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Hi,
I'm trying to setup something at home for my own music. It'll be mainly acoustic guitars, vocal, harmonica and some electric guitar. But i'm hitting some snags that i'm hoping you can help me with.
I have an old Yamaha MT50 tape 4 track running into a Nio 2/4 and then into Reaper on a laptop.
I'm having issues with the mics going straight into the 4track though. I've got a Shure SM58 that will be the vocal mic with a no brand xlr to jack lead...that works fine.
I have a Shure SM57 that will be the guitar amp mic with a d'addario planet waves xlr to jack...that gives off a very loud buzz. If I swap the leads the SM57 works fine and the SM58 loses about 80% of its volume.
Then I have a Rode NT1-A condensor mic to use as the acoustic guitar close mic and that doesn't work at all with any lead. I'm guessing this has something to do with the phantom power but my technical knowledge is pretty dreadful so I don't know how to attempt to check or resolve it if that is the case. Do i need a preamp??
Once that is sorted my plan was to put the two acoustic channels (sm57 and condensor) hard left with the vocal hard right and then i can separate them when they come into reaper. Does that sound right?
I really hope you can help me out. I'm getting really frustrated not being able to use everything i've saved up for.
Thanks
I'm trying to setup something at home for my own music. It'll be mainly acoustic guitars, vocal, harmonica and some electric guitar. But i'm hitting some snags that i'm hoping you can help me with.
I have an old Yamaha MT50 tape 4 track running into a Nio 2/4 and then into Reaper on a laptop.
I'm having issues with the mics going straight into the 4track though. I've got a Shure SM58 that will be the vocal mic with a no brand xlr to jack lead...that works fine.
I have a Shure SM57 that will be the guitar amp mic with a d'addario planet waves xlr to jack...that gives off a very loud buzz. If I swap the leads the SM57 works fine and the SM58 loses about 80% of its volume.
Then I have a Rode NT1-A condensor mic to use as the acoustic guitar close mic and that doesn't work at all with any lead. I'm guessing this has something to do with the phantom power but my technical knowledge is pretty dreadful so I don't know how to attempt to check or resolve it if that is the case. Do i need a preamp??
Once that is sorted my plan was to put the two acoustic channels (sm57 and condensor) hard left with the vocal hard right and then i can separate them when they come into reaper. Does that sound right?
I really hope you can help me out. I'm getting really frustrated not being able to use everything i've saved up for.
Thanks