Mic in too quiet

Voxx · 2022-07-20T00:04:30.318Z

I was trying record my voice to Ableton via Digitakt, but it’s super quiet.
I am using a cheapo sennheiser 835e. When I sample with it, it’s loud and clear.
I clicked around setting on usb config, recorder, but to no avail.
Would adding a mic booster, something like Klark Teknik (just googled it) solve the problem?
Thanks.

chiasticon · 2022-07-20T00:33:13.367Z

you need a pre-amp. DT is designed to receive a line level signal, which is about 1000 times hotter than a mic level signal.

Voxx · 2022-07-20T00:44:48.641Z

Ah Ok. I wanted to skip the audio card or preamp, see if I can just hook it up and go.
Thanks.

Kegeratorz · 2022-07-20T00:56:41.349Z

Field recorder with XLR in can do the job too. Great to have really.

Voxx:

Would adding a mic booster, something like Klark Teknik

These may need external phantom power to work correctly.

Voxx · 2022-07-20T01:03:44.074Z

Thanks I am checking it out. I was looking for a low budget way to do it, hence the booster.

chiasticon · 2022-07-20T01:08:45.998Z

a small mixer is a great utility to have around in general, and would solve this problem.

Kegeratorz · 2022-07-20T01:09:56.618Z

You can never go wrong with a mixer!

Bloop · 2022-07-20T01:26:38.985Z

Sampled audio in DT gets automatically normalised.

You could increase gain or normalise after it hits ableton, but as other have mentioned, a preamp/mixer before DT would be more ideal

Voxx · 2022-07-20T01:34:39.097Z

Yup have a tiny mixer, just dumbly lost the adopter. It’s somewhere in the box…haha.

Voxx · 2022-07-20T01:40:07.795Z

I didn’t know the normalizing part, cool, thanks-