Basilosauridae
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Hi everyone! I'm totally new to audio engineering and recently purchases a real microphone (Shure SM58) when I had been using my laptop mic. I have no idea what I should be doing to make this podcast audio the best it can be.
With my laptop mic I was applying a high pass filter at 80db and low pass filter at 9000 db, and then very slightly boosting 100-200 frequencies, and applying compression at -12 db, noise floor -40db, ratio 3:1, 0.2 second attack and 1 second release time. Compression is the thing I understand the least, at least, what I should be aiming for. Not sure if any of things things are what I should be doing now that I have a real mic (or if I should have been doing those things at all in the first place)
I have a clip of the first 40 or so seconds of the episode here without any mixing (since I'm new it won't let me post a link, sorry for the annoying format). The room noise is quite louder than the laptop mic, not sure if that is necessarily bad or if that is just how it is since the mic is more powerful. I've never worked with an audio interface before and will probably turn the gain down a tiny bit next time.
Any feedback or tips is appreciated! I don't know what I'm doing but I'd really like to.
drive.google DOT COM/file/d/1IkZYLHwePN6pJkR-ZgdglVx8lxxK-ipB/view?usp=sharing
With my laptop mic I was applying a high pass filter at 80db and low pass filter at 9000 db, and then very slightly boosting 100-200 frequencies, and applying compression at -12 db, noise floor -40db, ratio 3:1, 0.2 second attack and 1 second release time. Compression is the thing I understand the least, at least, what I should be aiming for. Not sure if any of things things are what I should be doing now that I have a real mic (or if I should have been doing those things at all in the first place)
I have a clip of the first 40 or so seconds of the episode here without any mixing (since I'm new it won't let me post a link, sorry for the annoying format). The room noise is quite louder than the laptop mic, not sure if that is necessarily bad or if that is just how it is since the mic is more powerful. I've never worked with an audio interface before and will probably turn the gain down a tiny bit next time.
Any feedback or tips is appreciated! I don't know what I'm doing but I'd really like to.
drive.google DOT COM/file/d/1IkZYLHwePN6pJkR-ZgdglVx8lxxK-ipB/view?usp=sharing