So I'm trying to get into VO work, and to that end, my dear old dad, who was a BBC Producer a long time ago, gifted me a Stagg MCO-5W.
Now, I've been recording some bits and pieces as practice for demos, and I keep noticing that there's this "after image" effect trailing speech on the spectrogram, sort of like a hiss that survives my noise reduction. It's easy enough to silence after I stop speaking, but I'm worried that:
a) it's audible during my words as a very faint hiss/overlap, and
b) it means that there's some damage to the mic (it's probably older than I am, in fairness).
But since I've never done this before, I have no point of reference for whether it's just normal and I'm overly worrying or not.
The "bleed" I'm referring to looks like this (at the far right),
while my audio generally looks like this:
Should I be worried about this? Is there anything I can do? I did wonder if it was my room - lots of hard surfaces - but I tried it under a thick duvet where there was a lot more sound treatment and it didn't look significantly different.
Now, I've been recording some bits and pieces as practice for demos, and I keep noticing that there's this "after image" effect trailing speech on the spectrogram, sort of like a hiss that survives my noise reduction. It's easy enough to silence after I stop speaking, but I'm worried that:
a) it's audible during my words as a very faint hiss/overlap, and
b) it means that there's some damage to the mic (it's probably older than I am, in fairness).
But since I've never done this before, I have no point of reference for whether it's just normal and I'm overly worrying or not.
The "bleed" I'm referring to looks like this (at the far right),
while my audio generally looks like this:
Should I be worried about this? Is there anything I can do? I did wonder if it was my room - lots of hard surfaces - but I tried it under a thick duvet where there was a lot more sound treatment and it didn't look significantly different.