I am new to this forum (first post)
I don't plan to to do any serious recording yet, but wanted something to play around with and experiment on. I purchased a second hand AKG C2000B. I am trying to run it through a Neewer 48v phantom power supply to a Lexicon Alpha that I have had laying around and in to my desktop running Windows 10 and Audacity. Now, I know that there are no current drivers for the Lexicon for Windows 10, but I downloaded the 8.1 drivers and things seem to work ok.
Anyway, here is my issue. Regardless of whether I have the phantom power supply on or off, I am getting the same signal from the mic into Audacity. And the signal seems strong, albeit very tinny. I was under the impression that if a condenser microphone didn't have power going to it, that it wouldn't work at all. This is not the case with my set up. To test it, I plugged the mic directly into the Alpha and I still got the same signal.
The other thing to note is that, even when I have the mic plugged into the power supply and the power supply into the audio interface, the mic input knob on the Alpha doesn't have any affect on the signal being recorded in Audacity.
I am not sure if the alpha drivers are the issue, but can someone help out this newb?
Thanks!
I don't plan to to do any serious recording yet, but wanted something to play around with and experiment on. I purchased a second hand AKG C2000B. I am trying to run it through a Neewer 48v phantom power supply to a Lexicon Alpha that I have had laying around and in to my desktop running Windows 10 and Audacity. Now, I know that there are no current drivers for the Lexicon for Windows 10, but I downloaded the 8.1 drivers and things seem to work ok.
Anyway, here is my issue. Regardless of whether I have the phantom power supply on or off, I am getting the same signal from the mic into Audacity. And the signal seems strong, albeit very tinny. I was under the impression that if a condenser microphone didn't have power going to it, that it wouldn't work at all. This is not the case with my set up. To test it, I plugged the mic directly into the Alpha and I still got the same signal.
The other thing to note is that, even when I have the mic plugged into the power supply and the power supply into the audio interface, the mic input knob on the Alpha doesn't have any affect on the signal being recorded in Audacity.
I am not sure if the alpha drivers are the issue, but can someone help out this newb?
Thanks!