It probably helps that this particular professor also does classes in rhetoric, speech, and public speaking, so by default he tends to speak clearly and with good diction and enunciation, but even the students that didn't speak as clearly are easily distinguished in the recording. It did not pick up any of the whirring noise from the projector, or my habitual foot-tapping, or any of the mild echo in the room. It picked up every voice in the room, with the exception of the two girls on the far side who both speak far too softly (I have a hard time hearing them myself sometimes). I had previously set my audio recording default to the following in the OneNote options dialogue: "Windows Media Audio Voice 9" at 20kbps, 22.05khz, mono. The room is a typical classroom for a building that was probably built in the 60's: concrete walls, some sort of hard tile floors, acoustic tiles for the ceiling. It was facing forward (the Samson logo facing front), and little to the right.
I didn't mess with the little switch on the side that alters the recording pattern. I didn't futz around with recording levels. I placed the mic on the desk and ~2 ft to my right, hit the record button in OneNote, and let it sit there. I was ~10 ft from the front of the room, and off to the far left (facing the front).
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Windows XP Tablet PC Edition recognized it immediately and installed a generic driver on its own. When I got to class, I just fired up the tablet and plugged everything in. I'll probably just start winding the cable around the case to keep them together. The only complaint I have about the device from a physical perspective is that the case doesn't have room to put the USB cable inside. Sure, I'm not going to go around dropping it on a concrete floor just for fun, but I don't feel like I need to baby it, either. It's also pretty heavy given its size, and feels very solid. Instructions? Who needs those?).įirst impressions: It's smaller than it appeared to me from the pictures on Amazon. So, I quickly open the box and product packaging, grabbed the mic, its included carrying case and the USB cable, and left without really looking at anything else (Pfft. The mic arrived via UPS on Wednesday, about 5 minutes before I was to leave for class. Listening over again to a lecture you already sat through is time-consuming and less productive than scanning a transcript for the difficult concepts presented in that lecture. You may also want to check if transcripts of your classes are available through your university, or one of its student organizations.
If you type 'microphones' (no quote marks) into the Amazon search box, you will see everything they have. They would be more compact, however.Īmazon has a slender, tall Logitech microphone with a stand for $21.91 here. Most of the ones I saw are more expensive than the Olympus, and may not work any better. There are small USB microphones that plug into a laptop's USB port. If your tablet computer has a microphone port (1/8 inch mini-jack), you could try this clip-on Olympus mic from Amazon for $22.39. I'd go for an omnidirectional mic for lecture recording. The short answer is all of the above.The Blue Snowflake microphone may be more than you need to spend, and it is a cardioid mic, with a heart-shaped recording field. At the very least, you’ll want the hypercardioid version. This is also a modular mic that comes with hypercardioid, cardioid, and omnidirectional capsules – all in one kit! This is what I would start with.īe careful when you’re shopping around because the MK-012 model name applies to several different capsules. A less expensive option is the Oktava MK-012.
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