I found furniture moving blankets work pretty well. One of my favorite performers Josh Turner did the whole first half of his musical career on a Zoom H2. It’s possible to have serious, unrecoverable troubles recording on a computer (one recently on the forum) and an alternative method is a stand-alone sound recorder such as the Zoom series. You can get the Yeti if you want, but save the papers.ĭo you use Skype, Zoom, Meetings or other conferencing or chat application? They can interfere with ordinary voice recording. Please note we haven’t bought the Yeti yet. There is a format for posting a voice sound sample on the forum. Post back when you get Audacity installed on something and make your first voice recording. You can’t get real time voice quality control from the computer with a wireless connection. The Yeti has provision for plugging in wired headphones with 1/8' plug.

It helps keep your minute-to-minute volume, expression, and interpretation even. When you get set up, it’s a terrific idea to use sealed-on-the-head headphones and listen to yourself while you’re announcing. The current hero Audacity version is 3.1.3 and you can get it from here.Īudacity will play on all three major computer types, so it’s possible to capture your voice on a nice quiet Windows laptop and edit it on your big Mac with the good monitor and speakers (for example).

Have you ever recorded your voice on anything? They won’t pass your voice if you sound like you’re recording in a bathroom. Does your room have bare wood floors? That can be a problem. You can be an experienced hand at sound recording way before FedEx delivers your Yeti.ĭo you have a nice, quiet room with no echoes? That’s good.

You can install Audacity freely and for free on multiple computers, so you can install it on all your machines and see if they will record from the built-in microphone, if they have one. There’s just nothing like trying to take computer fan noises out of your voice in post production processing, particularly if the fan goes on and off. Is it a cookbook? There’s a list of book types that ACX doesn’t like. Can I buy it right now (flexing credit card)? You can read into a microphone all day long, but the work won’t go very far without that one step. One step right at the top of the ACX/Audible audiobook application process is to certify that your book is for sale on Amazon right now.

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