Hi all – I’ll admit it, my audio recordings used to suck…and suck badly.
It sounded like I was talking from the inside of a tin can – I can’t imagine how people would sit through 1-hour of information listening to that.
Even worse, what I had to say was valuable, I wanted people to hear – in fact some of these were interviews with the very top names in internet marketing discussing purely brilliant concepts, ideas and experiences…but due to my mistakes, these audios were horrible to listen to.
What was wrong?
My voice was too quiet, too thin, it sounded like I was a mile away from the microphone. In many cases the background noise was unacceptable and because there was constant background noise the files were actually large – even though most of the contents was background noise.
For a while I looked at using all kinds of fancy audio editors and plugins to elimintate background noise, improve the volume of the audio, remove annoying pops, and apply all sorts of filters – but that just made the file bigger and the sound worse.
In the meantime I tried microphone after microphone – most of them headsets, lavaliers, you name it. I had spent over $200 in different low-end mics trying to improve the sound.
Then it struck me…why not just invest in a quality studio microphone and be done with it.
What a difference!
Suddenly my voice sounded full, deep, professional and like I was sitting right in front of my listener.
Even better…no more editing, filters, or time-consuming screwing around with the audio to try and improve the sound.
I now use the microphone on ALL of my audio products including audio newsletters, audio podcasts, interviews, audio checklists and e-books that I record.
Let me tell you – the sound is amazing.
Here are a few of the top condensor microphones you will want to take a look at…
1. Audio Technica AT2020
I’ve used many Audio Technica microphones over the years and always found them to be among the leaders in price and performance – this would be my top recommendation for someone who wants to record excellent voice quality for voice or acoustic instrument recordings. With this microphone you will need to have an external mixer providing phantom power.
One of the more reasonably priced, high quality studio microphones AND it connects directly to any PC using USB. In this case, you won’t need an external mixer, but would input the MIC right into the USB jack of your computer where it gets its power and can be recorded directly by a product like Audacity.
to hold your microphone and maximize audio quality.
As you can see, for under $100 you can get a top quality studio microphone that will make you sound like a professional audio studio and save you hours (if not days) of editing time.
