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Missed one or two. Were you planning on reading The Actual Book? You can get into trouble by reading the work on-line while you're recording on the same machine. Kindle or other stand-alone or tablet device works. I print mine out on paper, but then I'm not reading a whole book. Phones are not recom...

While that's happening, did you get the specialized tools and ACX-Check? When the mixer comes in may be a bad time to start struggling with the software. You could have been doing that with your old microphone. Mastering Suite 4 works in three steps: Rumble filter, set RMS (Loudness) and set peaks (...

They don't tell you about all these problems when you buy the microphone. The modern style of bare white walls and plain polished wooden floors is considered an actively hostile recording environment. We learn pretty quickly you can't show up at an actor's house, record a quick track and go home—unl...

record from the device in stand-alone mode That's recommended if you have enough trouble recording with the computer on. And no, that won't do you a bit of good if you're overdubbing. Still, the idea behind overdubbing is to create the song yourself one instrument at a time. Isn't it a little rough...

Even more basic, do you have the power light on the 802? Can you make the 802 sound meter jump if you speak (never blow) into the microphone?


The 802 doesn't need the computer connection to be a working mixer.

Koz

That's hard to write.

Say you build the tunnel. If you weren't there, the tunnel should not aim straight toward a flat wall.

Koz

That was a Very Important Sound Shoot (Broadcast Radio Interview) so we double recorded it. The one on the right was the performer's backup. We didn't need the sound shield, but I didn't really care. The conference room was totally soundproofed. Those are padded walls. Your microphone is mostly sens...

Behringer Xenyx Q802USB Mixer should work. It plugs into the wall power, so no mosquito whine. It has direct connections to the computer's USB. No extra adapters. It has 48volt Phantom Power. It's the tiny 502 mixer that has the goofball 15 volt phantom power. This mixer should let you plug your hea...

One really out-there note. There is one current sound mixer that does not supply 48 volts. You have to pay attention. They scream WILL SUPPLY PHANTOM POWER!!!!! and down at the bottom of the ad it says [15 volt phantom power].

Run away.

Koz

No, not really. Audacity can't split apart voices, instruments or sounds from a mixed performance. Once everything is smooched into one sound file, that's the end. Is one voice a lot louder than the other? Is this a Skype podcast? Sometimes we can use one of the production filters to make them close...