Hello, A little background. I’m a voice over talent who, up until a few weeks ago I worked exclusively in professional studios and never really even looked at the mics I was speaking into, much less anything else in the studio. There seems to be a lot of VO work now for talent with his/her own studio and so I thought I could just do dry voice recordings –with maybe some simple client supplied music added in, so I purchased Blaze Audio’s suit of recording products (Rip & Burn, Overdub, power record, wavebreaker ) and 2 radio shack microphones; (both dynamic which I now understand was a mistake, one specifically a “computer microphone” ). I plug into the sound slot on my Windows XP desktop computer.
The sound that comes from these recordings is rather crummy with this weird hum in the background that I cannot get rid of. Could the hum be caused by the microphone? A friend suggested I get a large diaphragm condenser mic AT 3035, that it would be the best mic for my voice, without breaking the bank, which I am ready to do. But I’d like some advice first.
I’m not ready to tackle mixing instruments on multiple tracks or anything fancy—I really just want to get the same studio quality dry voice recording that I can send out maybe adding a music track with it if needed.
Besides the mic and its phantom power supply, what else do I need that will allow met to set up a basic voice over studio? (Do I need any other hardware? And is the Blaze Audio software adequate, or should I get something else?) I’d like to keep this under $500, I think, but I need everything to produce a sound that is textured and records the nuances of my voice. (I have been researching myself, but I can’t quite put all these things together.) Any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks, MK