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curry2hot
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Hi ALL 
I've been writing and recording my own music for some time, using my friends equipment. I generally write the lyrics and perform the vocals, my friend does just about everything else.
I recently purchased Magix Music Maker just to tinker about and to try and compose songs, mixing etc, I realise it's probably not up there with the more professional of music making tools but it's giving me confidence to build songs from scratch, something that I've always relied on my friend to do in the past. The fun factor is excellent and I'm totally addicted to it at the moment
I purchased a Samson G-Track in order to get some vocals onto the arrangements. I sold it on ebay after two vocals. The 'static' or 'hiss' was too noticable, it sounded like an old tape deck when the vocals came in!
I have a newish, decent pc set up BUT I only have onboard sound 'Realtek Audio' and again I appreciate this isn't going to give me studio quality sound, however I want to record vocals without adding anything else or buying further equipment for my pc, I just want to be able to record vocals of a decent quality (without the hiss, static) that the Samson gave me. I can then take the finished song to my friend and do the whole thing again on his superior set up.
The Samson was a USB Mic. A little research shows that I can get a XLR to Jack converter that would then allow me to buy a more 'conventional' type of mic that would plug straight into my Mic in on the pc.
As stated before, I'm not looking to add anything else to my set up, please don't advise to buy further equipment, add a sound card, buy one of these things etc etc.
To my question: Which Mic would return 'decent' vocals using a XLR to Jack connector to plug straight into my pc....OR any other USB Mic's other than the Samson ?
Thanks for taking the time to read my (first) post and ANY help will be greatly received.
I've been writing and recording my own music for some time, using my friends equipment. I generally write the lyrics and perform the vocals, my friend does just about everything else.
I recently purchased Magix Music Maker just to tinker about and to try and compose songs, mixing etc, I realise it's probably not up there with the more professional of music making tools but it's giving me confidence to build songs from scratch, something that I've always relied on my friend to do in the past. The fun factor is excellent and I'm totally addicted to it at the moment
I purchased a Samson G-Track in order to get some vocals onto the arrangements. I sold it on ebay after two vocals. The 'static' or 'hiss' was too noticable, it sounded like an old tape deck when the vocals came in!
I have a newish, decent pc set up BUT I only have onboard sound 'Realtek Audio' and again I appreciate this isn't going to give me studio quality sound, however I want to record vocals without adding anything else or buying further equipment for my pc, I just want to be able to record vocals of a decent quality (without the hiss, static) that the Samson gave me. I can then take the finished song to my friend and do the whole thing again on his superior set up.
The Samson was a USB Mic. A little research shows that I can get a XLR to Jack converter that would then allow me to buy a more 'conventional' type of mic that would plug straight into my Mic in on the pc.
As stated before, I'm not looking to add anything else to my set up, please don't advise to buy further equipment, add a sound card, buy one of these things etc etc.
To my question: Which Mic would return 'decent' vocals using a XLR to Jack connector to plug straight into my pc....OR any other USB Mic's other than the Samson ?
Thanks for taking the time to read my (first) post and ANY help will be greatly received.
