I want to podcast a lecture.

Audacity Solutions:

• See the WhatIsAudacity.net podcast tutorial.
• Test your recording setup before recording.
• For a professional lecture recording with some permanency, see this university website.

Non-Audacity solutions:

• Use equipment you can borrow.

Commercial Solutions:

• Choose your microphone carefully, keeping in mind the following principals:
  • A lavalier type of microphone will work well with a recorder or camcorder which contains an audio adjustment, as such a device will normally contain a pre-amplifier to boost sound.
  • The same microphone plugged directly into a computer may have a lapse in volume.
  • Boost volume with:
    • audio settings in your PC’s Control Panel (accessed from the Start menu),
    • a pre-amplifier or audio interface device installed between your microphone and computer, or
    • audio compression and normalization of your recording by an audio editor (Audacity).
• Alternatively, plug your microphone into a recorder or camcorder (such devices contain a preamplifier at the microphone connection); then download the recording to your PC.

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