I was going to do one at 100% but it started hailing as you will hear.
I assume its an amp issue but being USB mic my software does not manage the device. I adjusted levels, there is no boost. many forums suggested its an EMF issue but i cycled computers and usb ports. I even isolated the mic in a room without electronics.
All microphones have preamplifier noise. Microphone signals, the signal actually generated by your voice are really small and it’s difficult to boost them with nothing else going wrong. The object is to make the voice really loud and the noise really small.
USB microphones also suffer from “convenience” problems. Everything is built into one unit which is convenient until you need to change one of the things.
Instead of straight hiss, do you have Frying Mosquitoes? A whining sound in addition to the noise?
That’s an interaction between the processes in the computer and the microphone through the USB system. You may find as I did, that if you stick with a recording long enough and make the computer do other things, that you can hear the hard drive spin up and down.
There’s no known cure. We’ve been through all the variations: make the USB cable shorter, make it longer, put a powered hub in, take one out, etc. There is no one single thing that always helps.
It is down in the -45dB range which is pretty good for a cheap microphone, but it has the singular problem of sounding at the same pitch as children screaming on a jet.
So. One more posting. Record something, your voice, at normal volume. This is what it should more or less look like.
Hi, I was wondering if you ever solved your problem? I just purchased the same mic, and have the exact same issue. I have a friend who recommended this mic to me over blue yeti, and I have heard his stuff, I don’t know why mine is being awful. If you found a work around, please post, thanks.
Moderator note: I removed your repeat post - unfortunately we had to introduce moderation of posts a while back to prevent a flood of spam, some of it unpleasant and some downright dangerous.
I have had background noise on my Mac with every single microphone that I have used – USB, 1/8" jack, you name it.
I use a software solution to do live denoise of the signal. If you are on Windows, the specific tech will be different but the principles are the same.
Here is the general “algorithm”.
Overview: We are trying to take your microphone signal, and put a filter that takes noise out of the signal (in software), and afterwards sends it to the program you want.
Tell your OS that a fake Microphone / Output device exists
