Condenser mics are awesome but you need the right recording space, free of noise, to exploit the benefits.
I don't recommend them for home podcasters starting out. But I'd love a shotgun condenser mic.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Mic: Samson Q2U
Mic position: Mounted on the Samson supplied small desk stand
Recording Device: Dell G7 Laptop
Recording Software: Audacity
Recording location: Dining table (no pillowfort)
Recording format: 24 bit WAV file
Sample rate: 44100Hz
Editing app: Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file
Episode art created in Canva
