Duilio,

Also,
I had a similar problem and built a large box and lined it with 1" thick
foam.  The foam is also covered with felt.
My application is different.  The hardware filter approach may be to extreme
and filter out sounds you desire.  There are also "directional" mics which
could "help"

David


----- Original Message -----
From: Duilio Foschi <foschid@SHUTTLE.ETRURIA.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: recording w/o noise


> I am preparing a tutorial for my new application using Lotus' ScreenCam.
>
> I have done all the video recording and now have to add the voice track.
>
> This is easily done (at least in theory) using the mic attached to the
> sound card of my PC.
>
> The problem is:
>
> all sort of noises enter my room from down the street and in all the tests
> I made the noise is well audible in the recorded track.
>
> Still I have all my things here and would hate to migrate to a different
> place.
>
> Also I guess that if I don't rent a professional recording room - what
> would be expensive and troublesome - I will find noise - more or less -
> everywhere.
>
> Is there a hw solution (a special mic ?) to filter out the noise when
> recording and/or a sw solution (Goldwave ?) to filter out the noise from
> the WAV file after the recording ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Duilio Foschi
>