On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:35:52 EDT
P9Bow@... wrote:
> Thanks Dave - I don't have the kind of mic with the rings that you refer to
> - i have a Samson mic - but since your last e-mail I found that I can
> go into EFFECT on Audacity and choose to normalize or amplify - that gives
> me the sound I want. I think i just need to get a sound card that will
> work. My recording equipment is not great - it's just something in my
> living room to enable me to record into my computer. Yes, the mic
> control in Audacity is turned up.
> The sound situation is somehwhat better now. I still have to hold the mic close
> but not as close as before. I went into something called SPEECH
> RECOGNITION on the controls of my computer and did something there and
> that seem to make things better.
You'll get a lot of noise in that recording if you have to amplify it to
make it audible. Did you find the "ten times" kind of control Dave
mentioned (may be called "boost" or "AGC")?
Right-click over the speaker icon in the System Tray and hit "Recording
Devices". That should bring you here:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/images/thumb/c/c8/Vistarec.png/440px-Vistarec.png
Right-click over the Samson mic and hit Properties. Try the Custom tab:
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/15/0,1425,sz=1&i=156808,00.gif"Speech Recognition" may have done something similar because it may
have walked you through some microphone setup steps. Try finding a boost
control if you have one as that may be more likely to solve it. Speech
Recognition lets you control programs and Vista itself by issuing voice
commands. You don't want to be actually running that service unless you
want it, as it will use up resources and might even have unwanted results
when you are recording.
Gale
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