I'm finally trying to push through getting this project and tutorial video done, so I need to get this out of the way -- I know I sound effeminate and neurodivergent, it's just easier to get all the insults out of the way so I can stop being self-conscious about my voice on this.
I already recorded the whole thing, then deleted it because I was talking all slowly and stilted like a nervous kid giving a speech in front of the classroom. This time I tried talking faster and more conversationally, but may have gone overboard and made it impossible to understand.
So what am I doing wrong, how do I improve? It's a shitty microphone, I know.
Also either rdrama hates m4a files or hates files from my phone, so you get an extra layer of mp3 compression added to this.
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ooh what mic did you get? sounds a lot better than the headset one
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It's some random chinese rebrand. Calls itself the NLL NC-011 but it's the same garbage under a dozen names for $50 on Amazon. Found it on Marketplace, new, for $30. Figured it was worth a shot.
I was actually getting super frustrated with that. I didn't know if I'm supposed to talk into the end or the side, so I figured I'd check out YouTube for advice.
EVERY SINGLE "cheap microphone setup" video is about $150+ models with all kinds of features and whatnot. How is nobody making articles about these $30-$50 models that the average person just getting into livestreaming are probably going to buy?
It has a whine at 1KHz, easy enough to filter that out. Biggest hurdle is literally just my inability to read and speak at the same time.
I also want to add a subtle background track so it's not just me talking over silence. I noticed dankpods does similar and it makes a difference. But what genre do you do for something like this, you know? Smooth jazz?
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Looks almost exactly like the one I'm using lmao. Jazz seems like it'd fit, and you can always browse the youtube music library and sort of just throw songs at it until you find something that works if not
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