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Pick a web page that shows your microphone. All the pages I see are for USB microphones and they won't plug into the pink socket of a soundcard.

The sound is awful. There's something very serious wrong. Normal microphone problems don't produce that honky, talking into a bucket sound with hiss behind it.

Koz

yep it is a logic3 mic on a small white base and it plugs into the pink socket.

mic boost ? you d think that would be somewhere in preferences !

Ive got a big pioneer music deck with mic in and phones out etc

I might give that a go to get an amplified signal into my comp
that might get rid of the fuzz ?

stardust2003 wrote:mic boost ? you d think that would be somewhere in preferences !

I have said twice now where to check that.

stardust2003 wrote:Ive got a big pioneer music deck with mic in and phones out etc

I might give that a go to get an amplified signal into my comp
that might get rid of the fuzz ?

If the Pioneer mic input is suitable for your mic it probably won't make any difference, unless Pioneer connects to the computer via USB and the source of the noise is the motherboard audio (or unless "mic boost" is the problem).


Gale

JUST recorded an voice audio... fuzz there of course

hit ......... effects

then noise removal........

I applied this to the audio....
quite good results, a lot of the fuzz removed

I then went and applied a bit of amp to the file and the result is not too bad,
a lot better than the original .

stardust2003 wrote:JUST recorded an voice audio... fuzz there of course

hit ......... effects

then noise removal........

I applied this to the audio....
quite good results, a lot of the fuzz removed

So are you still connecting the mic to the pink mic input on the computer? Or was the mic connected to the Pioneer?

The sample you posted before was really poor, so it would be better to fix the problem, ideally. Most Noise Removal also damages the audio to some extent, so the trick is to remove as much noise as you can without being able to hear degradation in the sound.

It would be a good idea to go into the Windows "Sounds and Audio Devices" control panel and look at all the options for the mic.

Gale

interesting vid I found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1utQ5A ... -mG4s5xRhO

Ive was recording at recording vol 80 .............. playback vol 40
and getting fuzz on sound

just recorded using recording vol .... 20 and playback.... 18 and got good vol playback
but none of the fuzz.......... using logic 3 mic

Computer mic ports almost always have a boost setting in Windows. If that boost is on then you will probably want to turn the input level down.


Gale

Have also just bought a sony voice recorder...... about 4 inches by 1 and half inches....

prob the kind the secretaries use ?

The recording quality seems good, I can record on there and then feed result into audacity !