Will this pick up background noise like page turns or people tapping on the table? Sounds silly, but I have a client that needs mics like this.
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Unfortunately, it does pick up everything including tapping and page turning. People need to be sitting near it or it will not pick up their voices. Depending on the size of the table, you may need more than 1. I use 2 at every meeting and they connect together. Last thing, people cannot talk over each other or it will sound jumbled and unclear. Hope that helps! :)
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That would depend on your situation. I would suggest a combination of a lav and a shotgun. If you have both and record to separate channels, you're covered. Sometimes lav mics pick up body noise/shirt rubbing etc...a shotgun mic will get the best results generally... This is a great little machine. Great options and quality for the price-point.
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Does it take other microphones to make the quality of the recording better. If it does, what works?
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If you attach a 2nd mic to filter background noise you will get excellent quality sound. By itself it's pretty good but, it will pick up any background noise so just don't podcast where there is a lot of that.
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I used this set up to record a bunch of spoken word poetry so I would say yes.my understanding is the mic is also designed to work well in environments that are not acoustically sound. So again, you should be good.
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Depends how loud you are talking about, this type of mic has narrow pick up pattern, but if put it too close to the source of noise, it probably will have some minimal effect on it.
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No it humms at times , i upgraded to a xlr mic which is better I suggest that over a USB well not this one, it was good to start off
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The headset does not have noise cancellation so background noises are picked up, but I didn't notice much in the way of the device adding sound or noises to recordings. Please note - I am using teh headset for telephone communication and recording phone messages are not very high fidelity.
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If they are sitting the mic needs to be on low. It is very sensitive to movement in that position. Or they can turn it off and on when they are speaking. I have noticed I acquired lots of feed back and high screeching when I bent over while it was on. I just turned it off. Try it and see if that helps.
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Yes. It is sensitive enoigh to pick up people talking and should work fine. The background noise it reads at is around 35. A classroom that's quiet would be around 45. 75 and they are talking too much.
1970717
The audio is 'ok' at best. If the room is small and there is only one or two people talking it is fine. If you have a larger room or lots of speakers, I would recommend a dedicated mic. We used a Crown PZM-11 mic with excellent results.
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The mic is so sensitive for the sound around. I use it to pick up my saxophone playing but I have some problems for the disturbance between it and monitoring speakers. So I think it may work well to pick up all your sound to place it in the center our your semi-circle.
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It depends on what settings you have set to your computer. I'd definitely recommend headphones or disabling real-time playback of what the mic picks up.
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My understanding of Noise Reduction is for the MIC. It reduces background noise that the Mic picks up.
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If all the people will be on front of the mic, it will work great. This mic records from one direction only, if you'll be interviewing from the back of it, that might be a problem.
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The microphone in this device is very sensitive. In fact it's too sensitive that you hear all background noise very clearly so it's almost impossible to use outside. Inside I still find a slight hiss and still hear background sounds even in the quietest of rooms. So.. For multiple person interviews the best bet is to use multiple lapel pins connected to one of its interface. In a pinch u can try to use it indoors but be prepared to do some cleanup of noise after u record
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This would work really well for that. The only problem I could think you might have. The mic picks up everything so is there is a lot of background noise you will hear it all