New interface + mic, extremely low volume

[sLeMtheLoaner]

There, I went to the store and it turned out that the microphone was faulty. I got a new one and everything is working as expected now! Thank you all for the great advice you've given. If I ever run into hardware problems in the future, I have a neat little toolbox of different things to look for when troubleshooting.

 

[Chili]

There, I went to the store and it turned out that the microphone was faulty. I got a new one and everything is working as expected now! Thank you all for the great advice you've given. If I ever run into hardware problems in the future, I have a neat little toolbox of different things to look for when troubleshooting.

Cool. Very low chance of a mnic being bad, but there ya go. And remember, don't plug a mic in when the phantom power is on!!!!

 

[c7sus]

There, I went to the store and it turned out that the microphone was faulty. I got a new one and everything is working as expected now! Thank you all for the great advice you've given. If I ever run into hardware problems in the future, I have a neat little toolbox of different things to look for when troubleshooting.

Glad it worked out.

 

[sLeMtheLoaner]

Cool. Very low chance of a mnic being bad, but there ya go. And remember, don't plug a mic in when the phantom power is on!!!!

Hehe, yeah, the support person said so as well. I didn't know about the phantom power thing though, but luckily I saw your first post about it before I had accidentally connected it with the PP on.

 

[2infamouz]

There, I went to the store and it turned out that the microphone was faulty. I got a new one and everything is working as expected now! Thank you all for the great advice you've given. If I ever run into hardware problems in the future, I have a neat little toolbox of different things to look for when troubleshooting.

Nice you got it figured out. Hopefully all the guesses in this thread at least brought some new info to you about the crazy world of recording

 

[ecc83]

"And remember, don't plug a mic in when the phantom power is on!!!! "

Good practice but not because of any danger to the mic. The current flow as the mic draws power will cause a big transient pulse to be sent thru the audio path and if the controls are open this will result in a loud pop in the monitors and a headache in cans, not nice.

My AKG Perception 150's and my Sontronics STC-2 have been "hot swopped" many times. Phantom power rarely causes any harm to those devices expecting it, as I said before it is kit that is NOT proofed to 48volts that can suffer.....In any event, it is perfectly possible to make mics and pres 48V hardened and therefore we have every right to expect them to be so.....***t'Appen!

Dave.

 

[Chili]

I read the manuals for the 2i4 and AKG mic earlier today and couldn't find any warning about plugging a mic in with phantom power on. I thought that was strange.

My understanding is that if the two hot wires of an XLR cable weren't connected at precisely the same time, there is a good chance of biasing the foil and causing it to flex all the way to one side and damaging it. Is that not true?

 

[ecc83]

I read the manuals for the 2i4 and AKG mic earlier today and couldn't find any warning about plugging a mic in with phantom power on. I thought that was strange.

My understanding is that if the two hot wires of an XLR cable weren't connected at precisely the same time, there is a good chance of biasing the foil and causing it to flex all the way to one side and damaging it. Is that not true?

I did in fact find the .pdf for the AKG p170 and the instruction is indeed " Plug mic into XLR cable THEN switch on phantom power" But they are not at all arsey about it and there are no dire warnings.

It is the shield pin 1 that mates first in an XLR (for the obvious reason!) pins 2 and 3 are of equal length.
Have to go to work now. Pick this up later.

Dave.