Made a few YouTube vids lately, using OBS Studio and Kdenlive. Holding the mic and talking and typing for me is like walking and chewing gum at the same time. So I had a decent mike…I didn’t buy. I have this mike stand…I didn’t buy. It would really be handy if I could use that stand. Except the mic clip (I had to look these terms up) was too small to hold the mic. So if I just could get the proper clip it might really help. And I’m cheap. I’m really cheap when it comes to investing in something creative. Because I’m not! So I looked on Amazon, maybe the cheapest around $7. But I’d really like to work on this one video now, and really didn’t want to wait on Amazon. So I called around locally, and the first place I called said they had one. Told me to bring the mic to try before I buy.. Great I’ll just go there. Except I didn’t ask the cost. It’s a small place it’ll probably be $15 or more. When I got there, the girl was nice and the clip fit perfectly. So how much was it? With tax, a little over $4.
The stand is a old heavy floor stand. I had attached a shop light to it and had been using it as a standing floor lamp. If I put the stand and mic in front of me it’s kinda in the way. So I just put it to the side of me for a test. It worked great! So all of a sudden it sounds like I’m trying to be Mr YouTube video guy…I’m not. Not dedicated enough to do it regularly. It was just a video about something that was important to me, that I got working and I hadn’t seen a video on this topic anywhere. I also didn’t find any written tutorial about it. I ‘m more excited about doing all this on Linux with open source software. I don’t have MS-Windows or a Mac so not much choice there. I previously had made a video about Julia and thought I took it down because it had become obsolete. Surprised to find it had over 500 views. I made it using all text instructions.
I greatly favor videos where there is voice instruction. I don’t like my voice but I think a lot of people don’t like theirs either. Also I have a lot of sinus problems, often a lot of sniffing and throat clearing, Anyway I just decided to make it the way I like them. So that’s what made me want to use a mike.