I’m recording and playing, editing at the CD quality rate but what the radio station wants is an MP3. What the end product for all this isn’t much different than podcasting. Hey Steve, I should have asked you first. Again, if all else is equal that is true, but again there are big differences between different models and makes.Ĭondenser mics need to be powered. Small diaphragm condenser mics tend to have higher Sound Pressure handling, higher dynamic range and wider frequency response than large diaphragm mics. All else being equal that is true, but there can be a huge variation between different makes and models. Large diaphragm condenser mics tend to have lower self noise than small diaphragm condenser mics, have higher sensitivity, and lower sound pressure handling.

That’s not always the case, but often is,ĭynamic mics tend to be more robust, have better rejection of handling noise, better feedback rejection in live applications, and able to handle higher sound pressure levels without sounding bad. So currently it is simply not working the way I have it setup.īut as far as recording with Audacity, it works and sound really good.Ĭondenser microphones tend to be a bit brighter than dynamic mics, are often more sensitive, and more easily overloaded. I don’t’ want to have clipped output in the recording in the first place. Part of the reason I went this route with the mini mixer board was because it did feature compression. I’m kind of new to this aspect of it and I’m wondering this kind of compression isn’t meant for condenser mics, since they are much more sensitive. The levels will peak in Audacity (clip) long before any of this. Well, to get this you have to have mic preamp turn up high and track level turn up high and then scream into the mic with the compression set to max. I’m using dynamic mics and the general rule for setting the compression is to “turn it up until the red light blinks” The other issue (general to mics and mixers) is I really cannot get the compression on the mixer board to work It wasn’t until I plugged the mouse into another port it worked again. I could select it as the record source but no sound.

The touchscreen buttons were acting flaky so I plugged a USB mouse in.

Only issues are ones I can’t fault Audacity for. Well, I’m here to report it seems to work pretty well.

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