
austinm08
the pigeon knows the way.
This is what I bought today:
-Shure SM57 mic
-6ft "XLR fem-XLR male" microphone cord (brand is Rapco Intl.)
-MIT-435 Mic Transformer, XLR Female LO-Z to 1/4" Male HI-Z (brand is Hosa)
page: http://www.hosatech.com/hosa/products/mit_transformers.html
-Mono 1/4" Female to Mono 3.5mm (1/8") Male (brand is Hosa)
page: http://www.hosatech.com/hosa/products/GMP-113.html
Now, I tried plugging this straight into the sound card, into the pink one with the pic of a mic by it.
I can't get the computer to recognize it, because in the control panel under the hardware it's nowhere to be found, and I tried recording but nothing was picked up.
My question is, is there something I'm missing? Do I need some kind of mixer? Or something that can take my mic and put it into the computer through USB (which I don't want to go that route, because I heard USB is slow and can't transfer the data quickly enough) or PCI?
-Shure SM57 mic
-6ft "XLR fem-XLR male" microphone cord (brand is Rapco Intl.)
-MIT-435 Mic Transformer, XLR Female LO-Z to 1/4" Male HI-Z (brand is Hosa)
page: http://www.hosatech.com/hosa/products/mit_transformers.html
-Mono 1/4" Female to Mono 3.5mm (1/8") Male (brand is Hosa)
page: http://www.hosatech.com/hosa/products/GMP-113.html
Now, I tried plugging this straight into the sound card, into the pink one with the pic of a mic by it.
I can't get the computer to recognize it, because in the control panel under the hardware it's nowhere to be found, and I tried recording but nothing was picked up.
My question is, is there something I'm missing? Do I need some kind of mixer? Or something that can take my mic and put it into the computer through USB (which I don't want to go that route, because I heard USB is slow and can't transfer the data quickly enough) or PCI?