Microphone picks up laptop fan

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I have a Blue Yeti and my laptop fan is pretty loud while recording.

Would it help (a lot) if I bought a boom arm, shock mount and popfilter?
At the moment the mic is just standing on my desk and picks up every vibration and sound.
 
I jury rigged a shockmount and it helped a lot, I also used to have the microphone on the same desk of the PC and picked up all the vibrations. What I did (with some help) was basically create a square frame with wood pieces and then staple pieces from the inner tube of a bycicle inner tire (don't laugh please, it's what we had around the house) to form a surface. The elastic absorbed the vibrations (I also have a Yeti) and vastly improved the background noise. I also used a wool beanie as a makeshift pop filter for a while. I found the old pictures I posted on Twitter:
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Hope this helps.
 
I have a boom arm that has served me pretty well! I have a snowball and it sits great on it! However I don't haven't had any issues with my mic picking up extra background sound or anything! I keep my pc and PS4 which gives the most fan noise below my desk! Try to move the placement of your mic away from your laptop and see if it gets better!

Btw Conso awesome work making your own shock mount and I'm sure that pop filter works perfect! :D
 
Also, what editing software do you use?Many programs have audio noise reduction as a built in affect.

If yours does not, download Audacity and run your audio through that and apply the background noise reduction affect through there.

That should get rid of backgrounds hums and hisses like a fan or your a.c. or whatever.
 
Teknickel 10 said:
Also, what editing software do you use?Many programs have audio noise reduction as a built in affect.

If yours does not, download Audacity and run your audio through that and apply the background noise reduction affect through there.

That should get rid of backgrounds hums and hisses like a fan or your a.c. or whatever.
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I use audacity.
I have tried that before, but it makes the sound very weird/unnatural.
 
Have you use the sound reducer of audacity? Mine works pretty well in removing the wind sound coming from my fans and the fountain in the garden :)
 
Shendijiro said:
Have you use the sound reducer of audacity? Mine works pretty well in removing the wind sound coming from my fans and the fountain in the garden :)
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I haven't thinkered around too much with audacity.
I have mostly just tried the remove noise feature.
 
The Blue Yeti is a condenser mic and is designed to pick up background noise.

What you need is a dynamic mic (I'm speaking as someone who had a Blue Yeti so I know it's strengths and weaknesses).

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I was going to suggest a noise reduction but it seems to already have been suggested haha.

If you weren't sure how to use it in Audacity i believe a good way to do it is allow a good few seconds for the microphone to pick up just the ambient sounds of your room before you record any voice. Then you can easily use the reduction feature to just target that sound throughout the session
 
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