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[niko]

Snagged from vr2lbast ...

Sorry, I got a bit rambly, but it seemed silly to get into editing, noise reduction, etc. for a silly little meme. :)

Voice Meme

Comments

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

That was fun! Your pppopppp filter seemed to work fine :) How exciting to have a new mic ... *wants*

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

Yes! I'm pretty happy with how the sound came out. :) I did some other trials with and without the pop filter, and it's pretty amazing how much difference it makes...

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! It really was fun listening to you. The sound was crystal clear, and now I'm interested in what kind of mic did you get, and what filter you used - is it for Audacity or some other program?

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

:) Yeah, I like this. It was fun to talk without spending umpteen years editing the way I do for text posts. :)

The mic I bought is this guy (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Snowball-Microphone-White/dp/B000EOPQ7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1266846274&sr=8-1). I had an Amazon gift-card from Christmas that made the cost fairly reasonable, so I decided to splurge a little. :) The pop filter (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=pop+filter) is just a little screen that goes in front of the mic to disperse the air so you don't get blow-out noise. :)

(For completeness, I should mention that I also used a box like described in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV5Rl-IK-eo). I bought some audio foam, but am just using a cardboard box I had handy for the outside of it.)

[vr2lbast.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Great sound! And the newscaster comment must be what one guy meant when he spoke to me over the telephone and said I had a "T.V." voice (at least on the telephone). It didn't sound like you had an accent to me either, or at least in comparison to what I hear every day.

These things really are fun! I'm glad you played along :)

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is fun. :) I really like the more personal feel of voice versus text. I also just realized that one of the reasons why I have so much trouble with using too many ellipses and going off on parenthetical tangents when I type posts is because that's the way I *talk*, too. *grin*

It'd be fun to have a comm or actual social networking service where the posts and replies were primarily done with voice. I wonder how interactions would change.