings. When we went completely online last March, I was pretty well prepared, but underestimated the amount of time it would take me to manage three online classes instead of just one. ![]() I am a university professor (biology), and even before the pandemic I was teaching in-person as well as fully asynchronous (fully web-based, no set class meeting times) classes. In any case, this forum was greatly helpful to me in the past, so I’m back with a new set of questions/interests. However, right now I could not remember my login info, so I re-registered. I have used Audacity for years to record LPs to FLAC, and I was active on this forum around 2017-2018 when I was getting started with this endless (but fun!) project.
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