[Ty Ford]

OK Aiden,

That’s not a standard request, but start looking for whichever hardware box you want that’ll take a line input and convert it through USB or available firewire.

If mono is all you need, and the 552 has a balanced mono mic level output, get a Centrance Mic Port Pro.

https://www.centrance.com/products/mp/

Do you need two channel mono or stereo

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Thanks,

And all in the comfort of my home. That’s the best part. Any day I don’t have to deal with traffic is a good day.

The Rode Podcaster has an onboard headphone jack so you can plug right in and hear yourself on mic. The AT2020USB does not. That explains part of the price difference.

Neither are world class mics, but both will do the job you want. You still need to deal with room acoustics and noise abatement from outside.

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Hi Jason,

Thanks for the description. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, setting up in front of a window is not a good idea because outside sounds penetrate normal window glass pretty easily. Even if you have super windows, having large hard reflective surfaces (window panes) to bounce your voice back at you is a bad idea.

You need a balance of absorptive and diffusive surfaces to absorb. breakup the soundwaves. Here’s my room. It’s 25 x 35. Notice I have placed foam at some spots along the walls. I have covered some of the ceiling tiles with foam. I have wall to wall plus a carpet and objects like the CD tower across the room are placed to help breakup the bouncing sound. To the left you can see a corner of the entire wall of LPs on shelves. They make a great diffuser that covers the entire end wall. To the right you can see my gray muslin backdrop against which I shoot video. It also damps sound pretty nicely.

UNless you are prepared to do the whole space, get some fabric-covered office cubicle dividers and drop a few panels from the ceiling to stop ceiling bounce.

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Richard,

Just so you know, broadband noise and/or white noise is actually a pretty good target for noise reduction as long as it’s constant in frequency and volume. It’s when things get a bit wiggly that the difficulty occurs.

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Peter,

Big thanks from Cow’s Abraham Chaffin who sent me the recipe.

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Hi Jason,

Please know that in recording studios, voiceovers are typically done on more expensive mics, some costing thousands of dollars. OTOH, the mic of choice for many live venues remains the Shure SM58 which is typically bought at about $100.

I demoed the Podcaster years ago when it came out and found it and the AT2020USB both OK.

A good acoustical environment is as important as the mic itself. A great mic in a bad room probably won’t sound as good as a lesser mic in a better room.

Perhaps you can tell us more about the kind of work you expect to do?

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Richard,

Wow the DSLR has a headphone out jack!
That’s actually sort of impressive.

You might want to check to see if your headphones were passing the noise and you missed it.

I use Sony MDR7506 headphones on shoots because they are very sensitive.

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Richard,

I go back to my original comment. DSLRs and mics are usually a bad combination. I wouldn’t try that again without extensive experimentation. In general, mics and DSLRs don’t work well together.

So that was the short cut to which you were referring?

Re; the training. What were you listening on? monitors, headphones?

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Richard,

Well, venial anyway. 😉

So what did you do differently to get good sound?

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Richard,

Please be advised that DSLR cameras, in general, do not have acceptable audio recording capability.

Were you previously able to record audio without hiss on this camera?

Does this camera allow you to monitor audio in headphones?

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