Steven Jamella
New member
Hi everyone,
I'm new here and I'm asking for help with an issue with a couple of sennheiser e914 that I've recently bought and as far as I know they are very excellent mics.
I'm using them to record a drumset as overheads. Actually, I'm just a drummer and not a sound engineer, but I'm trying to do some decent home recordings.
I'm having trouble with their signals. I'm connecting them to a presonus firestudio project audio interface with a XLR cable on a phantom-powered input.
The microphone sensitivity is set to its default which is 0 (I can also use -10db and -20db attenuation) and the bass filter is set to bass (other settings are roll off and cut off).
When I connect the cable and run the phantom power with those settings in a few seconds the signal goes in overload and I can hear a helicopter-effect in the output.
This effect is better when I switch the attenuation or I switch the bass filter to roll-off or cut-off, but when I'm recording, the audio sounds distorted. The input signal is healthy, but seems like the sound is clipping. I've already tried every kind of mic positiong all around the room and in different rooms, same result.
Has anybody come across anything that might cause this?
Thanks in advance.
I'm new here and I'm asking for help with an issue with a couple of sennheiser e914 that I've recently bought and as far as I know they are very excellent mics.
I'm using them to record a drumset as overheads. Actually, I'm just a drummer and not a sound engineer, but I'm trying to do some decent home recordings.
I'm having trouble with their signals. I'm connecting them to a presonus firestudio project audio interface with a XLR cable on a phantom-powered input.
The microphone sensitivity is set to its default which is 0 (I can also use -10db and -20db attenuation) and the bass filter is set to bass (other settings are roll off and cut off).
When I connect the cable and run the phantom power with those settings in a few seconds the signal goes in overload and I can hear a helicopter-effect in the output.
This effect is better when I switch the attenuation or I switch the bass filter to roll-off or cut-off, but when I'm recording, the audio sounds distorted. The input signal is healthy, but seems like the sound is clipping. I've already tried every kind of mic positiong all around the room and in different rooms, same result.
Has anybody come across anything that might cause this?
Thanks in advance.