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Great Recording Directly into CE on My Computer Now That I Have The Right Kind of Mike
By Reid Wilson
First appeared: Language Learning for Language Learners #32
For the longest time I've been very disappointed with the quality of recording I've gotten by plugging a microphone into my computer's sound card and then recording directly into Cool Edit 2000 ( http://www.syntrillium.com/
). Similarly, programs
like Net-2-Phone and dialpad.com gave us disappointing results
as well.
My computer manufacturer didn't have much help on their
website other than suggesting that I try to see if installing
a new driver would help. It didn't. Someone else said that the
sound card in my brand of laptop computer wasn't very good, so
I just figured I'd have to live with the problem and get a
better sound card next time I get a computer.
My frustration grew the other day when I was showing someone
how to use CE and we got very good recordings directly onto
his computer using an inexpensive headset-type mike he uses
for Net-2-Phone.
And then a dear person said, "I bet it's your microphone."
Ends up that there are microphones designed for tape recorders
and minidisc recorders and there are DIFFERENT microphones
designed for computer sound cards--the impedance is really
different. I went out and got a good computer microphone (a
Labtec AM-252 NCAT), and now I am happy, happy, happy!
The recordings I get plugging this mike directly into the
computer are just as good (and actually less noisy) than I get
recording on a minidisc and then transferring to Cool Edit!
(And not only that, but we used dialpad.com and had the person
on the other end ask us to turn the volume down! In the past
they could hardly hear us.)
So, whenever I can get someone in my house and in front of my
computer I'll just record directly into Cool Edit, and then
I'll use my minidisc recorder for the many times I record
outside of my home and away from my computer.
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