Jan 12, 2010 10:33 am A USB mic has everything built-in. The capsule, the preamp, the converter. There is no way around it.
USB to 1/4 inch jack converter?
Posted on Jan 12, 2010 09:10 am
Steve_Law
Member Since: Jan 11, 2010
Hi,
Feeling flush some months ago I bought a £60 USB condenser mic to record acoustic guitar into my laptop. Disappointingly though it sounded tinny and crap just going striaght into the laptop.
Now I've got a Lexicon Omega audio interface to play it through first, which I believe will pre-amp it and digitise it good etc.
The problem is though that there's no USB-in socket on the Omega, just the usual jack plug sockets and two bigger weird sockets for microphones. I've got another mic but it's a really cheap and nasty one. Does anyone know if converters exist that will enable me to plug my mic into any of these?
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Jan 12, 2010 10:33 am A USB mic has everything built-in. The capsule, the preamp, the converter. There is no way around it.
Jan 12, 2010 11:27 am Didn't know that.
So there's no reason why it shouldn't work ok connected directly via USB into the laptop?
Jan 12, 2010 08:50 pm Although (as you may be finding out) that doesn't guarantee that it will sound fine... I've not heard too many USB mics that I thought were worth a hoot myself.
THAT SAID - a lot of "tinny and crap" can be a lot of things - The source, the room, etc.
I'm just saying...
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