simple audio assignment: record two voice messages for phone answering machine (scripts already written)
I love my Behringer C-1. The voice audio files I record with it always sound warm, clear, and open, and it's the cheapest really good microphone you can find. (I may have paid forty-five dollars for mine). I even enjoy the little logo on the mic -- an ear inside a triangle, with "ING" highlighted in the Behringer name underneath.
Unfortunately, the M-Audio firewire solo reCORDing interface that connects it to my mac does not always work, so when I tried to record a corporate voicemail message recently, I had to come up with an alternative method. (And by the way, that's why there's been no audio RSS feed podcast component of devnotes, at least for the time being).
First idea: find another microphone. Result: inferior microphones already discarded. Progress report: all extra ipod cables organized. Belkin labs bluetooth adapter that never worked: discarded.
Second idea: Plantronics bluetooth headset. Result: battery dead forever. Progress report: headset and adapter discarded.
Third idea: make audio files with Olympus DM-10 voice recorder, industry standard note taker for all print journalists. Result: replace batteries in DM-10, read manual to learn how to use, record corporate voice message. Progress report: two triple-aaa batteries discarded, Olympus DM10 with USB docking cradle fully functional
Fourth idea: improve sound of recorded WMA files, and put them into MP3 format. Result: import WMA files into open source application audacity, sample 3-second portion as example of quote "noise", choose "Noise Removal" from the effects menu, choose "Export..." from the file menu, and select MP3. Mail mp3 files to corporate client. Progress report: Fait accompli.
Colophon: Olympus DM-10 voice recorder with extra triple-a batteries stored in plastic bag with all wires and manuals; Audacity 1.3.3-beta(unicode); Mail 3.5 email client; Broadcast Voice Handbook, Fourth Edition by Ann Utterback
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