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Hat-trick
Yesterday I had to record some spoken word in a rather noisy small room. The noise was mostly from computers and the like. Because of this I picked a dynamic microphone (a Shure SM58) instead of a condenser and thought that if I just pointed it away from the source of the noise it would […]
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Basic mic techniques
So you’ve got your microphone hooked up to your computer, it receives sound and you have found the record button. However, when you try to record your voice it just doesn’t sound good. What’s the problem? Today I’m going to discuss some general techniques for recording through a microphone. I’ll follow up this post at […]
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More on digital file formats
Just a quick post to say that the next part on digital file formats is now up on Broadcast Engineering. Originally posted on September 11, 2010 @ 3:29 am