NOISY MAC HINDERING VOICE OVER

Hi
I need to do a voice over on a video in a week or so. I have a G4 Tower - duel 1 Ghz (sometimes referred to as the 'wind tunnel' I believe). Meaning, it's a really noisy by todays standards.
I bought it new in 02, and it still works flawlessly - except for the fact it sounds like hair dryer running on a low setting.
At one time, Apple sent me a new power supply that is a little quieter, but still annoyingly loud.
So ... what is recommended to shut this thing up when doing a voice over? Do I need to get some sort of long extension for my 17 in monitor, and put it in another room with the mic - or stick pillows around the computer itself and stuff it in a closet?
Thanks!
-TOWERSCOPE

I've actually done that (the pillows thing). Then I made a box with foam glued to the inside that I would set over it when I had to do a VO... annoying, but the cheap way out. They also make sound-proof, air-cooled cabinets...
http://www.norenproducts.com/Acoustilock/gCAB.html
or DIY:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread/t-67334.html
N

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[email protected]

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Have you tried locking the VO keys? This won't make VO do what you want, but it does reduce the number of keystrokes required. Use VO-semicolon to lock the keys, then Shift-Page Down will read by paragraph, while Page Down reads by sentence. On a laptop, Page Down is fn-Down Arrow.
Alternatively, you could consider splashing out for Ghost Reader from ConvenienceWare. This provides a tape-recorder style interface, enabling you to play/pause, start/stop, fast forward and rewind on any text. You can buy it standalone or bundled with extra voices to vary your reading experience or increase the number of languages available to you.
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The 'mic jack' on the old mic is both wide and large, measuring about an inch and a quarter from the base (where it comes out of the black encasing) to the edge of the tip (sort of cone shaped). As I can't plug this in directly to any port in the back of the Mac, I thought it might be possible to to buy some sort of adapter so that I could plug in the jack at one end, with a USB connector at the other end to go straight into the Mac. But I see from your comment that you are suggesting a smaller jack itself (i.e., large size jack to small size jack and then plug in to the small round port, instead of jack to USB port)?
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While my Mac does have both inbuilt speakers (I don't need external ones) and an inbuilt microphone, the latter is not of a high enough quality for voice overs, hence buying an external mic etc. But whatever is causing the clicking or ticking is obviously affecting the quality of my recordings. As you can imagine, it is very time-consuming to edit out the ticking spikes and if the noise appears during speech, you can't edit it out at all.
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