Lord, Please Somebody Help ASAP (XLR, CONDENSOR MIC, SOUNDCARD)

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I purchased a Marshall MXL 2003 Condensor Mic, With XLR Female (one end) and Male (other end) cord, along with a Rolls PB223 Dual Phantom Power Adapter.

I plugged the mic into the XLR cord, then plugged the XLR cord into the Power Supply's Mic Input slot. From there I plugged (this gets tricky) a Adaptor (XLR female going direct into the box, 1/4 male coming out of the box) into the power supply's Output slot.
From the 1/4 male end, i connected a 1/4 female end, which funneled down and adapted to a 1/8 inch cord....

I then plugged the 1/8 inch cord into my soundcard... I've tryed different arrangements, I've tryed plugging the 1/8 inch into the Line-In, Mic, and even speaker slots... I recieved some success when I plugged the 1/4 inch male end into my karoke machine's 1/4 inch female end... Just to test if the mic worked, It did...

I cant get this to work, somebody please... I spent all my money and now I'm losing my mind. I've been to radio shack 100 times(haha) today switching cables and adaptors... trying stereo, mono, everything.

Please somebody help!
 
if the rolls is just a phantom power supply then thats your prob.

a microphone puts out a very tiny signal and needs a preamplifier to boost it to line level.

the "line in" on your soundcard is where you want to plug in.

BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MIC PREAMP!!!!!

mic preamps usually have phantom power. what exactly is this rolls thing you have?
 
the Rolls Dual Phatom Power Adapter PB223

Bought yesterday from Zzounds.com

the mic is powered by the phantom box because if i plug into my karoke machine, or my home stereo (both 1/4 inch plugs) i can hear myself in the mic beautifully...

but when i adapt to 1/8 inch and plug into sound card i hear nothing. I've messed with the windows settings, mixer settings, computer settings. everything
 
of course the karaoke machine accepts mic level signals.

your stereo has a mic input?

if your soundcard has a mic input then that should work.


trust me on this you got the wrong rolls. you could have gotten the minimic preamp with phantom power.

there are many mic preamps available with phantom power and your setup requires a mic preamp to get decent sound out of your mic anyway.
 
That's what I don't understand, my cheap little computer mic works fine in the mic-in slot... I dont know what the problem is.
 
If everything if fuctioning properly it should work on the mic input of your sound card. Open up the windows mixer and make sure the mic input is turned on.
 
Ditto... The "mic-in" on the soundcard is only for use with those plastic computer mics... and I wouldn't even recommend leaving your plastic computer mic plugged into that port, because if you have your Windows settings configured wrong, the mic-in can end up conflicting with the "Line In".

When I started recording I used my on-board sound and here's all I had to do.

Mic > Mixer (with built in pre's and phantom power) > 1/4" to 1/8" adapter > "Line-in" on the On-Board sound.

I got some pretty decent recordings from one of my mobo's on-board sound... but you need more than just power, you need signal amplification. (the pre's)

WATYF
 
sorry rabiduz,

but everyone here is right. The phantom power is needed because it is a condenser mic, a dynamic mic would not need phantom power. But BOTH types of mics are going to need a mic pre. The microphone input on soundcards acts as a cheap mic pre, but it will sound terrible if you get much at all. You should be running the mic into the phantom power then into a mic preamp then into the line input of your soundcard. You can hear yourself on your stereo an karaoke machine because they have built in preamps.

you're going to need either a mic preamp with phantom power or the box you already have as well as a microphone preamp

josh
 
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