Audacity troubles?

[SKETCHATOR]

Hello everyone! I seem to be having a bit of an issue here...Maybe I'm just dumb, but for christmas I bought myself an Audio Technica AT202 for about $140 aaannnnd after recording it actually sounds WORSE than my onboard microphone in my camera. I've tried adjusting the bass and treble, noise reduction, I even got a pop filter for it, but it just sounds static-y and kinda buzzy with lots of background fuzz. Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks!

 

[TheBearKat]

Go into you recording devices (Right click speaker on your tool bar, bottom right). Adjust the level of volume that goes in down to about 50% and see if that fixes it, and just tweak settings from there. I did some research on your new mic and it seems some other people are having this problem and that is how they took care of it. Just keep tweaking it and you'll figure it out. It is what I had to do for my CAD U1 mic.

 

[SKETCHATOR]

Thanks bro! I'll give it a shot. Speedy reply too lol[DOUBLEPOST=1451849292,1451847912][/DOUBLEPOST]well, I tried that (for some reason it was automatically set at like 70) and although it improved a tiny bit, Im still getting the buzzing. For example, when I say something low it has a low frequency buzz, then when I shout or say something higher pitch the frequency of the buzz intensifies. It's very strange. I don't want to put up crappy audio videos anymore

 

[TheBearKat]

Thanks bro! I'll give it a shot. Speedy reply too lol[DOUBLEPOST=1451849292,1451847912][/DOUBLEPOST]well, I tried that (for some reason it was automatically set at like 70) and although it improved a tiny bit, Im still getting the buzzing. For example, when I say something low it has a low frequency buzz, then when I shout or say something higher pitch the frequency of the buzz intensifies. It's very strange. I don't want to put up crappy audio videos anymore

I totally get it, I absolutely hate when my audio quality has a tiny barely noticeable hiccup and it drives me insane. I can only imagine the frustration that comes with it especially since its a brand new very expensive microphone. Could the buzzing be coming from the mic having contact to your desk and the pc's rumbling is being picked up through it? I had to buy a suspension arm and shock mount for this reason. It could also be that you have light bulbs that are interfering. I know that sounds crazy but it used to happen to me all the time. Try recording a bit with your lights turned off or moved away from your room light. I would suggest dropping the input volume in audacity from the mic to around 50% and then use the drop down of effects in audacity and select normalize and do about -3.0... This may fix it but now promises. I think your mic might just be super touchy.