If I wanted to create a home studio to do audio book narrations...is this a good option? Or is this more geared to creating music?
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I personally like it.. if you're a beginner is great but upgrade in the future
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Absolutely, this is a great microphone set for book narrations. I use this myself for narrations and music creations. Enjoy and have fun!
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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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the only slight concern would be that the microphone is a condenser microphone and therefore is slightly more sensitive and may pick up some background noise.
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Sounds like your new to the world of DAW...Digital Audio Workstation...This 1 is pretty good for the price, and Sony gives you a choice between some nice sounds in different musical genres for free downloading. But then you can buy them from Sony too. Remember that its meant for a musician in mind. You just don't hit a couple of buttons and out pops a song.... Good luck and I hope I got your question answered.
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I believe it will work good for podcasting unless you want professional vocal and musical recording.
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Truth is, I don't know. I never tried doing this but it is an intriguing idea. If you go to Sibelius First, you can download a demo for 30 days (I think). It might be worth it to do that and give your idea a try. Good luck!
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It really depends on a few things. A. What kind of quality do you want or need?B. What type of dialog? Ex: Audio book, film, vocal, podcast.If its just for verbal notes lecture recordings, there are cheaper priced recordings. Overall, I'm an independent film maker so I use it for field audio and also voice overs. Hope this helped.
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All I can speak to is this model which I am extremely happy with and have never equated the NEWEST to necessarily mean the best. Good luck researching and setting up your home studio project.
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Unless you're going to be using the audio in a broadcast or film or something, I think this is overkill. Also, what Alan Ganger said, but even so -- there's no equipment so amazing that you don't need some kind of mic or amp or something if you're far from the speaker. The bottom line is that if you're recording only for your own uses (like, to record lectures or conversations for your own review later), you can get the same functionality (but at a bit lower sound quality) for less money.
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I would get the highest quality you can afford. This is fine for hobbyist quality but if you want professional type recording I would think you need something better
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All this is very true. I solved the problem by going to a Cannon. I don't always have the ability to record an seperate audio track. In studio I can. I use Pinnacle 18 as my editing tool so a seperate channel is no problem! I wish you luck. I will stick to Cannon!
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You didn't mention if you're going to simply be listening or doing recording/editing, so I'll give you a general answer. The built-in speakers aren't great, but you if you're doing something like editing tracks, you should be using monitors or a headset anyway. I've used both a bluetooth headset and a gaming headset with USB connector and have noticed a couple of things. The Bluetooth sounds spectacular. The USB has a faint hiss as soon as you plug it in, though not as noticeable in the USB 3, and definitely better than the on-board speakers. I think the hiss is just general noise from the electrical-from not having perfect shielding on the internal wires-but that's a bit much to ask for any laptop. I was a music major and studied audio engineering in college, so I get where you're coming from. I wasn't that impressed with this thing at first, but it's shown me what it can do and now I'm impressed and honestly really fond of it. You won't want to master anything on this, but it's going to be insanely portable and can handle a lot, considering the price point.
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Also, if what you want to do is hook up a studio-quality microphone to your computer (rather than mix several audio inputs in realtime) you're better off with a dedicated mike preamp like the Art Tube Studio and a USB sound card (cheap ones are fine).
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Good day Ed.. Songwriter is fun and productive to use if you need to print out quality sheet music, use MIDI device and saveaudio files for the money $$ it's really hard to beat. If you need to compare Finale $$$ go to Finale's websiteand look at product compare information. Also, use your manual and online instructions for the best results.Enjoy, Joseph
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it has lots of effects and all work just as listed, I am using it for live vocals and recording mixed output. I have not yet used that software yet. I may need to experiment with the software before answering your questions further. You should check behringer website for more options, behringer has vast collection of mixers for all kind of mixing. I will try to answer your questions soon.
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i use mine as a home recording studio, so you should be able to play this no problem. (SYSTEM REQUIREMENTSMINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTSMinimum CPU Type: 486DXMinimum CPU Speed: 33 MHzMinimum RAM Required: 8 MBMinimum Hard Disk Space: 6 MBMinimum OS Version: 5.0Graphics Type: SVGAColor Depth: 256 ColorsFree Conventional Required: 470 KB) heres the specs if you need them, hope this helps.
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We've been using "MAGIX Music Maker 2013". We got it cheap and it's works pretty well. Very easy software to learn. Depending on what you are doing with it though, it can get kind of glitchy to work with. We record several tracks together on a compilation, and we've been running into lag issues with it. As long as you can work around it, you should be fine. Just be aware that it IS a pretty big problem with this particular software. But you can't beat the price!
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I am not sure how well it would turn out. The sound would probably be a bit tinny. When I consider the price, the sound is great. But we only use it to make our school book drop a cool experience :) I have a voice recorded that sounds real enough...................
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Will it be audible (assuming every instrument has a source of amplification)? Yes. Will it sound good and satisfy you? Probably not. In a band situation such as this, I do not recommend this product. You will probably want separate channels for each instrument and a few for the drums alone so that you can mix in a balanced manner. As this only has one input, you would need a microphone that could hear everything in a detailed and balanced way. Good luck finding a single mic that can do that. There are many better options than this for a band application. One that pops to mind (not the only option) is a live sound mixer with outputs to a CD recorder or something of the like. Will it be audible (assuming every instrument has a source of amplification)? Yes. Will it sound good and satisfy you? Probably not. In a band situation such as this, I do not recommend this product. You will probably want separate channels for each instrument and a few for the drums alone so that you can mix in a balanced manner. As this only has one input, you would need a microphone that could hear everything in a detailed and balanced way. Good luck finding a single mic that can do that. There are many better options than this for a band application. One that pops to mind (not the only... » Read More Will it be audible (assuming every instrument has a source of amplification)? Yes. Will it sound good and satisfy you? Probably not. In a band situation such as this, I do not recommend this product. You will probably want separate channels for each instrument and a few for the drums alone so that you can mix in a balanced manner. As this only has one input, you would need a microphone that could hear everything in a detailed and balanced way. Good luck finding a single mic that can do that. There are many better options than this for a band application. One that pops to mind (not the only option) is a live sound mixer with outputs to a CD recorder or something of the like. « Show Less