You’ll want to deaden the sound, basically remove any echos. Every room has different acoustics and it’s jarring to the audience to hear changes in the sound. To get a consistent sound, you’ll want to record in the same place. You can usually find a decent one that clips to the microphone or stand for $15-$20 dollars. Without a pop filter, that rush of air will get picked up by the microphone.ĭepending on what comes with the microphone, you may or may not need an external pop filter. Did you feel more air move when you said “P”? That’s because the effort to say “P” is a plosive speech sound.

Put your hand in front of your mouth and then say the letter “L”, followed by the letter “P”.

You’ll probably want to use a pop filter with your microphone. I use its big brother, the RØDE Podcaster. The RØDE NT-USB is another good USB microphone that comes with a stand. That will filter out any sounds that would be transmitted through your desk. It also comes with a built-in shock mount. Designed for gamers, it has configurable pickup patterns, a built-in pop filter, and a stand. The HyperX QuadCast microphone is another good choice. The pickup pattern is important, you just want to pick up your voice and nothing else. It has a stand and you can control the pickup pattern that it uses. The Blue Yeti microphone is a good choice.

You can go crazy and spend a lot of money on microphones and associated gear, but you can get very good results with a decent USB microphone. Much of this will be for the tools that she is using, Microsoft Powerpoint and Techsmith Camtasia, but the general ideas work for most tools. Her lectures will be recorded ahead of time and she asked me for some tips to be more productive.

Quick and cheap audio editing for online coursesĪ family member is a college professor and her courses this fall will be held virtually.

Edit audio in camtasia