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One microphone oddity. The NT1-A takes 48v Phantom Power. So that has to be switched on in the back of the UMC22 preamp. Condenser microphones work by having your voice vibrate a very thin, round metal film. You may be able to see it if you get the light just right. That can generate a very high qua...

The NT1-A is a side-fire microphone. You talk into the side, not the end like a rock band microphone. The instructions have you speaking into the gold dot. Many microphones put the company name right there, but Rode apparently didn't. The microphone works correctly upside-down or right-side up. It h...

I didn't need the left-hand computer at all. The only requirement is a stereo recorder. The mixer is a little magic. I used FX Send as a separate mixer to feed Skype the "microphone." I needed a total mix for the show, but I couldn't send Denise back to herself. The broadcast people call t...

Not directly no, but that's not how I did it. I used the Hardware Solution. I used two computers and a sound mixer. One computer (on the right) is running Skype and it thinks it's King of the World and I let it think that. I provide separate Send and Receive pathways to a small sound mixer. http://k...

I have 14 books (and counting) You will be busy. Fair warning many people get to the end of the first book and want to read it over. The two ends of the book don't match. At the beginning you were a rank amateur foolin'-around reader and at the end, weeks later, you're a polished pro. Usually that ...

Audacity doesn't have stiff, firm, Mark-In and Mark-Out or Set-In and Set-Out like you're used to. We can get sorta close with Labels and some of the other timeline management tools.

This is going to be a shock.

Koz

I like your voice and I think you would make a good audiobook reader. So we got that part down. There was a recent posting from a reader who had been using an IRL studio successfully and decided to try it at home. They are running into the same problems you are. Studios are there for a reason and it...

as if it had just been imported Did you keep a clean copy of the work separate from your editing? It's a common New User problem to import the only clean copy of the work and then write corrections to it during editing. If Anything Goes Wrong, that's the end of the show. Audacity could lose the cur...

I just bought an iPhone and recorded it on that? That has not been a walk in the park, either. I'm scheduling a trip to the Apple store to find the magic of getting the recorded sound files between the iPhone and my Macs so I can process them in Audacity. The published methods don't work for me and...