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MXL.009 USB Microphone for Audio Capture into Premiere Pro?
Hi All,
We’re thinking about buying a MXL USB.009 microphone to use in creating narrated slideshows etc.
Has anyone had any experience using that model to capture sound into Premiere Pro? (Or that make if not that particular model?)
Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
:)Ben
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7 Replies
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I dont like USB mics for two reasons, you are stuck with the USB part, and two they are often low end mics.
What I would recommend is the CEntrance Mic port pro. This will provide USB connection to any Mic for a 150 bucks. The added advantage, a headphone jack, so that you don’t have to listen to delayed audio after Premier processes it, which can be a deal killer, and with control knobs for both input and headphone. (Actually just saw that this mic has a headphone jack as well, take this out of the list …).
Anyway, it really gives you options in the future, if you do a lot of voice over, it may be worth investing in a nicer mic (Great deals on TLM 103’s on eBay right now…)
And you can plug any XLR mic into it. Heck you can plug it in the output of anything that uses an XLR connection.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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The MXL009 is not exactly a cheap mic($400), I personally don’t use one as I use firewire for multi-chnl input, but I do use other MXL condenser mics for instrument pickup, and stereo pairs for recording, haven’t had any problems with them.
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Thanks for the responses:)!
:)Ben
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I bought a Blue Icicle which is supposed to do the same things as the CEntrance Mic port pro. I can get the computer (PC Vista) to read it and it shows up in Premier Pro cs4 but the I cannot get the audio mixer to enable that mic. WHat do you think?
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Is it selected in the audio hardware preferences as an input?
Do they have an additional driver availlable?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
There is no driver available but again it is showing up on the computer and I can hear the sound outside of Premier Pro. Yes it is selected in the audio hardware preferences as an input?
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Reread your post… So you can’t control the input level ?
We can’t either… The CEntrance has an input level control knob so that’s not an issue, not sure if the Blue Icicle has one.
I think the input level is either on or off because it is already in digital format and Premiere is not able to control it on the fly, just like you can’t control the volume coming in from a digital deck.
I think your only solution would be to get a small mixer in line and use the Blue Icicle on the output.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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