Hi
A few years back I bought an inexpensive microphone from walmart.com.
Well, I must admit that I am not very impressed with it. First, one has to
have their mouth near the microphone for it to hear you. Next, the
recordings always seem to have hiss.
Well, with all the talk about microphones I pulled mine out and gave it
a try. I found myself setting up windows dictation in windows 7. One must
read the text on the screen in to the microphone. Suddenly the text
explained that one needs to be near the microphone as though they were on
the telephone. Hmmm. Well, I tried that and my results improved greatly.
Next, I made a sample recording. Yes, the hiss was still there. So, I
brought it up in the gold wave editor. And applied the hiss reduction.
Suddenly there I was as clear as a bell. I am still not fond of my voice,
although I am deeply grateful to have a voice. I just hate listening to
myself.
I hope what I learned might be helpful to others.
God bless,
Mark
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Recommendation for a microphone
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David and others,
I have a blue snowball microphone here from Blue Microphones and it's
decent. It has three different pickup patterns: cardioid, cardioid with
a 10 decibel pad, and an omnidirectional pattern. It's a bit more
expensive - somewhere around $100, but it's definitely better than some
other mics. Basically it's good for a low to mid budget microphone
solution. It connects via USB. Hope this helps.
On 6/12/2012 10:40 AM, David Ferrin wrote:
> I use a plantronics for most of my audio tutorials although some times I
> select my USB headset but not too often.
> David Ferrin
> Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones
> that mind don't matter.
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Recommendation for a microphone
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> Lenny: When I make voice recordings in Goldwave, I generally use a
headset
> with a microphone like you'd use with a computer communications
application
> like Skype. These are pretty inexpensive, sometimes you can find them for
> under $5. I'm sure the quality isn't as good as what you'd get from an
> expensive mic, but if that's not an issue for you, this might be an
> alternative. Marlyn P. Jones and Associates has had these for cheap in
the
> past, thogh it looks like they're temporarily out of stock at the moment.
> There website is:
> www.mpja.com
> and there is a link for head sets off their main page.Good luck.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lennie
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 6:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Recommendation for a microphone
>
> Hi Kevin, Scorpio and John,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions for my need for a better microphone. My
> current microphone is at least 40 years old (did I give out my age?).
> I think that originally it was not designed for today's technology. I
> did check the volume level in volume control before I checked it in
> GoldWave. Kevin and John, I will check out your recommendation.
>
> I hate to purchase a new microphone without really being sure that it
> will suffice for what I am doing. I guess that whatever I purchase it
> can be return without any problems.
>
> Thanks. Take care.
>
> Lennie
>
>
> At 10:36 AM 6/11/2012, you wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I see that you checked the microphone and recording volume in GoldWave,
but
>> did you check the line-in or microphone levels through Windows?
>>
>> I'm just thinking that you didn't check those, even though that should
have
>> been the first place to look before you touched any volume levels in
>> GoldWave.
>>
>> Doing this will depend on what sort of operating system you're using, but
>> in
>> most cases, you can access the volume controls in the system tray, and
from
>> there, deal with the computer's recording levels and microphone
properties
>> where you can increase the microphone boost and all that nifty jazz.
>>
>> So try that and let us know how you did.
>>
>> Scorpio
>>
>>
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