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Your apartment is cool. Your environment sucks. You might get away with that. Can you rent equipment to set up and see? That process is very difficult to control. One prominent podcast tried that and the lead performer loved to "hog" his microphone with loud and distorted voice. You know t...

Transom.org is a web site that tells you how to capture sound and do radio production. People write checks to these people, so their stuff tends to work, repeatedly. http://transom.org/ You picked a hideously difficult job. People complain all the time that they don't want pro work, they just want t...

This is where I would jump in with the equipment list, except there is no equipment list. The grownups on the radio side would be using a shotgun microphone normally used for long-distance or film/video shoots on a pole. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/Boom.jpg But hand-held instead, jammed into ...

We are going to have dueling posts and eventually, your moderation will fall away and you'll be able to post directly. Koz

What's very, very serious about this problem is that I can't wave my wand and make the problems go away. There is no good, cheap way to shoot group sound in your apartment other than getting closer and louder to the microphone than the echoes are. Your sound clips (so far) are examples of misusing N...

Unfortunately, I don't have a non noise-reduced copy.

Never destroy or damage original capture sound files and never reuse filenames.

You should have said: "Here let me post the original performance for you [boop]. Done.

Koz

This microphone switches capsules in and out to get the various patterns. Are you sure you got the Figure of Eight and not the Stereo pattern? Are you sure you're positioning yourself at the two sensitive points? Here's a trick. Figure of Eight has two null points, one on each side. If you talk into...

It's possible that the Figure or Eight pattern isn't even. If the microphone has an Omnidirectional setting, chances are good that one isn't even, either.

Koz

The sound clips should be pre-correction. Posting what happens after you mis-correct a sound performance doesn't tell us anything, other than you may have used the tools wrong. I know people who will refuse to record quality sound in a modern apartment for just the problems you're having. We can't c...

Every time you press Record and then Stop and then Record, Audacity will start a new track under the old one. You can avoid that by Pressing Shift-R which is Append Record. Audacity will smash the new track at the end of the old one. You can also end the old track with Record Pause (P) instead of St...