Audacity Forum

@Line40, not all of the sound cards are crap. Some of them are actually worth the money. The reason micro-phone recording is not that well in most sound cards is that while designing these cards, the main consideration is not the audio input quality, it’s the audio output quality and gaining maximu...

The 2.2K resistor is appropriate for the original 5 volt supply in the computer. Since you're using 9 volts, it can be higher. Hmm, I do not quite understand that, I thought that increasing the value on the resistor would decrease voltage for the mic capsule goes? I would imagine the output level g...

Hello forum I recently started recording voice (spoken only so far) on my PC and soon found out that internal/external sound cards are a waste of money, since almost all of them have low quality, noisy microphone preamps. I also wanted a portable solution, that would be usable with decent results in...