Looking for second opinions on a microphone purchase [Answered]
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:06 am
Here's the situation:
1) My microphone isn't picking up the sound very well, even with my face right up to the microphone it still requires me to amplify the recording to reach a decent volume (often by somewhere around 16 decibels)
2) When I amplify like that even a recording of a silent room ends up with this "hissing" sound, I've tried shutting doors and windows and all sorts of things to make the room quiet but I think it's coming from the microphone itself somehow
3) There's a bit of background noise around where I live, cars going by, birds, crickets & cicadas, geckos, neighbors dogs, and occasionally the neighbors themselves. From inside the house sometimes another family member might have a TV or radio on and sometimes I can hear running water when someone uses a sink even from the room I record in. I've found the best room in the house to record but even then I still have to contend with these things a bit
4) I have a sort of deep voice and I get the feeling that something of value in my voice just isn't being picked up by the microphone
I've been getting by so far with lengthy audio editing to try and get the noise out but I feel like I'm not getting the best results I could right now and so I've been looking into buying a good microphone, I have previously been recording off my phone and this cheap microphone I got for $30 (which I bought primarily for the stand and pop filter that came with it)
I'm mostly looking to record voiceover/voice-acting/narration with this setup and would like to produce better recordings so after doing a bit of research I've been giving some thought to buying an "Audio-Technica AT2050 Multi-Pattern Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone". It's a little bit costly for me so I want to be sure that it would yield a noticeable improvement in my recording quality and solve the problems I've been facing.
Can anyone advise me on whether this is a good microphone for this purpose, offer better suggestions, or advise other solutions that might work to fix this problem?
1) My microphone isn't picking up the sound very well, even with my face right up to the microphone it still requires me to amplify the recording to reach a decent volume (often by somewhere around 16 decibels)
2) When I amplify like that even a recording of a silent room ends up with this "hissing" sound, I've tried shutting doors and windows and all sorts of things to make the room quiet but I think it's coming from the microphone itself somehow
3) There's a bit of background noise around where I live, cars going by, birds, crickets & cicadas, geckos, neighbors dogs, and occasionally the neighbors themselves. From inside the house sometimes another family member might have a TV or radio on and sometimes I can hear running water when someone uses a sink even from the room I record in. I've found the best room in the house to record but even then I still have to contend with these things a bit
4) I have a sort of deep voice and I get the feeling that something of value in my voice just isn't being picked up by the microphone
I've been getting by so far with lengthy audio editing to try and get the noise out but I feel like I'm not getting the best results I could right now and so I've been looking into buying a good microphone, I have previously been recording off my phone and this cheap microphone I got for $30 (which I bought primarily for the stand and pop filter that came with it)
I'm mostly looking to record voiceover/voice-acting/narration with this setup and would like to produce better recordings so after doing a bit of research I've been giving some thought to buying an "Audio-Technica AT2050 Multi-Pattern Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone". It's a little bit costly for me so I want to be sure that it would yield a noticeable improvement in my recording quality and solve the problems I've been facing.
Can anyone advise me on whether this is a good microphone for this purpose, offer better suggestions, or advise other solutions that might work to fix this problem?