[Ty Ford]

Hell Amanda and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Get an AT202USB mic, plug it in to the USB port of your computer, switch the computer audio control panel so it recognizes the mic, bring up the audio software and make sure the mic is selected for an input.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello John,

As I said before, a regular cable WON’T WORK.
You need on that’s wired to feed your mono mic to a stereo input.

as you have learned recently, adapters are noisy.

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[Ty Ford]

Well power isn’t the sole determining factor for signal survivability or range. A ot fo it has to do with receiver design. The Audio Ltd. 2020 and 2040 have 5OmW transmitters, but they have a range of 1000 yards. The secret is in the receiver.

In addition, the 2020 and 2040 are the best sounding wireless systems I have ever heard. I have two audio files on my server. One of me walking around with the 240 body mic on and one recording acoustic guitar down in my studio with the body mic. Amazing that wireless can sound this good.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Shaun and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

As has been expressed well here, wireless is a tricky beast. You can try moving the receivers closer to the transmitters, or doing research to find what frequencies may be better than the ones you choose.

I see Azden advertised in trade magazines, but the pros seem to like Lectro for a balance of solid performance and price. I still use two Audio Technica U 100 sets, although they have been discontinued.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Matt,

The Centrance MicPort Pro is a 96/24 with Phantom Powered and a good headphone jack.

I reviewed it for several magazines a few months back.

It’s shipping and it works.

https://centrance.com/products/mp/

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Dan and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Video blogging has pretty low-fi expectations, so you should be OK.

Some folks have tried gamer headset mics. Not a bad idea. Getting the mic close to the side of mouth is a good thing. I’m sure some of them have USB connections. I just don’t know of any specific make/models.

If I were going to do it today, I’d use one of my Countryman E6 mics and a MicportPro from Centrance. That a $400 high-quality solution that you’ll be able to use any mic with but I already have the E6.

MicportPro costs about $150. You could use other mics, of course.

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[Ty Ford]

You mean mic level outputs, right?

There are some wireless receivers that have line level outputs.

As to the specific problem here, I don’t know for sure. I have seen audio inputs with on-camera mics get over loaded in a noisy environment.

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[Ty Ford]

“You need to set the camera’s input to LINE when using the wireless microphone. If you don’t, you’ll overload the input with too strong of a signal. We have the Sennheiser ENG wireless kit and I noticed this exact problem.”

Careful Jordan. There are wireless mic receivers that are adjustable to mic level.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello John and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I haven’t seen these preamps before. I have seen the recorder. You’ll need a special cable from the preamp to the recorder to bridge the mono audio from the preamp to both channels of the recorder. The two preamps you show may be wired this way, or not.

Does the recorder offer power to run the preamps?

I’d say get the mic, special cable and recorder first and see how you like it. If you have problems try adding a preamp.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Tom,

Still no. Spend some time on the B&H audio site and get acquainted with the prices of things.

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