HELP required for getting recordin standards upto studio quality?

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HELLO... my problem is I have a RODE NT1 microphone and a standard mixing desk a BEHRINGER EURORACK MX802A it has phantom power to power the mic and a ST AUDIO DSP24V soundcard. I have recently bought these products and I was hoping to get my quality upto studio standards. I noticed that it seems kind of echoey when recording, I am not sure I have set up the soundcard right but I think it is and im not sure if the mixer needs something done to it. is the mic rubbish or need any add ons i have a pop shield for the mic. well any help / information would be much appreciated please. thanx

I have included pics/info of these products.

RODE NT 1 - http://www.digitalvillage.biz/aprod...p?ProductID=568

BEHRINGER EURORACK MX802A - http://www.digitalvillage.biz/aprod...p?productID=314

ST AUDIO DSP24V - http://www.digitalvillage.biz/aprod...?ProductID=2000

THANX YALL!!

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this is for recording solo rap tracks.

 

[Seanmorse79]

You shouldn't be getting any reverb at all, short of any natural reverb coming from the room you're recording in itself (and if you're fairly close to the mic, you shouldn't hear much of that).

Some people might scoff at the mic or mixer, but it's definitely not junk. You should be able to get a pretty damn good sound out of it.

Here are a few guesses:

1) Your mixer is adding reverb somehow. Make sure you're not using any effects while tracking - i.e. make sure your AUX knobs are all off.

2) You're singing to far away from the mic and the mic is picking up too much reverb from the room

3) There's a problem with your soundcard/software setup

4) Your recording app is adding reverb. Make sure your insert and master effects are all down to try to isolate the problem.

Try plugging headphones into the mixer's headphone jack and see if you hear the reverb through the headphones. That'll give you a starting point at very least.

 

[RWhite]

Sean pretty much covered it. I own both that same mic and mixer (although they are in different "studios") and they are definately not junk, regardless of what anyone says. They (especially the mixer) are not what I would call "professional grade" but these sorts of valuations are subjective.

Like Sean said, you may be picking up echo from the room. If you have never used a condensor mic before you may be shocked at how much they pick up. My NT1 was (and is) my first and only condensor mic after using Shure SM-57 and 58 mics for many years. The NT1 picks up my furnance fan, my AC unit dripping water, my next door neighbor snoring in bed (well maybe not that much...). It will also pick up subtle echos off of walls. Do some experimenting.

It also makes a difference how you have your mixer wired. For example, are you using the main outs or the tape outs to go to the sound card?

 

[SCI]

IM USING THE TAPE OUTS. i got all the wires hooked to the soundcard 2 ins 2 outs.

yo could you tell me how you have the settings on yours pleace. the gain, lo hi middle shit aswell this would be alot of help.

thanx.

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HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!

 

[RWhite]

Understand that my Behringer mixer almost never has mics plugged into it. The mics reside in my basement studio which uses a different mixer. My Behringer mixer sits in my computer room where it mixes several line-level devices, including sound card(s) inputs and outputs.

I keep the bass/mid/treble controls all flat. I used to give a small bass boost with my old computer speakers. Right now though I'm using some Event 20/20 monitors and the whole idea behind monitors is to keep them as flat and un-altered as possible.

The way I have my mixer wired is as follows (assuming I remember since I don't have it in front of me right now) -

Inputs

Channel 1 & 2 feed in from an external stereo receiver which feeds in radio / CD / cassette when I feel like playing such things, or transfering them to the PC.

Channel 3 & 4 feed playback from my Audiophile 2496 sound card

Stereo input 5/6 feeds in the audio output from my ATI All-In-Wonder card, which allows me to watch cable TV on the computer screen (and record it to hard disk if I feel inclined to, which is never)

Stereo input 7/8 is unused right now.

Outputs -

The Control Room out feeds an amplifier which in turn feeds my monitor speakers

The Main outs feed the line in on my Audiophile card. Previously when I used a Sound Blaster Audigy card for recording I used the mixer Tape outs because the signal level of the tape out was a better match for that card. The Audiophile can accept the hotter signal from the mains.

The thing you have to look out for with this type of set up is that you can easily create a feedback loop. When I used the Audigy card I had to always remember to mute the "line in" from playback, otherwise the card passes the incoming signal on to its output and you have a feed back loop. When recording I would have to shut off the playback on channels 3 & 4 and then un-mute the card. The Audiophile is nice because it's mixer panel does this automaticly.

Hope this answers some of your questions....