USB mics and XLR mics have strengths and weaknesses. So which one should you choose. Guess, what? You can have both!
PRODUCTION NOTES
Mic: Samson Q2U
Mic position: Mounted on the Samson supplied small desk stand (you can hear the noise of me leaning on the table, a couple of times)
Recording Device: Zoom H6 Digital Recorder connected via XLR cable to the mic.
Recording Software: Audacity
Recording location: Dining table (pillow-fort surrounding the mic)
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
