Jabra Evolve 75 Headphone Test

We were given Jabra Evolve 75 noise cancelling headphones at work.  So, they make nice headphones, good ANC, excellent music playback.  But how does the microphone work and sound?  We've got a couple of tracks - one unprocessed, one punched up for podcast or voiceover use.

First - the unprocessed file:





Next, the processed file - ran through Audacity with 'Normalize', 'Compressor', 'Truncate Silence'.  Still need a bit of reverb for a final cut; need to get that scripted in somehow.  Anyway - the file:


So - they sound good enough to use for podcasting (solo) or voiceover on videos - which I have a couple of queued up waiting for a decent mic.

Microphones for Podcasts

Well, now that I've got this site and RSS feed set up to podcast (tested on Podcast Addict on Android anyway) I should do some looking for a microphone.

1) The way I have the audio file storage set up on a Google Site essentially requires a desktop / laptop computer.  It's terribly difficult to upload and copy the URL from a phone on a Google Site.  Need to look into improvements in that.

2) Blogger does not have a button to add audio; you have to edit the HTML and put in the HTML 5 < audio > tag by hand, pasting in the URL from (1).

3) the Voice recorder on the Note 9 is pretty low end

4) I like punching up the sound in Audacity, which requires a PC or Mac.

Thus, 5), I need a basic USB mic to record the podcasts.

Some references I'm reading:

The Verge 2019 Mic Rundown

DiscoverPods Cheap Podcast Microphones

MicReview 2019 Podcast Microphones

And ThePodCastHost microphone list.

I have  Tascam, Marantz, and Sennheiser stereo mics; not sure if they'll play nice with the inputs on the computer.  Could get an outboard USB mixer to route one of those mics through, and add other sound as well, but I bet that'd cost more than a basic microphone.  What will I pick?  Great question - some research and comparisons to come!

- Will England - Audio Geek

Audio Blogging on Blogger Re-test, 2019

Hi!

Think this still works...


We're using the HTML5 <audio> < source></source></audio> controls to display an MP3 hosted on Google Sites.

Download the Podcast!

(As found from Lifewire)
(PDF of Lifewire as bitrot happens.)

By goodness, it does.  Be sure to stuff the MP3 URL into the 'Links', Enclosure Links field over to the right and it'll show up as a podcast in your favorite podcast listener tool.


Hope this helps someone else too!

-- Will England

First Audiocast in 10 years

Then there was sound . . . . 10 years ago I was podcasting using a variety of tools that have all gone the way of the bitbucket.  So now it's a Google Sites host for the files and Audacity for the recording.

Just a basic test to see if this is all working!

Family Archive Podcast

After ignoring chores for the past couple of hours, I've sorted out how to run a Podcast from Blogger. We'll be publishing weekly updates from the tape archive. Today's episode:

Family Archive Podcast: 1959: Robert K. Dean speaking about his son graduating from Kindergarten

You can subscribe to this RSS feed in iTunes for the full experience - including album artwork, image clips and more.


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Tech Note: I used the An-Archos Javascript widget to automatically embed the m4a file in this blog post. Made my life a lot easier it did.