There are good inexpensive mixers from sound professionals and the staff is usually knowledgeable. One brand is Rols.
You can also check out your radio shack--the last time a friend of mine looked there were around three under $110 Hope this helps, Judy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Ford Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 5:52 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Recording Basics Any suggestions on a good mixer? If there are blogs are other links where this has been asked repeatedly and answered, feel free to point me there. -----Original Message----- From: Kelly Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:48 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: Recording Basics Hello, I'd appreciate any advice folks who have more experience doing PC recording can share on basic setup to produce reasonable recordings of screen reader audio along with voice recording. I have some experience in the area but most of my recording has been making edits to sound files I record with another audio recorder. I have a Sound Blaster 2ZS and my biggest frustration is that the microphone audio volume sounds low. I'm using the what you hear option to do my recording at this point. I have the playback of the microphone enabled in the sound settings. I also have the 20DB boost option checked. If I turn the microphone volume up to a level that sounds good to me, I get some electronic hum mixed in that I don't like. The hum is there even if there is no microphone connected to the microphone jack of the Sound Blaster. As an experiment I tried a notebook computer I have and the sound card on that is just some intel integrated audio card but the sound was much cleaner out of the box. I'm using Goldwave for my recording program. I'd like to get more into this for some projects I'm doing. I may go down the road of an external mixer at some point but for now I'd like to see if I can get the software solutions to work. I put a sampel of the audio and hum I'm talking about at http://workshop.kellyford.org/mctest.mp3. Kelly Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
