Microphone and Voice Recording Set Up Tutorial

1. Microphone Installation

• Types of Microphones

  

  External
  If you are using an external Microphone, you must first plug this microphone into your computer. The sockets are on your sound card are located at the back of your computer, but can occasionally be found on the front. The socket you want to plug the microphone into is usually pink (microphone) and located next to two other sockets; one green (speakers) and the other blue (line in).

  On lower quality sound cards there may be only two sockets, one for speaker out and one for line in. If this is the case use the line in. The sockets will be labelled so if they are not colored you will be able to see a microphone symbol (for the microphone socket) or an arrow pointing downwards (for the line in socket). If you cannot establish which one to use you can find it by trial and error.

  On Board
  If you are using a microphone built into your computer skip to the section "Windows Audio Settings"

2. Windows Audio Settings

• Opening the Windows Audio Recording Settings window

  You can open the windows audio Settings in several ways:

  Option 1:
  Double click the audio tray icon represented by the speaker

  

  Option 2:
  Click Start -> Click Run -> Type sndvol32.exe /rec

  

  Option 3:
  Click Start -> Click Control Panel -> Click Sounds and Audio Devices -> Click Advanced

  

• Making sure you have the Recording Control Window open

  It is likely that after completing one of the processes above you will have opened the volume control window and not the recording control window. The volume control window adjust the playback volume. We need the recording control window to adjust the recording volume. You can switch to this window by:

  Clicking 'Options' in the top toolbar -> Click 'Properties'-> Select the 'Recording' box under the heading 'Adjust Volume for' -> Click 'Okay'

  

• Adjusting the Windows Audio Recording Settings

  1. Ensure that the "Select" box is ticked under the Microphone (or Line In) input and that the volume is turned up all the way.
  2. If you see "Mute" boxes instead of "Select", check all Mute boxes other than Microphone.
  3. Also make sure volumes for the Inputs you are not using are turned down
  4. If your Microphone Input has an "Advanced" button next to it you may wish at this point to Click advanced -> Select Microphone Boost -> Click Close
  5. Close all settings windows and run the NCH product you wish to record through.

  
  

  
  

3. NCH Recording Settings

1. Ensure the correct Record Device is selected. If you are using on board sound just choose default.
2. Otherwise select your sound card from the list. Make sure you do not select your modem.
3. Ensure the input Channel is set to Windows Record Mixer

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