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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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.
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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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