Help!!!

[adicreed]

Ok so I'm new to this board and pretty much to recording vocals. Here's what I have, mind you these are hand me downs from my father.....AKG C414 EB TASCAM M-312B PODXT and an imac and I would be recording all of this through garageband. I have the mic hooked into line 1 phantom is on and just with those I have to crank the junk out of the volumes just to get the tiniest bit of noise. But when I plug in a shure SM53 mic it seems to be working just fine....am I dealing with a broken AKG? Or am I just a complete idiot that doesn't know anything about mixers and the stuff I have. I am origianlly a guitarist and can record guitars like no ones business. So HELP ME PLEASE!!!!

 

[adicreed]

bump.......................

 

[leddy]

It's possible the mic is bad. It's also possible the phantom power is not working properly. Borrow another condenser mic and see if it works, or better yet get a volt meter and check the input. If there is phantom power, it's the mic. If there is no phantom power, it's the phantom power...er lack of it.

 

[dementedchord]

if you have a meter there should be 48v between pins 2+3 and pin 1...