VIDEO TUTORIAL: How to make HQ videos for YouTube for FREE.
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Chadfish
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Looks pretty cool. I would suggest you work on your audio. Audio is almost more important than video. People will forgive cruddy video if the audio is stellar.
Now, you may not have money for a better mic, which I do suggest. A large diaphragm condenser is vest for voice. If you have no audio interface, then check out USB podcast mics (also large diaphragm condenser).
No money? OK. This next thing you should do with any mic you use. I hear your voice reflecting off the walls. That screams "amateur". I suggest you do what you can to deaden your room. Put something on the walls to stop reflection. Egg crate foam is great, and can be found for cheap. Or even a moving blanket like you get with a youhaul. You are probably sitting at your dest, so you can see the monitor as you work, so I suggest you deaden the area behind your monitor. Put a rug on the floor too. Also put something on the areas around your tower. That will absorb some of the fan noise. All these things will add up to make your sound less distracting.
One last thing is mic placement. If you can have the mic close to your mouth you get a better signal to noise ratio. But you also need to listen for "plosives" which are the sound of "p" or "b" words blowing air on your mic, and making a rumbling sound that's not good. If you angle your mouth at about 45 degrees off axis to the mic your air will miss the mic, but the sound will still be picked up. If you have a headset, try to put the mic a little above your mouth, below your nose to achieve the same thing. If you do get a nice mic, maybe get a "pop filter" to fight the plosives, and allow you to get very close to the mic - which is part of that nice announcer sound. The closer you are to the mic, the more bass your voice has.
Good luck!
Chadfish
Now, you may not have money for a better mic, which I do suggest. A large diaphragm condenser is vest for voice. If you have no audio interface, then check out USB podcast mics (also large diaphragm condenser).
No money? OK. This next thing you should do with any mic you use. I hear your voice reflecting off the walls. That screams "amateur". I suggest you do what you can to deaden your room. Put something on the walls to stop reflection. Egg crate foam is great, and can be found for cheap. Or even a moving blanket like you get with a youhaul. You are probably sitting at your dest, so you can see the monitor as you work, so I suggest you deaden the area behind your monitor. Put a rug on the floor too. Also put something on the areas around your tower. That will absorb some of the fan noise. All these things will add up to make your sound less distracting.
One last thing is mic placement. If you can have the mic close to your mouth you get a better signal to noise ratio. But you also need to listen for "plosives" which are the sound of "p" or "b" words blowing air on your mic, and making a rumbling sound that's not good. If you angle your mouth at about 45 degrees off axis to the mic your air will miss the mic, but the sound will still be picked up. If you have a headset, try to put the mic a little above your mouth, below your nose to achieve the same thing. If you do get a nice mic, maybe get a "pop filter" to fight the plosives, and allow you to get very close to the mic - which is part of that nice announcer sound. The closer you are to the mic, the more bass your voice has.
Good luck!
Chadfish