Advice for a gift (voice recording at home)

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Hi ti all,
next week its my gf birthday, she like to sing and record it at home!
Now she record her voice with camara (-.-) or with a shure beta mic connected to computer mic with a jack...
Of course the quality is really really poor and so noisy.

An audio interface like m-audio fasttrak its a bit too expensive for me that I have no work...so I found out BEHRINGER U-Controll 222
But for recording mic, a mixer is needed.

And there's the point.
she have a really cheap 6 way mixer with mic input BUT, it's with TRS (jack) connection and not with XLR (canon) connection.
So I want to know if the recording quality it's at least good with this configuration, or I can give her a mixer Behringer Dx100 2-way always with TRS microphone input but maybe the quality of the mixer is better that her plastic cheap mixer...

Id like to know if the sound quality between a recording with TRS jack and XLR it's so different...'cause she already record something with my sister's sound card an old m-audio podcast factory and the sound it's good...
so at least Id like to have the same quality...
thanks a lot in advace for all advice and sorry for my english...
^_^
 
The Behr U222 will not give you much better quality recording than what you've got already - but a mixer is not needed. You probably DO need an interface or preamp with phantom power for the microphone - you dont' give a model number, so we don't know.
The best advice would be to save your money and get her a proper audio interface with phantom power. Not sure where you are located but there are options less than $100.
 
Just to set the record straight!
The Behringer UCA 202/222 is way, way better than the sound card built into a PC (or mac?) I have had two of them and they both performed very well (for the technical amongst you, both achieved a noise floor of better than -83dBFS) and using a modest mixer quite good results can be achieved, close to the theoretical quality of CD and vastly better than cassette.

But I agree that in this instance the OP needs an interface. I have had some success with second hand units. Look out for M-Audio Fast track pro, Emu 0404-usb, Teac US122/144. But DO get the option to try it on GF's computer to test.

Dave.
 
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