COMPLETE [Group] Microphone Showdown 3 - RuthieG

Kristingj · Post by **Kristingj** » January 7th, 2016, 7:56 am

Algy Pug wrote:Thanks Kristin

I have always been a fan of the Perception 120 USB, and it suits your voice beautifully.

There is a slight stumble at the start of the recording that you might like to remove. Otherwise good.

Cheers

Obs, forgot that, uploaded again:)

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 7th, 2016, 8:27 am

Thanks Kristin

All good. PL OK.

Cheers

JenniferFour · Post by **JenniferFour** » January 10th, 2016, 1:12 pm

Thought I'd try this on my iPad, sitting my living room, patting my dog. I did have to run it through Audacity/Replay Gain b/c the volume was in the 70s but other than that it is unaltered.

Title: Minute Mysteries No. 28, Accidental Death
Author: Harold Austin Ripley, born - Jul. 25, 1896 , died Apr. 11, 1974
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50603
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_26_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:23

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 10th, 2016, 5:46 pm

JenniferFour wrote:Thought I'd try this on my iPad, sitting my living room, patting my dog. I did have to run it through Audacity/Replay Gain b/c the volume was in the 70s but other than that it is unaltered.

Thanks Jennifre

Excellent reading. PL OK.

Sound quality is very good, especially considering that you are using an internal microphone in a portable device. It is amazing how quickly technology improves.

Cheers

JenniferFour · Post by **JenniferFour** » January 18th, 2016, 3:07 pm

I got a new mic today and couldn't wait to post on this thread. It's really different than my other one - I had to turn the input volume way down (from 85 to 50 or so) and it is still a little loud. I am sure I'll figure it out

Title: Enquire Within Upon Everything number 2175
Author: (including dates of birth and death) Robert Kemp Philp 1819-1882
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10766
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_27_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:08

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 18th, 2016, 4:27 pm

JenniferFour wrote:I got a new mic today and couldn't wait to post on this thread. It's really different than my other one - I had to turn the input volume way down (from 85 to 50 or so) and it is still a little loud. I am sure I'll figure it out

Title: Enquire Within Upon Everything number 2175
Author: (including dates of birth and death) Robert Kemp Philp 1819-1882
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10766
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_27_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:08

Thanks Jennifer

The Rode NT-USB certainly justifies its reputation as one of the best USB microphones around.

Excellent recording - PL OK.

Cheers

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » January 18th, 2016, 9:48 pm

Sorry, I think I was supposed to claim first? Anyway, here is Section 28, with the following details:

Title: Psalm 23
Author: Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13166
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_28_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:56

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 18th, 2016, 9:57 pm

Elizabby wrote:Sorry, I think I was supposed to claim first? Anyway, here is Section 28, with the following details:

Thanks Beth

Reading is PL OK.

The Rode Podcaster has served you well.

Cheers

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » January 22nd, 2016, 2:47 pm

Title: Extract from: “Years After The War In Australia”
Author: Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
Text URL: http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lawson-henry/years-after-the-war-in-australia-0022017
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_29_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:08

The amount of "fixing-up" these raw recordings require remind me of my first car. I was always confident that I could keep it running, just so long as I didn't ever run out of piano wire. "Piano wire?", I hear you ask. Yes, piano wire. Kept the doors from falling off.

Cheers,
Son of the Exiles

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 22nd, 2016, 4:39 pm

SonOfTheExiles wrote:Title: Extract from: “Years After The War In Australia”
Author: Henry Lawson (1867-1922)

Thanks SOTE

Reading is PL OK. I enjoyed the contribution from the local wildlife at the end.

Cheers

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » January 23rd, 2016, 12:37 am

Algy, the bell-birds are very supportive and encouraging, but the whipbird is such a taskmaster!

SOTE

bsdarby · Post by **bsdarby** » January 31st, 2016, 12:11 am

Can I claim four spots?

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 31st, 2016, 12:19 am

bsdarby wrote:Can I claim four spots?

Thanks Brian

Sections 30 through 33 are yours. Enjoy!

Cheers

bsdarby · Post by **bsdarby** » January 31st, 2016, 5:40 pm

Title: Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)
Text URL: http://www.bartleby.com/42/693.html
MP3 URL: http://uploads.librivox.org/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_30_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:19
Recorded using a Blue, Encore 200, powered dynamic microphone, TASCAM US-2x2 interface, Microwave Audio Editor, 2011 MacBook Pro.

Title: Lights
Author: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/442
MP3 URL: http://uploads.librivox.org/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_31_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:14
Recorded using a Blue, Encore 300, condenser microphone, TASCAM US-2x2 interface, Microwave Audio Editor, 2011 MacBook Pro.

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 31st, 2016, 6:50 pm

Thanks Brian

Both readings are PL OK.

This actually Microphone Showdown number 3 - I have corrected the file names.

I noticed a slight background hum in the recording of the Clough poem. I don't know whether it came from the interface or the microphone.

Cheers