[LAU] Mic for accoustic (bass) guitar

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:19:37PM -0500, jonetsu wrote:
> Le Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:51:02 +0000,
> Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote :
> 
> > Me too. An 1010LT has two mic inputs. So what's the point of using
> > the DI box ? 
> 
> Right.  This calls for double-check since I wired that a few years
> ago ;-)  Turns out the mic goes directly in the 10101LT and the DI box
> is used for the acoustic bass guitar built-in pick-up output.  The kind
> of pick-up with bass, treble, mid controls, powered with a 9v battery.
> Sorry for the misleading description I gave previously ;-)

There's still something not OK here. An M-audio Pulsar mic requires
phantom power (30..50V). The 1010LT does *not* provide phantom power.
So how is this supposed to work ? Maybe you could provide some really
correct information, and spare us having to waste time by trying to
understands things that don't make sense, downloading specs, etc.

Anyway, a more expensive mic is not going to help if you can't obtain
good results with this one. Others may sound a bit different, but you
can probably get the same with a good parametric EQ. Moving your mic
by 10 cm will make a bigger difference than what exists between any
two decent studio mics.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

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