Without being too much of a pain in the neck, can you post a link to the page for your microphone? This microphone type can have some operation problems.
Thanks,
Koz
Oh snap … um…whaddya I plug my mic into?
Not a pain in the least man, I super appreciate the help. I hope by page you mean … the specs?
Brand new dude shrugs like, “Um… I dunno?”.
I’m making fresh coffee and doing a backup on my Office Machine (Mac Mini). You regularly back up your machines, right?
The Big Sound System will be back on-line shortly and I will be super boring with fine detail.
As we go.
Koz
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The Fifine is a side-fire microphone. You speak into the side grill of the microphone just up from the company name and volume control. I saw at least one illustration that had someone speaking into the round end. Don’t do that.
The Fifine is a directional microphone that only receives really well from the “correct” side (just above the company name). The volume and quality go down as you rotate the microphone.
As near as I can tell, you can’t plug wired headphones into the Fifine. So that’s one handy production trick that this microphone (and computer) can’t do.
As we go.
Koz
Continued thanks man, seriously.
K
Totally my fail on this one man, you were asking about a headphone plug-in, not the microphone plug-in.
Recording volume should be about -6dB or a little less. That works out to 50% or 0.5 on the left-hand vertical scale. I believe the latest Audacity has the ability to change the left-hand scale so the numbers match the bouncing sound meter. We have been requesting this change since the fifteenth century.
Many other sound programs already have this change.
A little less volume is OK, but a lot less may give you background noise problems (ffffff). You should not go much over. Any waves that hit 100% may become permanently damaged with cracking and popping. That’s overload or clipping. In English, the computer stops following your voice.
The damage is permanent.
As we go.
Koz
OK. Knowing all that, burn off another voice test and post it. Nobody will care if you cut off the end to make the ten seconds duration.
Announce seriously without getting hokey or cartoonish.
Koz
I need to leave for a bit. The two seconds of silence (Room Tone) at the beginning is there for a proof of announcing quality for audiobooks. No fair plugging in Generated Silence. It has to be the actual sound your room is making.
In general, if you can get acceptance for audiobooks, you can announce almost anywhere else.
Koz
I don’t know what that is… So I just turned on the recording and then like you said I didn’t breathe for two seconds which I think was a little bit more like four seconds because I didn’t want to knock anything over in my closet lol. I don’t know what generated silence is.
So what I did is I hit like the pause button and then the record button right and that kind of puts it in suspension… And then I hit the pause button and I just didn’t do anything for like three or four seconds and then whatever you hear is what the room well… My closet sounds like
That’s how it’s supposed to sound , (maybe the mic was around the wrong way that made the Catskill takes sound distant).
Now the bad news: your recording space is too resonant.
If you can’t hear it, It’s visible on the spectrogram the attenuation between 4000Hz and 6000Hz …
1" foam is not enough: this guy uses 4" absorber, on 3 walls & ceiling …
https://youtu.be/m1A6mxsmRO4?t=634 @t=10m35s
I doubt people will pay if they can hear the room in the recording.
Professional voice over’s you cannot tell from the recording what size of room they’re in, as the reflections of their voice from the walls have been absorbed by the acoustic treatment.
You can make Audacity create sounds. “Silence” is one of those sounds. Generate is one of the tools at the top of the program.
You shouldn’t be hitting any buttons. Take a deep breath. Start the recording.
“_____________Catskill Farms rich, creamy…”
You don’t have to make two seconds exactly. Anything over about a second will do.
Koz
Room Tone, or the room’s natural sounds is harder than you think. We can hear your shirt and pants moving and we can tell you right away if your chair squeaks.
You have to be there because your body affects sound reflections and echoes.
Koz
Still a bit baffled by this … are you saying I intentionally created, oh, generated silence? I barely know how to create a track lol. So, dunno … maybe I’m misunderstanding the lingo or something, but no, I didn’t use aud to create any sounds, or silence.
Figure of speech - watched a YT on Aud, they suggested - “tap” pause, then “tap” record. It arms the track. Then, just “tap”, pause and off one goes.
Totally. But in the Catskills recording did you hear any pants/shirts? Cuz I just stood there for :04 not moving.
No, but that’s part of the class.
“Say, Koz, Can we move around during the Room Tone segment?”
“No, he said, you can’t because your clothing can affect the recording.”
Koz