New equipment
02 Jun 2008 01:08 Author: At-Risk
Panther
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been slowly buying new
equipment for the podcast. Among the things I
purchased are five new dynamic vocal mics.
Admittedly, they’re el-cheapo microphones, but
considering that this isn’t exactly being mastered at
24-bit, 96 kHz, I don’t think mic quality would make
that big a difference. It’s enough that each host now
has his own mic.
From here out, you should hopefully notice much less background noise. Earlier, we miced two of the hosts with lapel mics and the other two with a single vocal condensor microphone. Since they can’t both be properly positioned for that single mic comfortably, I had to turn up the gain and step it back a little. Now that we can get a mic a few inches away from everyone, there is no need for that, so the mics won’t pick up as much room noise.
I have some other changes that I’m working on, but I’m not sure how well they will work. If I’m able to get good results, I’ll post more about them. For now, it’ll have to be enough to know that I’m not just sitting around and that I’m actively trying to improve things.
From here out, you should hopefully notice much less background noise. Earlier, we miced two of the hosts with lapel mics and the other two with a single vocal condensor microphone. Since they can’t both be properly positioned for that single mic comfortably, I had to turn up the gain and step it back a little. Now that we can get a mic a few inches away from everyone, there is no need for that, so the mics won’t pick up as much room noise.
I have some other changes that I’m working on, but I’m not sure how well they will work. If I’m able to get good results, I’ll post more about them. For now, it’ll have to be enough to know that I’m not just sitting around and that I’m actively trying to improve things.