Blue Yeti or 2 XLR mics with mixer for podcasting?
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Re: Blue Yeti or 2 XLR mics with mixer for podcasting?
It's not your switch Koz... I get "episode unavailable as well".
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Re: Blue Yeti or 2 XLR mics with mixer for podcasting?
Sorry, yeah, haven't paid for hosting in some time so I guess the files aren't online anywhere 
You're not missing much though!
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Re: Blue Yeti or 2 XLR mics with mixer for podcasting?
I'm surprised that the listings are still there, but the content behind them is gone. iTunes is usually better at that. Maybe it's a quirk of the search system. If I didn't already know it was there, I'd never find it any other way.
One "problem" microphones have is an enormous signal range. Real life doesn't fit into a sound recorder. The classic way to get around this is a knob..or two...or three. Sound mixers bigger than a certain size generally have three different ways to set show volume.
Even those eight-foot long recording studio monster mixers don't go much beyond three (but they can do it to forty different microphones).
So how do USB microphones or other devices with only one adjustment do it? Fudging. They assume most people are going to want to talk or sing into one, so that's what they're set for. This kills people trying to record their expressive acoustic guitar and that's a constant complaint on the forum. I have a Shure X2U microphone preamplifier and I've never used it at anything but full volume setting—and it's not enough.
I complained about it and Shure said that's the way it is.
Low volume is generally manageable if you're careful with environment noises, etc, but overload and clipping is immediately fatal, so all these devices come out of the shrink wrap at low volume. Yet another reason you wouldn't want to mix a bunch of them into one show.
Koz
One "problem" microphones have is an enormous signal range. Real life doesn't fit into a sound recorder. The classic way to get around this is a knob..or two...or three. Sound mixers bigger than a certain size generally have three different ways to set show volume.
Even those eight-foot long recording studio monster mixers don't go much beyond three (but they can do it to forty different microphones).
So how do USB microphones or other devices with only one adjustment do it? Fudging. They assume most people are going to want to talk or sing into one, so that's what they're set for. This kills people trying to record their expressive acoustic guitar and that's a constant complaint on the forum. I have a Shure X2U microphone preamplifier and I've never used it at anything but full volume setting—and it's not enough.
I complained about it and Shure said that's the way it is.
Low volume is generally manageable if you're careful with environment noises, etc, but overload and clipping is immediately fatal, so all these devices come out of the shrink wrap at low volume. Yet another reason you wouldn't want to mix a bunch of them into one show.
Koz