# I have a microphone. Now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744 "2000-12-02T19:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/21 "2000-12-03T17:22:44Z")
make sure you turn it off before you call that reporter in the front row an a\*\*\*\*\*le. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/22 "2000-12-03T17:29:57Z")
I post the joke and forget the useful stuff I use [Cool edit](http://www.syntrillium.com/cooledit/index.html) and it does way more than I need. all I have is an old demo so i imagine the newer versions do even more. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/23 "2000-12-03T22:29:23Z")
Me too, **Welfy**! ::stands up, waves, jumps up and down:: ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/24 "2000-12-03T23:08:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \* > \*\*You have a really great voice. You’d be perfect for making a children’s album. > > _strange glance_ > > Or, um, a pop album would work too… \*\* Actually, I think doing a children’s album would rock! I could be like Judy Collins or Peter Paul and Mary and sing folk songs all day while strumming a guitar. That’s the life for me… …too bad I don’t think that there are many openings for children’s singers out there nowadays… ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/25 "2000-12-03T23:27:42Z")
A chance to hear Welfy sing? Impossible to pass up… Drop me a line, Welf? ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/26 "2000-12-04T00:36:21Z")
if you’re still making demos (not content specific), I’d love to here one! the microphone on my laptop alway gets me into trouble when I close the lid and it’s still powered up…terrible feedback. scares the hell out of me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/27 "2000-12-04T01:11:34Z")
Gimme gimme gimme! ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/28 "2000-12-04T02:29:03Z")
Wow! I just keep saying that…wow. I don’t know what the big deal is, really, but something about your voice…wow. Thanks. (all you lurkers are missing out!) ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/29 "2000-12-04T02:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > \*\*Wow! I just keep saying that…wow. > > I don’t know what the big deal is, really, but something about your voice…wow. > > Thanks. > (all you lurkers are missing out!) \*\* Hehe… _blush_ Thanks, thinksnow. I’d also like to thank all you others for your compliments. Many times I go through life thinking that my voice sucks. I guess it’s just good to be proved wrong sometimes. 🙂 My boyfriend’s mother loved the song so much that she wants me to make a cd singing Christmas songs! :eek: I’d like to try it, but first I need some basic Christmas song requests…and I’d like to run them through with you guys first if you don’t mind. Does anyone know how to get rid of those hard “p” and “h” sounds when talking and/or singing into the mike? That’s the only thing that bugs me when I record. It just ruins the whole song. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/30 "2000-12-04T03:11:24Z")
Isn’t that what those little foam things on the end of microphones are for? To block wind and sharp exhilations? I’d be happy to hear any song you might cook up, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/31 "2000-12-04T03:16:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > \*\*Isn’t that what those little foam things on the end of microphones are for? To block wind and sharp exhilations? > > I’d be happy to hear any song you might cook up, BTW. \*\* I don’t have a foam thing. ☹ My microphone is very tiny, more like a computer one than one that one would use on a stage. I had tried putting my hand in front of it before, and then singing, keeping the “foam thing” in mind, but it didn’t work, since apparently my hand isn’t made of foam. How about “Silent Night?” I’d really love to sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (my very favorite) ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/32 "2000-12-04T03:43:08Z")
Oooh, I changed my sig. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/33 "2000-12-04T03:46:09Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744/34 "2000-12-04T03:51:41Z")
I love your sig, Silo! Wow, I think that’s the first time anyone’s ever mentioned me in their sig…I’m touched, really I am. 3-4 years it took me. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-microphone-now-what/43744.md?page=1)