Today I realised that, since I got a new laptop recently (or, well, started using the laptop my dad bought for work but never used), I could try and re-record the voicebank for my UTAUloid/vocalsynth self-insert, Seralune
The good news is that I was able to get through a reclist before my parents got home, and even just from testing her on the first line of a song (I picked Sand Planet, obviously), she sounds so much better than before - you can really hear how much clearer the quality is from this new laptop's microphone
The bad news is that I think the improvement in quality comes from some sort of automatic noise cancelling in the microphone, because I had to wait for two seconds before recording each file to make sure the start didn't cut off, and even then it refused to record a few of the sounds properly.
So she does sound a lot better than before.. on the syllables that didn't get horribly crunched or made almost silent, which is quite a few of them ._.