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mic help needed w/ pt's express
hopefully my sig tells you my setup pretty good
my problem is w/ my mic and note that i have the gain all the way up the problem is i cant recored it with it now when i do i dont get a signal but whats wierd is that ill tap on the floor and the singal will light up????? but when i speak or sing or w/e directly into the mic nothing??? idk what should do weather i have the inputs or somthing messed up idk help please!!!! ive searched for a while and could find nothing!
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acer aspire 5733 proccessor speed - intel core i3 M 370 @ 2.40GHz OS - Windows7 PT's verison- Pt's express 10.3.3 ram- 4gb attached peripherals- mbox3 - usb attached to left usb port in computer, -on mbox- 2 14' or w/e cables for monitors that are in the back of the mbox to my 2 M- AUDIO's 40s. first input for the mbox i have my SHURE SM7B mic plugged into the back of it. and on my headphones jack i have the gold piece that plugs in and ATH-M30's plugged into the gold piece |
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Re: mic help needed w/ pt's express
do you have a mixer that you can test your SM7 on?
do you have a different mic cable to try? (I'm thinking it the cable) also the SM7 is a low output mic
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Re: mic help needed w/ pt's express
i do have a mixer but i never used it before but i dont have another cord to try so i might go try that just hope they take it back if it dont work either
and what do you mean about the output of the mic being low?
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acer aspire 5733 proccessor speed - intel core i3 M 370 @ 2.40GHz OS - Windows7 PT's verison- Pt's express 10.3.3 ram- 4gb attached peripherals- mbox3 - usb attached to left usb port in computer, -on mbox- 2 14' or w/e cables for monitors that are in the back of the mbox to my 2 M- AUDIO's 40s. first input for the mbox i have my SHURE SM7B mic plugged into the back of it. and on my headphones jack i have the gold piece that plugs in and ATH-M30's plugged into the gold piece |
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Re: mic help needed w/ pt's express
1.12 mV/pascal for a 7B
1.6 mV/pa for a 57 1.85 mV/pa for a 58 2.8 mV/pa for a Beta57 2.6 mV/pa for a Beta58 1 Pascal = 94 dB SPL doubling the voltage output for any SLP is equal to 6 dB of gain
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Re: mic help needed w/ pt's express
Just to be sure, open Setup>Hardware and make sure the Mbox is the selected audio engine. I agree that the SM7 is a low output mic(I have to crank a lot of GAIN on my preamps whenever I use mine). Another "just to be sure" question; you are using a balanced cable with XLR at both ends?(plugging most mics to a quarter inch input is not going to work). If you DO get it working, but its still low in signal, maybe a "Cloud Lifter" would solve the issue(its a box that connects between the mic and the preamp, and it adds gain).
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Re: mic help needed w/ pt's express
Yes, this is a troublesome combination.
Not only is the SM-7 a fairly low output microphone, but the mbox 3 (and the 3 pro, and the Eleven R) microphone preamp gains are low. Don't get me wrong, this is good equipment, just unfortunately low gain. Albee's suggestion of the Cloudlifter is probably the easiest solution. I will agree with that.
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Re: mic help needed w/ pt's express
the thing is those it all worked for like 2 months, i may of had to renintstall the drivers once or twice but then it always worked,, its really just when i got the monitors when it started buggin
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acer aspire 5733 proccessor speed - intel core i3 M 370 @ 2.40GHz OS - Windows7 PT's verison- Pt's express 10.3.3 ram- 4gb attached peripherals- mbox3 - usb attached to left usb port in computer, -on mbox- 2 14' or w/e cables for monitors that are in the back of the mbox to my 2 M- AUDIO's 40s. first input for the mbox i have my SHURE SM7B mic plugged into the back of it. and on my headphones jack i have the gold piece that plugs in and ATH-M30's plugged into the gold piece |
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