DollieLlama - My husband, ThornDaddy, records me using a MXLV63M condenser microphone ($100) on a stand, w/ shock mount and pop filter, an Alesis MultiMix 8USB Mixer ($150), recording on a Toshiba Satellite with a gig of RAM, recording into Sony Sound Forge. After editing, run file through Levelator program, then back into Sound Forge to make OGG files. We covered the walls in our podcasting studio with rug scraps. It's nice and dead sounding in there.
DO'Neil – PC running Windows XP,
Audacity, recordings done with a cheap Verbatim headset microphone.
GDallimore – HP PC, various NCH Swift Sound software products,
Shure PG81 microphone connected via an
M-Audio "Solo" Firewire Audio Interface.
Luigi30 – PC running Windows XP. Recording with GoldWave to either high or low bitrate Ogg Vorbis depending on length, and using a headset microphone.
Rfc1394 – Hewlett-Packard a305w running
Windows XP home with noname generic $6.00 microphone, built-in sound card and
Audacity.
silsor – home-built Athlon PC with cheap ES1371 sound card,
Audacity/
ALSA/
Debian (all free software), $3 microphone. If I can do it so can you!
Tmalmjursson – Dell Optiplex GX260, running Linux (Mandriva) With Audacity Version 1.2.4, £19 Headset Mic (Trust), Onboard Sound (Intel 82801 Chipset) - Total cost: £1300
Troythompson – home-built Athlon PC, Windows XP,
Audacity, Plantronics series headset (about $40 USD).
Veratien – Packard Bell A8550 dual booting Debian Sarge and Windows XP. Recording onto external USB storage using an
AKG C3000B through a
Behringer Eurodesk MX2442A into an external EM-U 1616M DSP. Mastered using Audacity on both machines and operating systems. Total cost: ~£2200 (I'm a Music Composition student.)
Tonyle – Hardware: Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 GHz, SoundBlaster Audigy, Windows Vista, $15 Plantronics microphone. Software:Audacity helps remove noise and improve bass,
Levelator makes the sound level consistent throughout the recording. Interesting tricks: I sit under a comforter draped over two chairs to reduce echo, and place a cotton ball over the microphone to reduce popping and essing.