V5 and Mixer

tjglfr wrote on 6/7/2004, 5:55 PM
I have a Dell computer with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card, the one with 5.1 and Firewire (it came with the computer). I hooked up an old Mackie MS 1202 and the audio souds terrible (overmodulated), the guys at Dell told me to conect it to the blue input and I never got any audio in. I pluged it to the input to the left an I get the overmodulated sound. Do I have to have something between the mic and the mixer? or between the mixer and the sound card? or just a better sound card. The mic is an inexpensive Audio-Techica shotgun, but, the guitar sounded just as terrible.

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PipelineAudio wrote on 6/7/2004, 7:35 PM
Do you have a way to power that shotgun? Ive never seen an inexpensive shotgun before, are you sure thats what it is? It needs power of some kind either its own battery or Phantom.

What is your monitoring chain?

If its clicking, like a set of discrete sliced up samples, or gapping, and you are using Vegas' input monitoring, well that is kinda par for the course. If its distorting, make sure you sre sending to your soundcard's LINE inputs, from the mackie mixer's LINE outputs to start with, you can get trickier later.
tjglfr wrote on 6/7/2004, 8:38 PM
The mic is battery powered, I think I wasn't watching the meters in Vegas, only at the mixer. I notices that -20 in the mixer will give a good level in Vegas. But still, the quality is not very good. The mic is a $50 Audio-Techica with normal and tele settungs.
I don't know what you mean by monitoring chain.
The mic is on line in. The output is main out with 2 RCA's connected to the sound card with a mini. Kinda Mickey Mouse, right?
Cold wrote on 6/7/2004, 8:56 PM
Plug headphones into the board and listen to the mic. Does this sound the same as the played back track of the mic from vegas or different? Trying to narrow down the issue.
Steve S.
tjglfr wrote on 6/7/2004, 10:30 PM
Once I go by the meters on Vegas, the voice over levels match up more or less. The one I'm having problems matching is the bass guitar, the level sounds fine on the headsets and the levels in the mixer are around -20 and
-15, but when I play it back in Vegas it's very low, and I can't see any peeks in the track.
Cold wrote on 6/9/2004, 5:30 AM
1. make absolutely sure you are plugged into the line in on the sound card and not the mic in.
2. open the creative mixer app and make sure that the line input is enabled and the fader is at a reasonable level.
3. open vegas and compare the record levels in vegas to the mixing board. Tweak the creative mixer until the two levels match.
Steve S.