Well....there is always the candle voice training method....that is pretty cheap....train your voice to have that deep rich professional tone of a DJ.
Well....there is always the candle voice training method....that is pretty cheap....train your voice to have that deep rich professional tone of a DJ.
Here is a gate of my cheap setup, I think it was recorded Feb, 2010.
When I say Motor Mouth Maul microphone im talking about the radio shack one.
If i remember right,
Galaxy 88
Breakaway Broadcast
Radio Shack mic
and it was recorded on a Kenwood receiver about 15 miles away
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Here's my contribution to this discussion. This is a recording of me made by Big Radio 549 in Texas a couple months ago:
http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ts-850/modulation/bill_essb.mp3
No, I don't really have a great radio voice. In fact I sound like a dork. (I need to learn not to say "uh" so much.)
I was transmitting with my Kenwood TS-850SAT and DSP-100 combo. Everything was set for ESSB audio. Normally with the TS-850/DSP-100, you can only achieve about 3Khz of audio bandwidth, but if you disable the low cut and high cut filter settings completely, it widens out to about 6Khz. Like it says in the recording, I was using a Behringer B1 mic, Behringer Xenyx 502 mixer/pre-amp, Nady 31-band analog equalizer and a Behringer MDX1600 speech processor.
Big Radio 549 was receiving me on his VooDoo-modified Kenwood TS-950SDX. The VooDoo mods for the receiver improve its RX bandwidth tremendously compared to stock. I can attest to this now that I own a TS-950SDX myself -- his receiver sounds way better than mine. Again, this recording was made in sideband, not AM.
Unfortunately I don't have any recordings of me on my TS-950SDX. I can use my TS-850's receiver to make some, but I haven't gotten around to hooking it up to the computer yet. The 850's TX frequency response is good. The 950's is even better, particularly on AM. (BTW, I posted a photo of the 850, 950 and the audio gear in the photo section recently, if you want to have a look.)
Now, the Berhinger B1 mic sells for a little under $100. Would a less expensive mic from Radio Shack on the same rig sound just as good? I really don't know.
-Bill
That sounds really good! I didn't think you sounded like a dork....lol
Just for starters using a TS-850+DSP100 will sound good,them modified+audio chain,Pee Wee Herman will sound like Barry White
The goal is to get decent audio with a cb radio like cobra148,galaxy dx949,rci-2950 or a texas ranger radio,not ham radios,afordable audio without spending over $100.00 to $150.00 in radio+audio gear.
IE: Galaxy 949 $50.00 used
ART Tube Preamp $25.00
Cheap Passive 5 Band EQ $20.00
Audio Technica ATR-30 Mic $25.00
Rat Shack 1:1 Transformer $5.00
DIY Audio Interface Cables w/ Connectors $20.00
Close to $150.00 total.
If we do it like Joe Dirt with a $50.00 radio+$5.00 Condenser Mic+Free Audio Software+$5.00 Rat Shack Transformer+$10.00 DIY Cables
Under $100.00 total
How to hook up to audio gear to your radio is all over the net,unless Joe Dirt wants to share or give us some guidance on how to connect all the equipment together or some other members that been playing with audio gear longer than us.
73 de Tecnicoloco
I don't use a isolation transformer, I bypass the Mic amp chain and drive the modulation section with my computer which is 8 ohms not 600 like the mic amp.
Did you connect straight to the balanced modulator input? I'm curious if you used a coupling capacitor, and if so what value.
My only quibble with the no-frills approach is the Radio Shack audio transformer. They work, but there's a reason they only cost $5: according to the listed specs, the frequency response is from 300Hz to 5Khz. The 300Hz low end response is pretty mediocre. At the other end of the spectrum, Jensen transformers have a response from below 10Hz to 180Khz, but they cost about $70 each. I'm not sure if there's a compromise anywhere in between.
-Bill