What’s your room like? Fashionable polished wooden floors? We publish a Kitchen Table Sound Studio which can take most if not all the “announcing in a bathroom” sound out of a voice. They make pre-baked versions of this as well at higher cost.
There is no taking echo out of a voice in software later. Once you echo, you’re stuck.
first audiobook with an H1 zoom recorder
A Zoom H1n? My H1n has a clean, pure vocal sound, but there is one odd application problem. You shouldn’t use it as a microphone—but you can. You can set up the H1n as a USB Microphone and record your voice directly in Audacity in the computer. Do Not do that. The computer will apply all its corrections, filters, effects, and modifications to your voice and you will spend ages finding the distortions and turning them all off.
As an experiment, record a test on your H1n not connected to anything and using the on-board battery and memory chip.
Then connect the USB cable and copy the sound file to the computer and listen to it. You can pull the memory chip out of the H1n and move it to the computer that way, but I’m not a fan. The memory system is not designed for constant moving chips around.
If that sounds cleaner, you can leave the USB cable connected and that should make it so you don’t have to change the batteries. Continue to record to the H1n memory and transfer later.
If you have the largest memory chip (32GB), you should be able to record stereo for 48 hours before running out. This also gives you a built-in backup for your raw recording performances.
Fix your studio, record a test on batteries and post it here. No filters or processing. Raw recording.
https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html
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