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If I sang, it would be Johnny Cash. For spoken word, either Richard Burton or Jean Shepherd, depending on the topic!

You built a podcasting setup Agreed. Garbage in, garbage out. You need to work from the ground up to get a better quality bit of kit. I don't sing, but I do a lot of VO work from home. I have a decent XLR powered mic and a Tascam recorder that supports it and NO PC generating fan noise and...

Find Adobe Audition 1.5. Works best if you have a second HD for temp files. Cool Edit became Audion.

Another possible choice: Sony mdr-7506.

Didn't know she was on camera. A Sennheiser wireless mic outfit will set you back at east $500, but it is good enough to double as a studio mic.

How much noise is your laptop fan and hard drive making? I have been recording audiobooks, voice-overs and more for way past 20 years. One of my products, an audio tech tutorial, sold to a large company for $35,000 (it was cheaper for them to buy my thing than write, record, edit, etc. the...

one more thing. What will you do with the recordings? If the end product is that they will ONLY be transcribed, then another insanely cheap alternative may come up. There are cheap "gum" video cameras that are the size of USB stick or a pack of gum. While the so-called HD video of the...

Sound like respooled cart-machine tape. I bought some HUGE pancake spools of tape that turned out to be for loading the cart machine cartridges once used in radio stations. It was worthless. I suspect there is a lot of it still floating around as surplus. The black backing and the fact that...

With eBay, the customer is always right., even if they are not. Take it back.

No to drugs but a funny story about a prescription. A few years back I ate something that gave me a servere allergic reaction...blew up like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. I was prescribed some steroid tablets that had a side effect of a mild upper or eurphoria. That week I needed (via phone) to...

Here's a comparison of what you are getting at... "It occurred to me back around the turn of the century that a lot of the things that we like about all the fancy vintage and boutique $$$ equipment is the way that it fails to perform it's intended function." Somewhere in the 1970's, makers of...

Depends on what I am recording I realize this thread is primarily for musicians, but I do see a number of people mentioning Adobe Audition. AA is standard for a LOT of radio stations and voice-over types as it is simple and has the features we need, and not a lot more. Adobe keeps trying to...

Each voice has its own characteristics "Each voice has its own characteristics and one mic will benefit a voice but some others will make it sound worse." Ain't that the truth! One place I do work for has the standard ElectroVoice mics that have been around for years, and I sound OK on them...

This is pretty "sound" advice. You can always get another mic later, but the investment in the room acoustics starts paying off now and forever. Question: what are you recording? For example, I do voice-work, etc., and I have what amounts to a booth. If you are recording music, then you need...

Hi Folks! I'm not a musician, but a guy with about 30 years radio broadcasting as a DJ, news talk host, etc. Starting with splicing reel-to-reel tape, moved on DAT tapes and early digital recording with destructive (cannot be undone) edits and a 550 MB (not GB) SCSI drive that was for AV...

Just say no to cd recording. Jitters, skips, bad disks....record to a HD and burn later. I work for a place that provides CDs of lectures after a day's session and it is a two-step two person job. I'd seriously reconsider what you plan to do.

Very nice! That's really nice that you have a family that can do all that together! Merry Christmas!

Analong>USB interface I do voice audio for radio broadcasting. For a very long time I used and old Peavey analog board and a small box that let me plug in the RCA out from the board to it and then the box plugged into the PC via USB. I have also used a "Blue Icicle" with a little volume...

It seems that, unless the importer is Apple-like and maintains a very close watch on quality control, Chinese products can vary greatly from one to another. Part of the problem is when the maker buys components from another source and nobody is watching the quality at that end. I've...

Not USB adapter??? Blue Icicle accepts XLR mics and provides phantom power of needed. About $69.