I use a combination headset microphone and the quality is very good. There are plusses and minus with using these. One, they don't pick up as much room noise in that you are close enough to the microphone that the signal is often much higher than either the microphone pre-amplifier noise or the background noise. Two, they pick up a lot more breathing and a lot of mouth sounds especially if they are a good microphone. Curtis is right about their quality. They are not as good as microphones people use in studios, but there are also microphones that are similar but a step up from the norm. There are microphones like this that on stage performers use that fit over their ears. Likely, it will just be a microphone and not a headphone. Some of these are specifically designed for vocal microphones and they are very good. I haven't done a lot of research on brand names of these so I can't be very helpful. My unit is an Altech Lansing 302I. The only problem, and the reason I haven't brought it up until now is that it is no longer made. But, if you have a good sound card, a quiet computer, etc., perhaps looking into something like this might be less expensive by far than acoustically treating your room, and purchasing microphones, mixers, etc. This is the way studio people go, and it may have to be the way you eventually go to get what you want to get. Neal _____ From: studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Curtis Delzer Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:18 PM To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: Radio Advertising Quality recording. Usually those communications head-microphones aren't much to speak of, because they limit the frequency response to suit communications over telephone or skype lines to frequencies in the voice range gradually tapering off the high and low end. I have a small set of earphones / microphone which are the exception as far as a microphone, but most of the time that is what is happening. If you are in a very quiet room you might normalize the file at minus 10DB with 20Ms so it gives you a punchy quality, and try again,. Curtis Delzer. HS. on Thursday 5/6/2010 10:59 AM, Livio Novi Rodriguez said: Hello everyone: I tried to record a demo for a business that does advertising for radio stations. My friend who is giving me this job tells me that the sound quality is not very good, because there is some background noice in my recording. He told me that he has an employe who records from his computer at home. My friend even sent me a demo recorded by this employee, and yes, the quality is a lot better than mine. Is there a way to do radio Quality recordings with our wonderfull studio recorder? Do I need a certain type of microphone? I tell you that I use Studio Recorder Version 3.7.2.0, with Windows 7 and JAWS 10. The type of microphone I am using is a headset together with a Microphone (those usually used for skyping or generally voice chatting. Please reply the sooner you can to the Studio Record Users List e-mail. Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you very soon. Best Regards, Livio Novi. -- Currently in Fessenden, North Dakota Overcast, 39°F Wind:ENE-060° at 12mph You've heard about the computer programmer that died while washing his hair in the shower. The instructions said, 'Lather, rinse, repeat.' Curtis Delzer W B 6 H E F