A poor workman proceeds to blame her tools

[teenybuffalo]

So I have an excellent-quality microphone now, I'm using Audacity, and I've made myself a pop filter out of the ass of a pair of tights stretched over a bent coathanger

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[ladymondegreen]

What sort of microphone? Is it plugged in directly, or through an adapter?

[negothick]

If it helps with the "feeling ashamed at not mastering this recording business. . ." Sean McMullen, who had worked as a sound engineer, who has a master's in engineering, and worked for years as a computer engineer--HE thought it would be simple to read his stories aloud. It wasn't. I listened to his complaints for over a year before he achieved a sound quality he thought acceptable. Many of his problems came from the inability to create a sound-proof space--the source of many of the unwanted sounds, sounds he had never noticed before till they appeared on his recordings.

[teenybuffalo]

Well, I do feel a bit more encouraged hearing that. Not that I'd wish failure at anything on Sean, but it's nice to know it's not just me struggling with this.

I have a feeling my big clothes rack may be useful in creating a nice fuzzy-sided space to sit in while I record.

[teenybuffalo]

It's a Yeti mic, as per my conversation with weirdquark the other day, and it's plugged in directly to a laptop (Acer) using Audacity. What should I look for/tweak?