rob aylestone
Moderator
A poor sound means nothing at all! There is a guy at the moment who has a noise problem, but when he posted the clip - it's not noise. Audio has a very limited vocabulary. everyone is trying to help, but you are making us respond with an arm tied behind our backs.
You said weak, now it's poor. It really is like going to the doctor and saying I feel ill, what is wrong with me. The doc asks if you have a headache, or pains in your legs, or shortness of breath and you say no - you feel ill. You do not have to be a millionaire to buy a spare XLR cable, but if you unscrew the collars at the end you could look inside. Maybe one of the conductors is not connected, maybe a strand of wire is shorting it out? That's the kinds of thing you can do.
[quite]am getting a very poor sound when I record a poor sound is a poor sound all my friends said that my voice sounds poor[/quote]
Are your friends saying that what you are recording sounds bad, and does not sound like you, or are they saying that the mics is capturing your voice in a non-flattering way? Maybe it's in the wrong place, or you are too close or too far away - maybe you have a strange singing technique that needs a more flattering mic? Seriously! Some people need a particular mic to sound like them - their voice just sounds wrong on a different mic. If you post a short clip, we would know the kind of poor you are experiencing. It might be a fault, but it is far more likely that you will go to the music shop, they will plug it up, go "one,two" and declare the mics and preamp perfect. Faults are really rare. A clip would let any of us recognise the usual problems. If you aren't willing to do this - we are having to guess what you are hearing. Expressing sound in words is so hard. If you don't want to put the clip up publicly, send it to me as a direct message and I will respond off forum if it helps.
We are not being awkward, we are trying to help, but we need a bit of help from you. 20 seconds of speaking or singing would do. We could spot distortion, noise, hiss, poor placement and yes, real faults.
You said weak, now it's poor. It really is like going to the doctor and saying I feel ill, what is wrong with me. The doc asks if you have a headache, or pains in your legs, or shortness of breath and you say no - you feel ill. You do not have to be a millionaire to buy a spare XLR cable, but if you unscrew the collars at the end you could look inside. Maybe one of the conductors is not connected, maybe a strand of wire is shorting it out? That's the kinds of thing you can do.
[quite]am getting a very poor sound when I record a poor sound is a poor sound all my friends said that my voice sounds poor[/quote]
Are your friends saying that what you are recording sounds bad, and does not sound like you, or are they saying that the mics is capturing your voice in a non-flattering way? Maybe it's in the wrong place, or you are too close or too far away - maybe you have a strange singing technique that needs a more flattering mic? Seriously! Some people need a particular mic to sound like them - their voice just sounds wrong on a different mic. If you post a short clip, we would know the kind of poor you are experiencing. It might be a fault, but it is far more likely that you will go to the music shop, they will plug it up, go "one,two" and declare the mics and preamp perfect. Faults are really rare. A clip would let any of us recognise the usual problems. If you aren't willing to do this - we are having to guess what you are hearing. Expressing sound in words is so hard. If you don't want to put the clip up publicly, send it to me as a direct message and I will respond off forum if it helps.
We are not being awkward, we are trying to help, but we need a bit of help from you. 20 seconds of speaking or singing would do. We could spot distortion, noise, hiss, poor placement and yes, real faults.
