{"id":5010,"date":"2023-11-12T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T02:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T02:58:19","slug":"mobileviews-mini-podcast-39-outdoor-recording-using-a-low-cost-spkpal-usb-c-cardioid-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/12\/mobileviews-mini-podcast-39-outdoor-recording-using-a-low-cost-spkpal-usb-c-cardioid-mic\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews mini-podcast 39: Outdoor recording using a low-cost SPKPAL USB-C cardioid mic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"MobileViews mini-podcast 39: Outdoor recording using a low-cost SPKPAL USB-C cardioid mic\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=tphxs-14f84e4-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5011\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MViews-mini-39-SPKPAL-mic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MViews-mini-39-SPKPAL-mic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MViews-mini-39-SPKPAL-mic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MViews-mini-39-SPKPAL-mic-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MViews-mini-39-SPKPAL-mic.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SPKPAL USB-C microphone<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn this mini-podcast, I tested a low-cost ($40) SPKPAL USB-C cardiod mic to record audio outdoors in order to learn if it might be usable to record a group (more than two people) podcast in a environment with noticeable ambient sound (wind, traffic, other people).<br \/>\nThe first half (about 3 minutes) of the podcast is the raw audio recording. In truth, I amplified the volume. However, no other post-processing was performed. The second half of the podcast is the same audio post-processed by Adobe Podcast Enhance.<br \/>\nGenerally speaking, I&#8217;m pleased with the sound quality of both parts of the audio (unprocessed and processed) and plan to use this mic to record an in-person podcast soon.<\/p>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&#038;sr=1-1&#038;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&#038;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&#038;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d<\/a>MobileViews Podcast from Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this mini-podcast, I tested a low-cost ($40) SPKPAL USB-C cardiod mic to record audio outdoors in order to learn if it might be usable to record a group (more than two people) podcast in a environment with noticeable ambient sound (wind, traffic, other people). The first half (about 3 minutes) of the podcast is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-1iO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}