Monday, March 27, 2017

How to connect non-USB professional studio microphones to your PC

Buying a dedicated microphone for your PC is a great investment to enhance the audio recorded for streaming, videos, gaming, communication, and podcasts. Here's how you can hook it up to your PC.

As is the case with microphones, they produce analog signals that needs to be converted into digital format for your PC to handle. To achieve this, we'll need a few extra things to ensure the microphone is able to connect to the PC and you (and others) will be able to hear recorded sound input. Here's a quick shopping list:

  • XLR cables.
  • Pre-amp mixer.
  • Analog-to-digital converter.
  • Phantom power.

Audio Interfaces

Audio interfaces are expensive solutions that handle everything we need for a microphone to PC connection to be established. They can also support more than one microphone and are an ideal investment if you're looking to setup a studio or have more than one person live at any given time. They're generally in rack format to allow for easy assembly in a server case.

If you have the money to splash out on an audio interface, it's recommended you do so for an optimal experience. It's also generally recommended to steer clear of cheap options. $150-200 is considered to be the minimum for good audio quality. Here are a few examples:



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