How to make it sound a little less un-professional

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Hi all,


I downloadede Audiacity for the first time a few hours ago to record some sound for a radio spot. The problem is that my microphone of course isn’t up to professional standards.

This sound that I’m recording is going on danish nation-wide radio in a little over a week, and I need some way of making it sound more professional. Audiacity comes highly recommended so I’m sure it has a million ways of making it sound less home-made.

Here’s a link to the file.

http://www.hornskovvindberg.dk/test/radio.aup

I really hope some of you have an idea of how to do it.

Thanks in advance,
HornskovVindberg

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aup files don’t contain any audio.

You can attach about 5 seconds of stereo WAV file to a post on this forum (1Mb max).
[or post a link to an audio file in WAV, or FLAC, or MP3 format]

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Oh I wasn’t aware of that.

I’ve uploaded the entire thing to my server in wav format. Here’s a link:

http://www.hornskovvindberg.dk/test/radio.wav

What would you do to make it better?

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Only a little less unprofessional …

software other than audacity would do a better job of removing the pulsating digital noise, but nothing will make an 8KHz bandwidth VOIP type recording sound like it was made using professional recording equipment.

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The sound card is also poor.
Even a cheap USB microphone such as this is likely to give considerably better results: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&gs_upl=&q=logitech+microphone&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=16452149199579405298&sa=X&ei=uScWT5uqJIad8gO3_4nyBQ&ved=0CHIQ8wIwAQ

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Actually, for the future, I’d get one of these:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/H1/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=recording&utm_term=zoom_h1&adpos=1t2&gclid=COnV2YqQ6q4CFYQFRQodsm4eKg

Here’s how it sounds ( not a company demo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceaAieNmGAU&feature=related