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significant amplification

How significant?

Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... html#skips

See if there's anything in there.

Koz

I think it's unlikely that you're listening to digital leakage on the SD card. This is what digital does best. You either have a performance there or you don't. There is no fractional sound. I have no trouble believing in sound leakage in the analog microphone during the recording. Any radio station...

What is The Microphone? Pretend I want to buy one. How is it connected? USB cable or plugged into the Pink Mic-In? We may be able to tell when you say what it is.

Laptop?

Koz

The Shure 55s is a Dynamic (moving coil) microphone and has no noise of its own. Where did -54 dB observed noise come from? Worse, apparently base noise, before you turn anything else on. I can do better than that with everything running in a quiet room and holding my breath.

Koz

The SM58 is directional and you can aim it. The Radio Shack isn't and is placed in the middle of the table.

Koz

Now picture echo cancellation and network delays when two or three locations have bad rooms. WHAT!! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU! Or worse yet: I _____wonder if I _______and then if_________[gargle][gargle]. You can do "fake" Pressure Zone with regular microphones. http://www.kozco.com/tech/auda...

All microphones / pre-amps produce some amount of "noise" (hum, buzz, hiss). Hiss, yes. Hum and buzz, no. Hum and buzz are environment problems and you can help that with shielding, positioning, eliminating buzzy lights, etc. etc. Hiss is atomic level and it's burned into the MicPre. No a...

There are two ways to do frequency analysis: Convert the timeline to Spectrogram with the drop-down menu on the left. That's frequency up the left and time along the bottom. There are techniques to edit that way, too. The other way is classic analyze > Plot Spectrum. That one is frequency along the ...

internal analog to digital converter It is and it's perfectly lovely. But it's high volume stereo, not low volume mono. It's suitable for connecting a sound mixer or cassette player, not a microphone. We have been describing to you several different ways of getting your microphone into the computer...