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Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming

309 点作者 ryanmaynard超过 5 年前

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nickjj超过 5 年前
You can spend $700+ on his high end audio recommendations but 90% of home office style recording environments (even with acoustic panels) are going to have a noticeable amount of background hiss (computer fans, etc.) get picked up and his set up doesn&#x27;t account for that.<p>If you goto the OP&#x27;s Youtube channel and listen to his recordings, for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lh0sTxLs9VA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lh0sTxLs9VA</a>, there is a HUGE amount of hiss &#x2F; static in his audio, to the point where I would be uncomfortable listening to his voice for a long period of time at a medium volume. He&#x27;s using the $400 Shure mic in that video too.<p>The $100 for the dedicated 2nd pre-amp with the Triton seems pretty wasteful. As an alternative, for $299 you can pick up the DBX 286s pre-amp[0] which also acts as a noise gate (helps filter hiss &#x2F; static), de-esser, compressor and basic EQ together. It&#x27;s an awesome piece of hardware and offers way more bang for your buck.<p>Also the AT2005[1] mic is a solid upgrade from the AT2100 that he recommends, and both are about the same price. IMO the AT2005 is worth using as an end-game microphone. The AT2005 is one of those crazy mics where it almost feels like it&#x27;s mis-priced at $80 and the DBX 286 has enough knobs and buttons to make it sound good with a number of different types of voices.<p>Ultimately your real natural voice is going to play one of the biggest roles in how you sound in the end.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;2VPbmMc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;2VPbmMc</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;39hyQwI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;39hyQwI</a><p>(Yes these are affiliate links, I&#x27;ve been using both pieces of hardware for years)
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ravenstine超过 5 年前
The value of a good mic for remote work cannot be understated.<p>One of the worst aspects of my job as a remote developer has been working with people with crappy microphones. I worked with one client whose conference mic was so low-fi that a lot of what they were saying in meetings was incomprehensible. (I told them about this, but they didn&#x27;t seem to care, which is why I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not working with them anymore)<p>Going against what the author suggests, I purchased a Blue Yeti mic. The reason I went for it is that I want my coworkers to not have to strain to hear me. Ideally, it should sound as if I&#x27;m in the same room with them. With cardioid mode turned on, I can use the mic with my MacBook Pro speakers as the output channel and never have feedback issues. My home is quiet, so I never have issues with bad noises coming through. If I&#x27;m at a cafe, that&#x27;s when I&#x27;ll use my AirPods. However, I use my Yeti mic when possible. A few of my other coworkers have since bought a Blue Yeti or a Razer Seiren, and it makes a world of difference.
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SuddsMcDuff超过 5 年前
I think the section on mics could be enhanced by explaining a little about the different pickup patterns available. A cardioid pickup is a lot more appropriate for these uses than an omni pickup would be. The author mentions the Yeti mic picking up a lot of background noise - I&#x27;d bet that that mic has an omni pick up pattern. Some mics even have a small switch which allows you to cycle between different pickup patterns.<p>EDIT: While I&#x27;ve always known them as pickup patterns, I&#x27;ve just noticed that Wikipedia refers to them as polar patterns. I assume this is a more universal term.
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exabrial超过 5 年前
One thing he didn&#x27;t differentiate on was the microphone and its appearance in video casting.<p>While there are many good choices, the Shure SM7B is the quintessential desk or studio microphone for recording vocals. However, it is a bulky monster and will take up a _lot_ of real estate in a video frame. If you&#x27;re audio-only, that&#x27;s not an issue, your vocals will sound awesome.<p>For video, I really think an off-camera mic on a boom stand in sound treated room is the best option for seated, stationary casting. Many hypercardioid vocal microphones most people have actually work fairly well in this setup. Treating panels doesn&#x27;t even need to be expensive; this youtuber made really nice looking ones from towels: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WVEXp87TTrs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WVEXp87TTrs</a><p>I don&#x27;t like the sound or intrusive look of a lapel mic or the noise it picks up, for moving sequences, it&#x27;s probably the best option unless you can hire a grip.
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geocrasher超过 5 年前
I hope that nobody reading this thinks you HAVE to have these things to work from home. I&#x27;ve been WFH for the better part of a decade. Audio: A $25 Logitech H390. Video: A MS 720p webcam. Cost: Maybe $60 USD tops? I&#x27;m not in meetings all day, but really it&#x27;s not that big of a deal when I am.
PaulDavisThe1st超过 5 年前
One small point I&#x27;d like to make regarding USB mics (and USB headsets): the #1 rule of digital audio is to only have a single sample clock for the entire system (the sample clock is the thing that defines when a voltage value gets converted to&#x2F;generated from a digital sample).<p>Although I understand the plug-n-play appeal of these devices, they uniformly violate this rule because they cannot share whatever sample clock is being used for the other &quot;direction&quot; (i.e. the USB mic has its own clock, which is independent from the one used for playback).<p>Using these sorts of devices implicitly requires the audio software stack to do resampling to keep both input and output in sync with each other. For podcasting the change in quality that this causes is probably not an issue, but users should at least be aware this is happening under the hood.<p>You&#x27;re much better off getting a cheap USB audio interface, an XLR mic and doing both recording and playback via the same device (with a single sample clock).
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kh_hk超过 5 年前
To be honest, investing in a whole studio setup for remote work seems to go against one of the biggest perks of remote work itself: freedom.<p>Stock is usually good enough. That money is better invested on a pair of comfortable headphones, and also some good on-the-go light headphones with micro to hold remote calls outside of a quiet environment.
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whitehouse3超过 5 年前
It’s disappointing to see the Shure SM7B recommended so widely for use in residential environments. While Shure’s classic offering is popular among 2020 media creators (Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein, and streamers like Tfue or SypherPK) it is still cruel and unforgiving of poor microphone technique, audio reflection, and background noise. Considering its high noise floor when driven by all but the nicest preamps, other options are just more attractive overall.<p>It’s not that the SM7B is bad. Like any high end tool it requires to skill (and other high end tools) to be effective. Even in amateur hands it can sound great. But for $350 the average podcaster, streamer, or remote worker can do much better.<p>Otherwise this article is great.
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eropple超过 5 年前
A few things:<p>- Sony makes great cameras but the lenses are expensive. You can get an old Panasonic GH3 and a camlink and the lenses will be cheaper, while the image quality won&#x27;t (for this sort of use) be affected much at all.<p>- You don&#x27;t need a freakin&#x27; SM7B for this stuff. I do audio engineering as one of my too-many side gigs and the <i>most expensive</i> microphone I own is the Synco D2, an interesting little MKH416 knockoff shotgun microphone. It was $225. It&#x27;s above my head right now, I was on a call an hour ago. It&#x27;s out of frame and it sounds great. While the PR40 (which personally I prefer to a SM7B) or the SM7B are great mics for what they are, the delta between them and much cheaper competitors is not that significant.<p>- You don&#x27;t really need hardware to tune your audio stack, aside possibly from a preamp if you bought the wrong microphone (in this case, defined as &quot;the SM7B&quot;). Use your computer. It&#x27;s fast enough, it can save multiple presets, and it will <i>get out of your way</i>.<p>- Software matters. I use vMix for everything: live streaming and recording. <i>This</i> is where I recommend spending money. vMix has a reasonably featured (for the purpose--videography and audio to go with it) audio system, able to use ASIO with Windows and to use VSTs. It can support half a dozen cameras (my road kit uses 4, my home setup uses 6) and as many voices as your interface can, while supporting multi-record for archival footage&#x2F;alternate takes and a nice tablet-control interface that&#x27;s topped only by Logic Remote in this space (and if you&#x27;re only doing audio, Logic Pro on a Mac is a no-brainer).
Sholmesy超过 5 年前
Somewhat off topic, but I&#x27;ve thought this would be quite a useful thing to do just for helping my focus while working, kind of like having a permanant rubber duck.<p>Has anyone ever had experience of &quot;live coding&quot; at a company, and if so, how do you manage things like, not broadcasting a database secret, etc.<p>Are there any examples of companies letting people record their work? I remember a lot of videos floating around about &quot;a day in the life at X&quot; style things.
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Pigo超过 5 年前
I recently got a green screen to use during my video conferencing. I thought it would be fun just to mess with my co-workers, make it look like I&#x27;m on the Mars or something. I&#x27;ve yet to figure out how to get it to work with gotomeeting&#x2F;skype&#x2F;hangouts video though. I&#x27;ve found apps that can do it for recorded video, but I suppose it&#x27;s on the camera to have the chroma effect available. Which the one I have doesn&#x27;t do. I don&#x27;t want to spend too much just for a joke.
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uncensoredjrk超过 5 年前
Spending money on decent lights and cameras to then block the view with a GIANT microphone doesn&#x27;t make sense to me. I&#x27;ve been involved with professional audio for 23 years--if I were doing this, I would use a decent single ear, earset style mic. That would keep the mic out of view, provide excellent sound quality, and keep the audio consistent if you turn your head (away from a fixed mic).<p>It actually drives me nuts when podcasters use the SM7B mic and have their low-end cranked or don&#x27;t apply a strong enough HPF to compensate for the mic&#x27;s proximity effect. That&#x27;s incredibly tiring to my ears--I usually end up reducing the low end via my playback device&#x27;s EQ.<p>99% of the pre-amp options don&#x27;t matter as long as you get a strong, clean signal into a decent ADC stage. Spend your efforts on learning how to properly process the signal chain instead (apply High-pass filter, proper gain, apply dynamic compression, possibly EQ&#x2F;de-ess, etc.).<p>Sorry for the rant. :)
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outworlder超过 5 年前
&gt; Mine is the C930e, but Wirecutter now recommends the c920s, which is cheaper and adds a privacy shield.<p>Ah, Wirecutter. The same guys who will one year absolutely recommend dual-hose portable ACs (and cite many sources, including the Department of Energy) and utterly demolish the efficiency of single hose models. Then, next year, say that this is not actually important at all. Because they are less practical or something. Which is an argument they themselves discarded just one year prior.<p>What changed? That&#x27;s left as an exercise for the reader.<p>They may be fine if you use them to check products that you might otherwise have missed. But as far as recommendations go, I&#x27;m not sure they have no agenda.
jamestomasino超过 5 年前
I was a bit surprised to see the recommendation of another inline preamp in the chain with the Focusrite. He recommends a TRITON AUDIO FetHead Filter in-Line Microphone Preamp. Does anyone have further experience with this setup? I&#x27;ve been using my MXL Mics 770 Cardioid Condenser Microphone with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 with nothing in-between. I know I&#x27;ve got the gain dialed up pretty high but it never occurred to me to put something else in between them. I&#x27;d love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Is an in-line preamp worth it?
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joelrunyon超过 5 年前
I&#x27;ve been doing remote work and videos for a while. I sort of took my built-in camera for granted even though I&#x27;ve had better tools available.<p>Recently, started using the base logitech webcam and have gotten several mentions about how much better the video is from people on the other side of the calls. That sort of drove it home for me.<p>Don&#x27;t know why it took me so long for it to &quot;hit&quot; - gonna probably pick up a couple things in this post - thanks.
TheBlerch超过 5 年前
Any suggestions for maintaining sound and video quality when you are interviewing&#x2F;featuring someone remote, who does not have any special sound or video equipment beyond what they have on their laptop? Would you keep a modest kit with decent webcam and mic that you can mail them with a return label? I&#x27;ve heard of at least one podcaster doing this.<p>The comments here were as helpful as the original post - thanks all.
iambateman超过 5 年前
I just did a bunch of this over Christmas, and it was a ton of fun to set up.<p>The way I see it...people work in these offices that cost hundreds of thousands, so I will benefit from looking somewhat professional on my calls from home.<p>One frustrating note: we use RingCentral&#x2F;Zoom at work, and they only work with the Elgato CamLink once. After one call with proper video, I have to reset my PRAM.
falcolas超过 5 年前
Another audio option I don&#x27;t see mentioned often is a headset with a boom microphone. Some of my best sounding coworkers have these. They also typically have ambient sound rejection, meaning you can be in a relatively noisy environment (AC) and still sound good.<p>A nice pair of headphones can have a boom mike added with little hassle, using something like an Antlion Modmic.
sbr464超过 5 年前
Surprised the Blackmagic Design Web Presenter wasn&#x27;t mentioned. It has several nice features including switching between 2 feeds without latency.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blackmagicdesign.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;blackmagicwebpresenter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blackmagicdesign.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;blackmagicwebprese...</a>
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zebrafish超过 5 年前
One item that the author didn&#x27;t touch on was internet connection. I would imagine that streaming with a 4k camera, even with codecs and compression and stuff that i know little about, would both take a decent sized upload pipe as well as no capping on uploaded data.<p>Does anyone have more info about this piece of the set up?
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ctingom超过 5 年前
I&#x27;ve recently been thinking about really improving my home office lighting setup. For example, most of my meetings are with Zoom and on video, and proper studio lighting can go a long way to making a good impression. We all want to look good, right?
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m00dy超过 5 年前
A little off topic: has anyone managed to have chroma key effect on Mac ? I&#x27;m also thinking to have almost same concept youtube channel. But, I also want to have chroma-key background. any ideas ?
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federalemployee超过 5 年前
I hate doing video on calls. But I might be more willing with a stylish red beanie. My appearance is my biggest concern and a stylish hat is a good idea.
Mikho超过 5 年前
Doesn&#x27;t look like the author really did research on the equipment. Almost everything except maybe lighting is a wrong choice or combination.
mirimir超过 5 年前
I&#x27;d hate having a webcam for remote work.<p>I mean, I&#x27;d need to get dressed :(