Audio Technica Condenser Microphone

As internet marketers we have many uses for clear, professional sounding audio and there is none better than you can get with an Audio Technica condenser microphone.  A condenser mic gives you an especially clear recording with very well balanced highs and lows giving your listener the feeling that you are in a Million dollar audio production studio.

The great part is that the Audio Technica condenser microphone has come down dramatically in price – I recall paying well over $300 for mine back a few years ago when there are great microphones like this Audio Technica AT2020USB Condenser USB Microphone available for under $100! 

Not only is this a leading condenser mic but it is also a usb microphone which means that you can connect it directly to your computer or usb device without having to fiddle with traditional XLR microphone jacks. 

If you require a vocal microphone for recording promotional videos, audio ebooks or digital info products, interviews or podcasts then this Audio Technica condenser microphone will turn your home office into a premiere audio recording studio. 

Jump on it now at this deal and you'll be pumping out terrific audio recordings within no time.

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Once you have decided to get into producing your own information products, following a plan like the one set out in the Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package, you can be days away from offering your own high quality, digital download audio and written infoproducts – the secret – record telephone interviews.

With today's technology you have the ability to record a telephone interview right from your own home and have it clear, and even adding intro music making your recording professional – all for next to no investment. 

You can record decent interviews for well under $100 or turn your home office into a professional broadcast studio for under $1,000.  Depending on your market, you can pay this investment off on your very first infoproduct with just a few product sales.

So, here are a few options to consider in your goal to record a telephone interview to sell or give away online.

Capturing your call from the handset.  There are a number of recording taps you can get from your local electronics store that allow you to tap into your handset or wall jack capturing your telephone call from your house or office. 

The good part is that these record a telephone interview devices are inexpensive – less than $30 and you can get them anywhere.  The downside is that your voice will almost always be much louder than your interviewee and your recording will typically not be of very high quality. 

For phone recordings that are more balanced in terms of volume I have used services such as freeconferencecall.com which will give you a free conference bridge for 3-months and record to mp3. 

Quality is still not top notch, but at least they seem to do a pretty good job of balancing the volume. 

For better quality recordings there are two ways…

1. Have both end of the interview record directly to their own digital audio device or PC with a quality microphone…means your interviewee must know what they are doing — or —

2. Use broadcast quality phone splitters that are capable of sitting between your phone and your phone line and splitting the signal so you can control both lines of the conversation. 

A good place to find these tools is jkaudio.com – look for the Inline Patch or Gatekeeper

In these cases, I like to record to an Olympus digital recording device – these little guys support external microphones and directly connect to your PC via USB to transfer the file in a wav format. 

Then you can use free audio editing software called Audacity can take your wav file, allow you to edit it down (split it into multiple parts, fade in-out, add intro music, edit any background hiss) and then produce it as an mp3 if you wish. 

One word of adivce, if you do decide to record using the phone tap devices I mentioned earlier, test both ends of the interview first identifying any weaknesses in your interviewee's phone or phone line. 

If your goal is to record a telephone interview, you have many options to get things rolling – try one of them out, edit your recording down and begin your new venture of publishing information for profit.

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Sure enough, when I put my first ebook up, it sold like wildfire and created a very nice source of income, but it quickly hit me that it was going to take a HUGE number of $27 ebook sales to reach my financial goals, that's when I decided to bundle a checklist and audio package along with some bonuses and create a Guidebook charging $67 instead of $27.

I was scared that my business would plummet, but instead, sales stayed the same and my profits doubled AND I found I was attracting more affiliates so my sales actually went up over time. (Turns out if you sell higher priced products and give your affiliates more commission they'll like that better…go figure?)

Then, I packaged some more interviews and shipped my product on CD and charged $79, put together a coaching program at $150/hour to start and then opened my private member site at approx $200. 

Since that time I've packaged information into many different formats and bundles…which got me to thinking, why not share this in a video…so that's what I did right here:

Folks, the video does not lie.  It's often just as easy (sometimes easier) to package the same information in a different way and make 3-50 times more profit from the same content.  If you're planning your first or next information product, be sure to consider one of these 25 Underground InfoProduct Profit Formats. 

If you want to accelerate your information publishing business growth, then head over to InfoMarketerszone where Top Gun information marketers help each other to dominate their markets. 

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It sounded like I was talking from the inside of a tin can – I can't imagine how people would sit through 1-hour of information listening to that.

Even worse, what I had to say was valuable, I wanted people to hear – in fact some of these were interviews with the very top names in internet marketing discussing purely brilliant concepts, ideas and experiences…but due to my mistakes, these audios were horrible to listen to.

What was wrong?

My voice was too quiet, too thin, it sounded like I was a mile away from the microphone.  In many cases the background noise was unacceptable and because there was constant background noise the files were actually large – even though most of the contents was background noise.

For a while I looked at using all kinds of fancy audio editors and plugins to elimintate background noise, improve the volume of the audio, remove annoying pops, and apply all sorts of filters – but that just made the file bigger and the sound worse.

In the meantime I tried microphone after microphone – most of them headsets, lavaliers, you name it.  I had spent over $200 in different low-end mics trying to improve the sound.

Then it struck me…why not just invest in a quality studio microphone and be done with it.

What a difference! 

Suddenly my voice sounded full, deep, professional and like I was sitting right in front of my listener. 

Even better…no more editing, filters, or time-consuming screwing around with the audio to try and improve the sound.

I now use the microphone on ALL of my audio products including audio newsletters, audio podcasts, interviews, audio checklists and e-books that I record. 

Let me tell you – the sound is amazing. 

Here are a few of the top condensor microphones you will want to take a look at…

1. Audio Technica AT2020

I've used many Audio Technica microphones over the years and always found them to be among the leaders in price and performance – this would be my top recommendation for someone who wants to record excellent voice quality for voice or acoustic instrument recordings.  With this microphone you will need to have an external mixer providing phantom power. 

2. Samson – Multi-Condenser Mic

One of the more reasonably priced, high quality studio microphones AND it connects directly to any PC using USB.  In this case, you won't need an external mixer, but would input the MIC right into the USB jack of your computer where it gets its power and can be recorded directly by a product like Audacity.

Remember that you will also want to get a shockmount base such as this one Samson SP01 Shockmount to hold your microphone and maximize audio quality.  

As you can see, for under $100 you can get a top quality studio microphone that will make you sound like a professional audio studio and save you hours (if not days) of editing time.

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Over the last few years I have created dozens upon dozens of audio including audio books, podcasts plus more than 50 expert audio interviews. 

I had the great fortune of interviewing an incredible authority on the topic of recording high quality audio books and audio digital information products – Virginia Culp.

You can download and listen here:

"An Interview With Audio Tech Master Virginia Culp"

Virginia is the audio technical expert behind many of the BIG NAME information marketing gurus on the internet today — download and listen to the interview at the link above and you will get an idea for how professional an audio can sound coming out of your home.

Virginia and I conducted this interview over the phone – but you would never know it to listen to the interview.

In the interview Virginia shares many "insider tips" on producing audio products that will easily place you in the top 5% of your field.

But…in a 40-minute interview she can't cover it all, so – happily I was able to get her to agree to give readers of this blog an extra special package of her top tips, best tools and even some royalty free audio loops that will help to make your audio products sound just like the pro's.

This package has never been offered before and will only last a short time so head over and take advantage right now:

Virginia's Audio Bootcamp Special Bundle For Jeff's Blog Readers…

Virginia's techniques are in HIGH demand these days – especially after one of her customers turned his knowledge into a $15,000 Audio Package!  Professional audio will give you high-value products to sell online, will help you stand out from your competition and will help you quickly become a major player in your chosen niche market.

Record an audio book, turn your ebook into an audio CD series, produce your own expert audio interviews that don't sound like they were recorded a million miles away – it's all inside this special package, check it out here:

Virginia's Audio Bootcamp Special Bundle For Jeff's Blog Readers…

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