>> record something, it sounds like I'm sitting /inside/ a waterfall.
>> There's just so much hiss!
>
> That's not the microphone's fault (unless it was faulty), you're doing


Perhaps, but paying money for a sound-proofed room probably would.

> There are many
> other factors; what do you have it plugged in to (including cabling and
> where it is routed), how loud is your source and how close is it to the
> mic, what is the background noise like in the room etc. It's perfectly

> standard PC sound card in a normal quiet room. I've done it before and
> didn't have any issues with hiss.


cable the mic came with. I get about -24 dB of hiss, and the mic easily 
picks up my voice (or, indeed, the TV downstairs).

>> (What is more perplexing, you would /think/ filtering out a constant set
>> of frequencies would be pretty easy... but I've yet to find any software
>> which can actually do it.)
>
> Isn't hiss by definition all frequencies? If you want to filter out set
> frequencies that's easy, even Audacity can do that, but you won't get
> rid of hiss like that.

It seems to me that the sound is concentrated at high frequencies, but 
hey. I did try using Audacity's "noise cancel" function. You're supposed 
to feed it some hiss, and then it removes that from your actual 
recording. But I found that with the effect level low, it hardly removes 
any hiss, and with the effect level high, the actual signal becomes 
highly garbled (without actually removing all of the hiss).

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