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Doesn't have to be direct radiation into the microphone. That USB cable makes a dandy antenna. Are you using a standard USB cable about 6' (2M) long? If you have a standard length cheap cable or an extended cable, those can more easily pick up trash from the air. A lot of this is guesswork and we ca...

Oh, wait. I'm asleep. Cellphone. That's classic cellphone negotiation and connection management. Were you holding a cellphone close to a consumer-grade USB microphone? It doesn't matter if it says "Studio Professional Broadcast Microphone" on the box. If it cost much under about $100, it's...

I think it might be worse than it looks in waveform It looks pretty bad in the waveform. The blue waves only show the top 25dB or so of the show sound out of about 96dB. In English, anything that appears on the timeline is going to be a significant percentage of the show. The show is trash, but I'm...

In my opinion, the H2 sounds a bit better On a guess I would say the original H2 had good microphones and a careful design.The H2n was a result of Marketing and Promotion getting their fingers in. They got a good deal on "slightly lower quality" generic microphones and made up for it by p...

We publish ACX Check which will tell you, most times, how well you're matching the three ACX sound specifications. It is possible to fake it out because it needs at least 3/4 second of background sound—Room Tone—to measure noise. If you never stopped talking long enough for it to work, it will give ...

Come Thursday I will be back in business. We should remember that by "Back In Business" we mean getting good at recording your voice without all the computer problems. Did you print out your work? Are you going to read it from a tablet or other electronic device? All work, but whatever yo...

I have and use successfully an Olympus WS-823 recorder. I can literally hide it in my hand. It uses AAA batteries or rechargables. It records in perfect stereo WAV format and has comprehensive controls so I can make it do exactly what I want. Olympus thought it was too complicated and discontinued i...

Do you use the computer for anything else? The Audacity project for our file is pretty massive, using 97 tracks You may have engineered your way out of using a regular computer for this. Audacity manages the sound for your work (not the actual files) and it does it in super high quality internal for...

Ding! Emily Bazelon of the New York Times uses a Zoom H1n. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/technology/personaltech/skype-voice-recorders-foias.html The user of the H5 was using its ability to plug in extra microphones. First paragraph in this post. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=4...

Ocracoke Rules! I have the getting-on-in-years H4. HudsonValleyH4-2.jpg HudsonValleyH4Mastered.wav Nobody is beating down my door to read anything, but it does pass ACX testing with just Mastering Suite corrections and a teensy bit of noise reduction. Screen Shot 2019-02-04 at 21.24.39.png The H5 is...