I'm not a salesman for the mic at all. However, it's currently 33 dollars in the Amazon store. It's a great mic. You can plug it directly in to your laptop's USB port, tell audacity to use as your input sorce & record all the recordings you need to. If you'd like some audio of this mic in action, let me know &, I'll send some along, however, If you listen to Daniels as well as other of those podcaster head types, I'm sure you've already heard said mic in action. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dang Manh Cuong To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 09:07 Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording levels Thanks for answering me. May be I'll by this. I just do tutorial for some people who can't use some software by reading text tutorial, and of cource I just do with my laptop within my lodging house. So I need a dynamic microphone. I appreciate your help Cuong. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Paul To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:48 PM Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording levels Yes, this mic comes with 2 cables. The USB pluggs directly in to the back of the mic, the XLR is also in the box & also pluggs directly in to the back of the mic. Both cables can be plugged in & in use at same time. Also, the mic has a small headphone jack on its backside. There is also a volume control on the rear of this mic as well. The mic comes with a 10 foot XLR cable, this was much to long for my setup, so I purchased a smaller 4 foot cable to run from the mic to my mixer & put the one that came in the box in my wire box for use later on if needed. Tip, when this mic is plugged in to your computer. It is audomaticly used as your sound card. So, JAWS & every other sound will start playing through the headphone jack on the rear, so, You'll need to plug in there & make any changes to make it start running back through your regular sound card. As I'm using an older version of JAWS, this took me some fooling with to get it switch back for JAWS. Any other questions, please ask ----- Original Message ----- From: Dang Manh Cuong To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 07:38 Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording levels Hi Sean Your USB have two cables: USB and xlr. Isn't it? I'm about to buy it because it very cheap, but never heard about xlr cable, so dare not to buy. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Paul To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:32 PM Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording levels Also Ron: Consider your mic when you're setting your audio levels. A Condenser mic, the type found in most computers, USB mics, etc. In my opinion need to have its audio set much louder than a dynamic mic, tipicaly found in studio setups as you're tipically right up in a dynamic mic. Also, condenser mics will much more pic up background, around you noise than a dynamic mic will. So, you need to make sure that a condensers mic audio is set louder to drag your voice out of the around you, background noise. So, being right up in a dynamic mic will keep out background, around you noise. & you can set your audio levels a bit lower so that your voice doesn't overdrive the mic & clip the audio. For voice recording, I currently use an Audio Technica ATR-2100 mic. This mic is both a USB mic & an XLR mic. However, this unlike most tipical USB mics is a Dynamic mic. I like this mic for the fact that I can both use directly in to my computer as well as directly in to my mixer. I also like this mic as I can use using the camera kit directly connected with my iPad. Hope that this helps & wasn't either off topic for this list or over technical for this list. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Paul To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 07:15 Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording levels Ron: As pointed out here. This is a good podcasd, it may be a good idea to try to go back through some of Daniels content here & find some of his eps where he discusses audacity indepth. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dang Manh Cuong To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 06:24 Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording levels Ron Here is a podcast I've ever listened about microphone, and I think it would useful for you http://theaudacitytopodcast.com/tap081-5-tips-to-sound-great-with-any-microphone/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:47 PM Subject: [audacity4blind] Recording levels Hi All. Once I've recorded something I always do a "normalise" to try to make the volume sound as normal as possible. Recently I have recorded something where the volume is over all far too high. Would a normalise actually fix this, or is there a way I can decrease the volume say by 5-10%. 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