Microphone Showdown 3: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Microphone Showdown 3, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Microphone Showdown 3 by Various. Read in English by Algy Pug; Newgatenovelist; Patrick Eaton; Ruth Golding; Mark Nelson; Bethesda Lily; Maria Kasper; melchior; Glenn O'Brien; Carol Box; Jennifer Fournier; Kristin Gjerløw; tovarisch; Beth Thomas; Son of the Exiles; Brian Darby; Scotty Smith; Harley James; Andrew Frueh; Mark Crowle-Groves; Peter Thomlinson and Eva Davis. This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to the first Microphone Showdown project which was catalogued in 2011. Since that time the range of devices available for the recording of spoken audio has increased significantly. - Summary by Algy Pug

Recording facts

• Recording title: Microphone Showdown 3
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 1:27:28

Catalogue topics

• microphone
• sound recording
• equipment

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01 - Ozymandias - Rode - NT1A, Yahama Audiogram 6 USB interface, Windows desktop PC — 1:30
2. 02 - Mutability - Samson - Q7, Yahama Audiogram 6 USB interface, Windows desktop PC — 1:37
3. 03 - A Dream Within a Dream - Logitech - C615 webcam — 1:32
4. 04 - Go, Lovely Rose - MXL - USB.007 — 1:18
5. 05 - A Thing of Beauty - Dell - Venue Pro tablet internal microphone — 1:50
6. 06 - Embarcation - Zoom - H4N Handy Recorder — 1:22
7. 07 - Death - Samson - Meteorite USB — 1:15
8. 08 - Decline and Fall (Gibbon) - Kinobo - Akiro USB — 1:46
9. 09 - Emaricdulfe - Samson - Q1U USB — 1:33
10. 10 - The Evil Monk - Apogee MiC - USB & MacBook — 1:12
11. 11 - Echoes - Audiotechnica - AT2035 XLR condenser microphone, Focusrite iTrack Solo USB, MacBook — 1:13
12. 12 - Psalm 133 (Watts) - Internal microphone, Dell Inspiron laptop, Windows 7 and Audacity 1.3 — 1:13
13. 13 - Psalm 61 (Watts) - Olympus DM-620 Digital Voice Recorder — 1:04
14. 14 - Burning Leaves November - Lenovo - Thinkpad internal microphone — 1:07
15. 15 - An Open Fire - Samson - Gomic USB — 1:20
16. 16 - Morn - Samson - GoMic USB (with 10 Db pad) — 1:26
17. 17 - Pride & Prejudice (excerpt) _ Studio Projects C1 and Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 — 1:52
18. 18 - Metsään nukkunut - Studio projects C4 Mk II (omni capsule) and FocusRite Scarlett 8i6 — 1:59
19. 19 - Filosofeeraava ylioppilas - Studio projects C4 Mk II (cardioid capsule) and FocusRite Scarlett 8i6 — 1:39
20. 20 - The Three Quiet Gentlemen - Havit HV-DM8313 USB Dynamic Microphone — 1:34
21. 21 - Excerpt from Kavanagh - Blue Yeti USB — 1:16
22. 22 - Excerpt from the Flower Princess - Samson Q1U USB — 1:01
23. 23 - Excerpt from Peer Gynt - AKG Perception 120 USB microphone — 1:12
24. 24 - Sonnet 102 - AKG P220 through PreSonus iOne interface — 1:39

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