029 - XLR Mics Versus USB Mics
Jey's Podcasting Journal
English - February 01, 2021 23:33 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
USB mics and XLR mics have strengths and weaknesses. So which one should you choose. Guess, what? You can have both!
PRODUCTION NOTES
Mic: Samson Q2U
Mic position: Mounted on the Samson supplied small desk stand (you can hear the noise of me leaning on the table, a couple of times)
Recording Device: Zoom H6 Digital Recorder connected via XLR cable to the mic.
Recording Software: Audacity
Recording location: Dining table (pillow-fort surrounding the mic)
Recording format: 24 bit WAV file
Sample rate: 44100Hz
Editing app: Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file
Episode art created in Canva