…and an aggressively hostile recording environment. I’m beginning to get a little worried about the reality of picking up four people in a room together. I have the line-in mixer, four clip-on PC mics, a USB preamp with two XLR/Line inputs, a condenser mic… I’m happy to toss some money (ideally not more than $150) at the setup but I’m not sure where to start. I would love to get the individual mics working, but at this point I’m not too sure what the solution would be with those. This is all going to be live over, so nothing that will be archived and mixed/mastered post-recording. My concern is the gain I’ll have to put on the mic to pick everyone up, and then dealing with the background noise. We’ll be sitting on a couch next to each other, so I’m imagining putting the mic on a table in front of us will have to do. I’m mostly concerned with getting everything to acceptable levels. It’s a living room so acoustics will be less than ideal. I’m not going for studio quality but getting a clear recording of four people and mixing it with game audio will be a challenge. The mic is an MXL V63M, no toggle for patterns just the simple cardioid. How much noise does your computer make? That’s going to be a performer now. I just need a comfortable, air conditioned, quiet room with no echoes.Īctually, that brings up another studio problem. I usually catch myself just short of saying “recorded in a garage,” but my garage isn’t all that bad with its peaked roof and hundreds of boxes of trash. Unless you have a deeply carpeted room with lots of bookshelves and cottage cheese ceilings, it’s going to sound like a kitchen. There’s no filter for room ambiance and echo. You were on the right track with the individual microphones. The show will sound like you’re recording in a rain barrel and some of the rapid speakers may be difficult to hear on the recording. I can tell you what the next problem is going to be. You want the round one (omni-directional). Here’s one with all the patterns (attached). Does it have a part number by any chance? Some talented microphones have pattern settings. MXL condenser mic that I could probably use to pick up everyone in the room They make headphone mult boxes so everyone can have their own volume control. Then running separate headphones for everyone? What you should be doing is get everyone to record their voice on their own cellphone Personal Sound Recorder and then send you the sound files to mix down in Audacity. And for that money you can get a different microphone. You might well ask if I doubled the cost of the microphone (headset in this case). I think he somehow did it without soldering. Click on the image and zoom out your browser. One poster designed and built multiple battery adapters and actually got his to work. It’s a fairly common problem to want to connect several computer microphones to a mixer. Headphone out to computer Line-In.Īs an added feature, it won’t supply power to run the microphones.īefore you charge off looking for a mixer that will do all those tricks, I bet you don’t find one. Headphone connections can usually be used as Line Level sound. You can use that to fade between, say a CD player and the sound from a DVD player. Microphone volume is roughly 1000 times quieter than line volume. If you plug it into a computer, the microphone gets its juice from the sound card. That’s why it says “Computer…” in the title. From there on, the microphone looks like a simple microphone and I can plug it into any mixer where I can build the adapters. I have similar microphones, but mine have a fat place in the cable where I slip a “watch battery”. They have internal electronics that must be powered. These microphones have to get their power from somewhere. I know this is probably a novice question so I apologize in advance for the eye-rolling, but does anyone have an idea about what I’ve done wrong here? Thanks in advance. I’ve plugged the mics directly into the PC and they all work fine. However, it seems there’s a problem with the adapters, because when I pop them onto the mics and run them into the PC, the sound is almost nonexistent except when the gain is pushed all the way up, everywhere. The idea was to run the lapel mics into the 4-channel mixer using the adapters, then run the output of the mixer (1/4") into the USB preamp, which is recognized as an input device in Windows. I also have a 1/4" cable and a USB preamp. I’m participating in the Extra Life marathon this year and am trying to get a good setup going, as I have three friends joining me.
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