Recording Levels - Microphone - Cool Edit

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General advice is requested for neophyte.

I've purchased an AKG D230 (dynamic omni) microphone for interviews.
However, when attaching to a computer and recording, I'm not getting
the levels I am with a cheap Sony attachment.

I'm recording through a SoundMAX card to Cool Edit 2000 running on a
PC.

Any help available?

Regards,

Russell

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"Distracted" <cremmerson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> General advice is requested for neophyte.
>
> I've purchased an AKG D230 (dynamic omni) microphone for
> interviews. However, when attaching to a computer and
> recording, I'm not getting the levels I am with a cheap
Sony
> attachment.
>
> I'm recording through a SoundMAX card to Cool Edit 2000
> running on a PC.
>
> Any help available?

What you need for that AKG D230 is a mic preamp. One easy
way to get one (or more) is to get a small console. Small
consoles make nice front ends for doing audio on PCs because
they handle the mic preamp issue and the monitoring issue.

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Distracted <cremmerson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I've purchased an AKG D230 (dynamic omni) microphone for interviews.
>However, when attaching to a computer and recording, I'm not getting
>the levels I am with a cheap Sony attachment.
>
>I'm recording through a SoundMAX card to Cool Edit 2000 running on a
>PC.
>
>Any help available?

Yes. The cheap soundcards with unbalanced input don't have a lot of
gain. That's why typical "multimedia" microphones have outrageously
high output levels.

The easiest thing I would think would be to use something like the
Lavry computer interface box.
--scott

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