Which microphone do I use to do my live streaming and produce videos from my home office with professional quality output without applying any after effects? What does my entire audio setup look like? Will you take a look at this because you might be able to save a lot of time, energy and money compared to how I did it?
Best Microphone Studio Setup to Record Vocals without Applying Audio Effects? Thank you to my friend Tomas George for helping me set this up.
If you'd like to see where all these links are, will you please go to
https://jerrybanfield.com/resources because everything I use is listed on that page?
I asked Tomas as a music production engineer, I said, "Tomas, what is the very best microphone I can get? What will record my voice the absolute best?" and this is what he pointed me to. I then don't have to worry about my audio being dramatically different from one video to another. If one day I'm in a nice peaceful relaxed meditative mood, then the volume for that's good, and if I scream and shout, and let it all out, it fixes that.
Now, everything's got its ups and downs, and one problem with this "Electro Voice RE20 Cardioid Microphone" is that it's $449.
The other big problem with it is you really need a "Preamp Processor" because this microphone is so sensitive. It records the volume really low when it comes in, which allows it to have a nice dynamic range. The problem is this signal needs to be boosted in order to be loud enough.
Tomas tried to plug this in into the audio interface, and he said that you could hardly hear the mic arrays, the volume is not up loud enough. Also, if you want the professional audio effects I've been going on about how great they are, this is what you need right here. You need some kind of "preamp processor" that has all of the audio controls on it.
Therefore, you take this microphone, you plug it into this preamp processor, and then you get all of these settings applied before the audio goes into the computer. That's what's amazing about this. It's the ability to apply all these effects on it before you even put the audio in.
You have got an "input gain" and an "output gain," and then you have got all these different effects you can put on that allow you to compress the audio before it even goes into the computer.
You can de-Ess it, so that the S’s don't come across so strong, you can enhance, you can put the low frequency or the high frequency up or down.
What you need then with this preamp is the "Audio Interface." This audio quality is fantastically better than just using a Blue Yeti microphone or even that iRig HD. In my opinion, having used both of them, having listened to the difference, this sounds professional. This has all that dynamic adjustment. This setup I've got now is amazing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta6Ez5u2yAk