blastblister
New member
Hello!
I have just bought some simple equipment to start recording electric guitar at home in my apartment and I have some problems with the input volume. If anyone can provide some helpful expertise I'd be very thankful!
My recording equipment (except for my guitar and amplifier) consists of:
- A Shure SM58 microphone (brand new)
- A U22 XT interface from Esi (brand new)
- Macbook Pro (an older one from 2011) with Logic Pro X
So the problem is this:
The input volume from the guitar is extremely weak and silent with both the amplifier volume and the mic gain on a pretty high level and the only way right now that I can get a normal level of recording volume is to ether have the gain on the interface so high that the sound quality turns to shit, or the amplifier volume up so insanely high that I will be evicted (with the gain on a more normal level).
The volume of the tracks in Logic is not the problem and neither is the level of output gain from the interface. I have searched online and the closest I have gotten to the problem/solution is that it is allegedly caused by the "PAD" on the interface - but mine doesn't seem to have a button or switch for that.
The weird thing is that when I speak directly into the mic very closely (touching it with my mouth) and record, the input and output volume comes out fine, but put it right against the amplifier surface and.. almost nothing (even though the amplifier as mentioned already is on high volume - as high as it could possibly be in an apartment that is).
Even though I've become fairly comfortable with Logic over the years I am not a recording expert by any means and have always had other people as engineers during recording sessions that I've participated in (as a musician)... so maybe I'm doing something idiotic?
Cheers!
I have just bought some simple equipment to start recording electric guitar at home in my apartment and I have some problems with the input volume. If anyone can provide some helpful expertise I'd be very thankful!
My recording equipment (except for my guitar and amplifier) consists of:
- A Shure SM58 microphone (brand new)
- A U22 XT interface from Esi (brand new)
- Macbook Pro (an older one from 2011) with Logic Pro X
So the problem is this:
The input volume from the guitar is extremely weak and silent with both the amplifier volume and the mic gain on a pretty high level and the only way right now that I can get a normal level of recording volume is to ether have the gain on the interface so high that the sound quality turns to shit, or the amplifier volume up so insanely high that I will be evicted (with the gain on a more normal level).
The volume of the tracks in Logic is not the problem and neither is the level of output gain from the interface. I have searched online and the closest I have gotten to the problem/solution is that it is allegedly caused by the "PAD" on the interface - but mine doesn't seem to have a button or switch for that.
The weird thing is that when I speak directly into the mic very closely (touching it with my mouth) and record, the input and output volume comes out fine, but put it right against the amplifier surface and.. almost nothing (even though the amplifier as mentioned already is on high volume - as high as it could possibly be in an apartment that is).
Even though I've become fairly comfortable with Logic over the years I am not a recording expert by any means and have always had other people as engineers during recording sessions that I've participated in (as a musician)... so maybe I'm doing something idiotic?
Cheers!