Audacity Forum

Dear All, First, I gotta tell you all that I love this forum. All you experts have cut the using decent audio equipment for podcasting learning curve way down. In fact I did the first show today, so now it's on to step 2. I've watched a number of youtube videos on doing phone interviews on your podc...

Koz,

Thank you for the response, I feel far more enlightened!

Jeff

First, I want to thank everyone who, through some really good preamp advice, reminded me that I had a Presonus Firepod which I never used until today. I had to get a firewire card to make it work, but that wasn't a big expense. Since two of the Firepod lines have phantom power, I've plugged the MXL ...

Steve,

With all of your help, I realized I should finally get the Presonus Firepod out of the box after all these years and, with a firewire card from Amazon, I'm good to go.

Thanks again!

Jeff

Steve,

Thank you for another great reply. Is there a particular USB audio interface that you or any other expert here would recommend - especially with potential expansion in mind?

Jeff

Dear DVDdoug, Thank you for your reply. I guess I was expecting too much of the equipment, though switching to mono recording made a huge difference in the Audacity sound quality. The fact that I already had the condenser mic and the cables made it an interesting and inexpensive experiment. If I did...

Trebor,

Thank you for the reply. I did think of the built-in microphone possibility, but quickly discovered (and remembered) my Dell Optiplex desktop has no built in mic. What did help the sound immensely is switching to mono recording.

Jeff

Dear Experts, I've done a small local Elgin, IL, radio show with a co-host for five years, and recently decided to go Net only on my own. To that end, I bought an MXL 990 microphone and some decent XLR cables for my wife years ago, so I thought I'd use those. I picked up an inexpensive Neewer 48v ph...