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Calibrating your microphone

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Calibrating your microphone

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- [Chris] We can all forgive imperfect video, but we can't tolerate bad audio. Perfection is not what we're after. What you need to strive for is good, clean audio for all of your recordings. Now the very step in capturing good, clean recordings of your voice, is to calibrate your microphone. Skipping this step is where everyone at one point or another has gone wrong. The process is very simple and it only takes a few seconds to verify after the first time in a new location. Begin by going up to the Apple menu and selecting System Preferences. Then select Sound and go to the Input tab. This is where you'll select which microphone your Mac is listening to. Now you're list of inputs may not match mine exactly, but nearly all Macs will list the internal microphone and a line in as options. More than likely, one of these two options is currently selected for you. Now if you haven't don't so already, plug your USB microphone directly into your computer. Try to avoid plugging the microphone…

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