looking for high quality headsetmicrophone combo

[Sunshine]

can anyone recomand a high quality headset microphone combo that is really 
great sounding in the headset department and microphone department? 


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Re: recording multiple inputs in windows 7

[Brett Boyer]

thanx for the info. Will give it a shot!
bb

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From: "David Bailes" 

To: 
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: recording multiple inputs in windows 7



Hi Brett,

my understanding is that Audacity can only record a single device. So if 
you want to use audacity you could either use a hardware mixer as input or 
get windows 7 to do the mixing. To do the latter:
1. Enable software playthrough for both the microphone and the line in. On 
the recording page of the sound dialog, for each device, select it, press 
spacebar to open its properties dialog, go to the listen page, and check 
the listen to this device check box.

2. Record "stereo mix" or whatever it's called on your sound card.

David.

original message:
Ok. I have a windows 7 machine and I'm running the latest beta from 
audacity.
The only problem, so far, is I cannot record my line-in combined with my 
front
mike. I've checked and unchecked different properties in the sound pannel. 
I

can record one or the other.
Any ideas?
bb
Brett Boyer





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So I bought a Digital radio..

[Dane Trethowan]

Hi everyone!

I bought myself a Digital radio today and thought I'd tell you of my 
experiences with the set thus far.

I chose the Roberts Ecologic 4 DAB/DAB+ portable digital radio  as I know 
people who are using it and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people are 
on this list so hello to you and I hope you're enjoying the rich listening 
experience which Digital Radio in the capital cities of Mainland Australia 
offers.

Now I have to warn you of a couple of things here, when you initially turn the 
set on it will do a scan of the DAB+ bands in Australia and DAB bands if you're 
in the U.K., so far so good.  The next challenge you have is finding what you 
want and I've found ways to scroll through or "seek" stations, once you've 
found what you want you can put that station into the preset memory by holding 
down the button you want the station to be associated with, say button 1 or if 
you want to use the presets above 5 hold down the shift key and then old down 
preset 1 for preset 6, you can just press the preset then of the desired 
station you want so others may find it easier to have someone sighted go 
through the stations and that way you can nominate the one's you want in the 
preset channels.

I live about 24 miles away from the centre of Melbourne so signal is probably 
fairly week and I'll talk more about that in a few moments.

I've noticed that in Melbourne stations are sorted in alphabetical order which 
may make things easier when you're setting the presets, for example suppose you 
know you're listening to ABC Local Radio 774, turn the selector knob once 
clockwise and press the select button, you'll then be on 3mp+, turn it 2  
clicks and you're on 3MP etc so perhaps a few notes taken will be handy here.

Digital radios are a bit of a pest in that you have to be careful of placement 
and the Roberts Ecologic 4 in my experience thus far is no exception, I'd like 
to have it in the back room but the radio and my computers just don't get on so 
the radio is on the top of my fridge in my kitchen and even then! I had to 
adjust the aerial to exactly the right angle, you know if you don't get a 
signal on the Ecologic 4 as the sound drops out totally so I wouldn't recommend 
you walk around the house with one of these things even though the set is a 
good tough portable.

the radio runs on both AC mains and battery power, its claimed in the manual 
that the Roberts Ecologic 4 radio will last up to 150 hours on a set of 
alkaline batteries.

Sound quality exceeded my expectations for such a small set, the radio has both 
headphones and line output.

Last but not least, the radio has a FM band for those times when you can't 
receive a digital signal and why this radio doesn't have a standard AM 
broadcast band I'll never know, do the manufacturers of digital radio sets 
think we just live with a FM band even though top rating radio stations in 
Melbourne and Sydney for instance are on the AM band?



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Re: Recording voice podcasts on my PC

[tim cumings]

Hi, Frank. , check out this article. 
http://transom.org/?p=7524
It's basic but will give you a starting point. Let me know if you have any more 
questions.  On Mon, 15 Mar 
2010 23:52:09 -0400, Frank Ventura wrote:


>Hi all I am going to be making a few audio tutorials and recording them
>on y PC, most likely with Total Recorder. I need a few recommendations
>as to some of the hardware that I should be using. I already have an 8
>channel mixer with analog outputs. What sound card is recommended for
>input to the computer to plug the mixer into to? Also for recording
>voice when looking at microphones what frequency range is recommended?
>Thanks
>Frank Ventura
>
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Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION

[Jerry Howell]

To add just a note,  On my NLS digital player the head phone jack is indeed 
stereo, but if you move off of normal on the speed, the mode goes to mono. 
The sound distorts more the farther you get from normal, but if you do get 
mono, you mite want to check to make sure the speed is indeed normal.


Jerry Howell
http://www.howellmobility.com

- Original Message - 
From: "djc" 

To: 
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION



They use an encrypted format for the books. The headphone jack is stereo.
This will play mp3 and wave formats for audio.
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On 3/12/2010 at 11:38 AM DJ DOCTOR P wrote:


Hello List members,
I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail.
I have a few questions about it.
For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive.
What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this
machine to play them?
I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo?
It has a monaural speaker built in to it.
But I'm asking about its headphone jack.
I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built
in to them before.
But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in
stereo.
Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do

this?

Thinks in advance.
My best regards.
 John.
PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books?
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Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION

[Kelly Pierce]

In addition to playing NLS books, the digital player also plays books
from Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.  The entire 58,000 book
RFB&D collection is available digitally, unlike the NLS collection.
Currently, registration and membership for downloadable books is free.
 If you are currently receiving services through NLS, verification of
disability can be done without sending in medical paperwork.  The
RFB&D books co-exist on my USB drive with the NLS books with no
problem.  It is necessary to install an RFB&D activation key on the
NLS player.

I was advised by several end users to only purchase the Kingston Data
Traveler model 101 or 102 for the NLS player.  I am using a
four-gigabyte version of the 102 series with absolutely no problems.

Kelly




On 3/14/10, glenna burgess  wrote:
> I wonder if they shouldn't put that in th4e help file? Glenna
> - Original Message -
> From: "Robert doc Wright" 
> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
>
>
>> Until the email I saw the other day  I had no clue about an
>> "audio+podcasts"
>> folder.
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Christopher Chaltain" 
>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
>>
>>
>>> So you didn't see the other folders and files in the Bookshelf? I know
>>> I've played MP3's that weren't in the Audio+Podcasts folder, but maybe
>>> this is the only folder that shows up in the Bookshelf.
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> Christopher
>>> chalt...@gmail.com 
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/13/2010 8:32 PM, Robert doc Wright wrote:
 One thing I noticed today. I added a book from bard to my mp3 player. It
 had no problems finding the book. It ignored the other folders on the
 player. When I connected another player with just mp3 files it would
 then
 see the folders that were available.
 - Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain"
 
 To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
 Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:33 AM
 Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION


> This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my
> DTBM
> play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this
> out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was
> using
> to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was
> getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a
> defect, so don't count on it.
>
> --
> Christopher
> chalt...@gmail.com
>
>
> On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote:
>> if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder
>> on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of
>> the
>> files it will number them.
>> - Original Message - From: "dan kysor" 
>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
>> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM
>> Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
>>
>>
>>> you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device.
>>>
>>> I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls
>>> formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire
>>> grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files.
>>> Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier
>>> chapters and the darn thing works!
>>> Not sure about stereo, havent check that out.
>>> Dan
>>>
 - Original Message -
 From: "DJ DOCTOR P" >>> To: "PC audio discussion list.  " >>> Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500
 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
>>>
 Hello List members,
 I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail.
 I have a few questions about it.
 For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive.
 What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for
>>> this machine to play them?
 I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo?
 It has a monaural speaker built in to it.
 But I'm asking about its headphone jack.
 I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono
>>> speakers built in to them before.
 But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came
>>> out in stereo.
 Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that
>>> can do this?
 Thinks in advance.
 My best regards.
  John.
 PS.  Where is a good website to download digital talking books?

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RE: Recording voice podcasts on my PC

[Frank Ventura]

Tim, thanks actually I have a SB audigy here as well so I will stick
with that.
Frank

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[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of tim cumings
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:22 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Recording voice podcasts on my PC

Hi, Frank. I use one of the soundblaster audigy cards on my pc and it
works fine. As long as your mixer has relatively quiet preamps and your
sound card has a line input you should be fine. On Mon, 15 Mar 2010
23:52:09 -0400, Frank Ventura wrote:


>Hi all I am going to be making a few audio tutorials and recording them

>on y PC, most likely with Total Recorder. I need a few recommendations 
>as to some of the hardware that I should be using. I already have an 8 
>channel mixer with analog outputs. What sound card is recommended for 
>input to the computer to plug the mixer into to? Also for recording 
>voice when looking at microphones what frequency range is recommended?
>Thanks
>Frank Ventura
>
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Re: recording multiple inputs in windows 7

[David Bailes]

Hi Brett,

my understanding is that Audacity can only record a single device. So if you 
want to use audacity you could either use a hardware mixer as input or get 
windows 7 to do the mixing. To do the latter:
1. Enable software playthrough for both the microphone and the line in. On the 
recording page of the sound dialog, for each device, select it, press spacebar 
to open its properties dialog, go to the listen page, and check the listen to 
this device check box.
2. Record "stereo mix" or whatever it's called on your sound card.

David.

original message:
Ok. I have a windows 7 machine and I'm running the latest beta from audacity. 
The only problem, so far, is I cannot record my line-in combined with my front 
mike. I've checked and unchecked different properties in the sound pannel. I 
can record one or the other.
Any ideas?
bb
Brett Boyer



  

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Re: Recording voice podcasts on my PC

[tim cumings]

Hi, Frank. I use one of the soundblaster audigy cards on my pc and it works 
fine. As long as 
your mixer has relatively quiet preamps and your sound card has a line input 
you should be fine. On 
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:52:09 -0400, Frank Ventura wrote:


>Hi all I am going to be making a few audio tutorials and recording them
>on y PC, most likely with Total Recorder. I need a few recommendations
>as to some of the hardware that I should be using. I already have an 8
>channel mixer with analog outputs. What sound card is recommended for
>input to the computer to plug the mixer into to? Also for recording
>voice when looking at microphones what frequency range is recommended?
>Thanks
>Frank Ventura
>
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