Mic for Beginner Vocals+Piano Recording to MacBook

[Owen Gibbins]

It sounds like you have a levels problem, not a hardware problem. What you have is perfect for recording vocals. I personally love the sounds of an SM58 for vocals.

You should go to a garageband forum to ask about selecting inputs, adjusting the levels etc.

[Owen Gibbins]

Also things to consider:

Faulty cable (doubt it)
Drivers (possible)
Obvious but you never know: You are cranking the gain controls etc on the M-Audio Pre?
Mic broke (doubt it)

Plug headphones into the front of the pre and see if it is still quiet after tweaking the gain knobs etc while talking into the mic.

You don’t need phantom power for an SM58

[Satpal Chander]

Hi Folks,
Thanks for the super quick replies. I will head over the garageband forum and pose the question on there.
In the mean time I will also check the level using headphones whilst playing with the gain.

Was having a play last night i couldn’t believe how loud the internal mic on the mbp recorded audio, compared to the sm58 threw preusb.

Thanks Again
Satpal