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🏠 How do you record your Udemy courses at home?

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🏠 How do you record your Udemy courses at home?

Not every instructor has a professional studio, expensive microphone, or perfect recording environment.

Some of us create courses using simple equipment and improve our setup gradually.

I'm curious:

🎤 Which microphone do you use?
💡 Do you use natural lighting or artificial lights?
🎬 Do you record in one take or edit multiple clips?

Share your setup and tips. It might help new instructors starting their journey! 😊

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FrankKane

A dynamic microphone, like the Shure SM7B or its newer incarnations like the MV7 are not overly sensitive, and a better fit for slightly noisy environments. Of course if you live above a noisy street or someone is standing outside your window with a leaf blower, no microphone can solve that problem.

Natural lighting is usually better than artificial if you have enough of it. I have two big windows in front of me, as well as a 3-point lighting setup if it's cloudy or dark.

I record in one take per lecture. AI tools can help with the editing, although I still find the old-fashioned way to be faster.

BrianJackson

@Digitize Learning,

I love my Audio-Technica AT2040USB microphone. It's a dynamic microphone with a built-in USB interface, so you can connect it to any computer without additional equipment (I mount it on a desk stand). It's currently $159 on Amazon.

Note: I used to use a Blue Yeti condenser microphone. The thing would pick up sound from all around, even with an expensive mic cover. Be sure to get a dynamic microphone to reduce noise.

I recorded 92 Udemy videos with no talking head, just PowerPoint slides and screencasts. Students like to see their instructors, so this is suboptimal, but it sure saves time and effort.

I hope this helps, and best of luck :-).

SivakamiS2017

I have a ATR2100x. It works beautifully most of the time. Most dynamic cardioid microphones work pretty well with some noise, if you position them right. I have done some soundproofing in my study, but if you pick a quiet time of day/night, you may not even need that.
For camera recordings, you just need to find a nice background, some paintings, a bookshelf, or even a nice clean wall.
You get great camera lights at affordable prices on Amazon these days. Just 2 will do, on both sides.

MattBarnett

One inexpensive addition to the equipment advice here: make a repeatable setup checklist. Note the microphone position, input level, chair position and lighting, then record 20 seconds and listen back before starting a batch. It can save discovering a problem after an hour of recording.

For retakes, I'd pause and restart the whole sentence, leaving a little silence on either side. Trying to repair one word can make the edit much harder to hide, especially if your pace or tone has changed.

Also test the finished lesson on ordinary headphones and a laptop speaker. The important question is whether a learner can follow it comfortably, including any quieter words at the ends of sentences. A modest setup used consistently can be a very sensible starting point.