Please help me - xlr-usb

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HEy, I got an audioline XLR to USB cable and its not recording. There is no sound being picked up by the computer. It is installed and the device is showing up in the system sounds-recording devices section but it aint detecting noise that im puttin into the mic from my bum. All the sound settings are turned on correctly. Im using a shure sv100 with it. It is a dynamic microphone. The manual said its supposed to work but it doesnt. Can anyone guess why? Is it too crappy of a microphone? The cable says it is for dynamic microphones only. My life depends on this working today. Please help me before I kill myself
 
oi it records now but its like super quiet. you have to yell
 
Sounds like the microphone has decided that you're not worth recording. It happens some times when people point them at their arses - they feel that they were constructed for nobler purposes and just refuse to work. Never mind, you can always try a career in comedy.:thumbs up:
 
We'd have to have more details of your "XLR to USB cable" but I'm pretty suspicious of the concept.

It wouldn't be just an adaptor cable--your mic is an analogue device and what your USB connector feeding to the computer is digital. Therefore, built in somewhere is an A to D converter, probably not a very good one. However, there's an extra issue: the output of a dynamic mic is very low level and, on a normal system, would run through a device called a "microphone pre amplifier" which raises the levels coming from your mic by between 40 and 60dB. Maybe your cable is trying to do this too, but probably not doing a very good job of it.

Seriously, your problem isn't just a cheap mic. It's the mix of a cheap mic and trying to use a con-artist cable version of the Audio Interface you really need.
 
If your "xlr to usb cable" doesn't have a gain control, it is a useless piece of junk. If it does, turn up the gain.

In all seriousness, you need a proper audio interface, not some cheap cable.
 
Have no idea if this will work with a USB mic, but guess it's using Windows crap to run it and not ASIO drivers.
(this does work for a dynamic mic plugged into a 'mic' soundcard input on a computer)

 
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