{"id":382,"date":"2016-03-24T23:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=382"},"modified":"2016-03-26T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:52:55","slug":"my-new-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"My new mic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pretty little one-eyed monster, ain’t it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, I finally went off and did it. I finally went and really got a real microphone. That little pretty one eyed monster up there, is a MXL USB.009<\/a> microphone.<\/p>\n

Of course, I had to get a shock mount and a stand for it. And I will tell you this, you really have to be really careful<\/em> about putting them stands together. Because if you don’t, you can be in a world of hurt.<\/p>\n

Let’s just say that, I found out the hard way; as to what happens when you try to mount one of these things using the clamp Mount and you don’t have it on a perfectly level surface. It was not pretty and I almost dropped a really nice microphone in the floor, good thing I can catch!<\/p>\n

Well, needless to say; a few drops of sweat, a few swear words and a couple puffs off of my vaporizer later and I had it all set up.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know it leans just a little bit. There ain’t much I can do about that. It’s the way that it is mounted. it is as solid as a rock and that clamp is not going to move. The whole desk will fall apart, before that clamp will move. I got it on there good and tight. But, because of where it’s mounted it leans a little bit. But, I now have the blue-eyed leaning tower of microphone….<\/p>\n

lovely. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n

Needless to say; it sounds very good,<\/em> it’s\u00a0 the best I’ve ever sounded on this Kenwood 950SDX. For the record, it’s a USB microphone; that’s primarily designed for podcasting or vidcasting. But, doing a little trick by sending the audio from the sound card speaker output to the input of the radio via a Heil sound adapter for a Heik pro-set Plus, I can send audio to the radio and it works rather well.<\/p>\n

I just got to remember to keep the levels down, so I don’t overdrive the radio. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

Heck, I was even goofing around with a program called audacity and listening to my voice through this microphone, after I added some of the processing; I think I may have the makings here of a new career as a voice-over artist. I’m definitely going to check it out maybe shopping around some demos. You never can tell, you may hear me on a commercial sometime or another. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So, that’s what’s new here at amateur radio station K8CPA I got a new microphone and I’m loving every bit of it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

73 for now…<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong><\/u>:<\/p>\n

I changed things up a bit:<\/p>\n

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I changed it a little<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was doing some tinkering around with this microphone and audio comparisons and I have found that it sounds better, when this microphone is mounted like this; instead of the way I had it, as pictured above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I finally went off and did it. I finally went and really got a real microphone. That little pretty one eyed monster up there, is a MXL USB.009 microphone. Of course, I had to get a shock mount and a stand for it. And I will tell you this, you really have to be<\/p>\n

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