thanks for swinging by and posting a comment…

If you have a PC at home, this can be your digital recorder, you just need a program to use in recording your voice… to be honest I am partial to a program called Adobe Audition (formerly known as Cool Edit Pro) because this is what I have been using since 1997 or 1998 when I first started recording on digital format.. prior to that I was recording on 2 track and 8 track open reels. You can also do digital editing on this software.

A PC would be ideal too if you want to create CDs and mp3s. Most PCs today come with really good cd burners… I recall several years ago, they were not usually a standard add on and I bought my first CD writer in Hong Kong and then installed it on my computer.

Ideal specs for your PC? Most PCs today are quite powerful, but if you have to ask, a Pentium 4 would be ideal.

As for the microphone, well, I would have to ask how serious you really are in this, because if you are dead serious about this and quality is important to you then I can recommend a simply set up like this.

1. Buy a small mixer.. so you can record different microphones or sound sources together. But even if you are going to record one voice at a time, still use a mixer. Here is a cheap one I recommend which I used in the past and served well.

A Behringer 1002, you can get a picture of it here http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w7U%2BMh8fL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

As for a microphone, I unfortunately am partial to Electro Voice microphones, these are mics that are well known in the broadcast industry.

They have a wide array of mics for broadcast purposes, studio mics, field and news gather mics. The on-air radio standard is the RE 20 or RE27 but these things are quite expensive, amounting to about $500 I think, I have not checked in a long time.

But you can make do with the cheaper 635 series mics, I used to have a 635N and it worked really great in outdoor situations.

If it works great outdoors, it usually does well to indoor or in controlled environments.

Here is the website for those types of mics, http://www.electrovoice.com.

It is hard to find these mics in the Philippines and the best way to get them is to find them online where you can find big discounts, which you hardly find in the Philippines.

The most common mics you find there are SONY and a lot of karaoke mics, don’t bother with them. OR, Shure, which is a good brand as well, but it is more of a live performance mic and the response/quality you get is not ideal for your purposes.

There are a lot of good brands but if I were to rank them they would be in this order…

a. electro voice
b. akg
c. rode
d. m-audio

Just do some research online, check this link so you know what may be good for you, http://www.sweetwater.com/shop/studio/studio-microphones/buying-guide.php

Also, if you have the money for it, buy a condenser mic, to go with your small mixer that is already equipped with phantom power.

Could you please help me?
Thank you very much
Carmelo Mangano

I was tempted to put up the Junrex commercials “babes series” hehehe… tempted but didn’t do so….

I bet people are still wondering who that “babes” voice is… hehehehe