Hi I am a complete noob to this.
I recently purchased an AKG D770 to use as a microphone for recording Youtube videos (nothing too serious). But Im not sure how to plug it in.
I bought it use and it came with the microphone and a female 3-pin XLR to 1/4" adapter. I plugged my micrphone into the female XLR and plugged the 1/4" into a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter and plugged that into the 1/8" microphone hole on my laptop. But nothing happens. The mike does not pic up a sound and there's no device driver installation that usually pops up on a Windows 7 machine when i plug in a new hardware.
What am I doing wrong? There's also no battery, as far as I can tell, in the mike, so how does it stay powered?
What other cables do I need to get? Thanks.
Edit: Specifically, the adapter is an Audio-Technica CP8201 Microphone Impedance Matching Transformer, 250 - 50k Ohms
I recently purchased an AKG D770 to use as a microphone for recording Youtube videos (nothing too serious). But Im not sure how to plug it in.
I bought it use and it came with the microphone and a female 3-pin XLR to 1/4" adapter. I plugged my micrphone into the female XLR and plugged the 1/4" into a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter and plugged that into the 1/8" microphone hole on my laptop. But nothing happens. The mike does not pic up a sound and there's no device driver installation that usually pops up on a Windows 7 machine when i plug in a new hardware.
What am I doing wrong? There's also no battery, as far as I can tell, in the mike, so how does it stay powered?
What other cables do I need to get? Thanks.
Edit: Specifically, the adapter is an Audio-Technica CP8201 Microphone Impedance Matching Transformer, 250 - 50k Ohms