Brandonius813
New Member
Hey guys!
I’m starting an online business and podcast from home that requires I jump on on sales calls with people regularly as well as record videos of my computer screen with a talking head. Sometimes it will just be my face. I want the quality of those videos, phone calls, and podcasts to be professional. I don’t want this to be studio level, but I want it to sound better than a laptop microphone.
Budget: Ideally $500 or less. If I need to go up by $100 or $200 to go from cutting some corners to a much higher quality setup that gives me a foundation that will last and I can expand from, I’m OK with that. I don’t want to just buy the $17 things from some FBA company on Amazon.
I need: I’ll need a BASIC camera (literally some webcam is OK for me rn), microphone, stand, lighting, and acoustic room treatment stuff.
Details:
What do I need to do to treat the room, what should I buy, and how should I set it up?
Thanks! Hope the details are helpful and I’m not just some other dude going “best mic for under $3”
I’m starting an online business and podcast from home that requires I jump on on sales calls with people regularly as well as record videos of my computer screen with a talking head. Sometimes it will just be my face. I want the quality of those videos, phone calls, and podcasts to be professional. I don’t want this to be studio level, but I want it to sound better than a laptop microphone.
Budget: Ideally $500 or less. If I need to go up by $100 or $200 to go from cutting some corners to a much higher quality setup that gives me a foundation that will last and I can expand from, I’m OK with that. I don’t want to just buy the $17 things from some FBA company on Amazon.
I need: I’ll need a BASIC camera (literally some webcam is OK for me rn), microphone, stand, lighting, and acoustic room treatment stuff.
Details:
- I like being able to move around and stand up. I have a sit/stand desk and my setup is on that. I want my audio/video setup to allow for me to be standing up and moving around a little bit while I film and not have my face pressed right up against a podcast mic if possible. I’d do a fair amount just stead in my chair too, but have the flexibility. I also just don’t like recording right up against a mic - I’ve done it in the past and it distracts me from focusing fully on my presentation.
- The room is a small bedroom. It has hardwood floors and a daybed in the corner, and one medium sized window. About 200 sqft. I’ll can post pics if it would be helpful.
- My priority is high audio quality over high video quality. People can get past mediocre video really fast, especially if it’s well lit etc. Bad audio drives me crazy.
- I’m not a complete noob when it comes to A/V - I work in the events/production department at college and manage all of our classroom A/V and Zoom systems, but those are built with a massive budget and are for a completely different scale and type of project than I’m doing. But I’m no expert or anything close to it - don’t assume I know anything.
What do I need to do to treat the room, what should I buy, and how should I set it up?
Thanks! Hope the details are helpful and I’m not just some other dude going “best mic for under $3”