[LAU] General Audio question - soft recording and bad SNR?

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:14:36AM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 09:17:39AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> 
> > The maximum volume I get from my Shure SM75 seems very low. The result
> > of this is when I normalize I get fairly significant background hum.
> 
> If this is really hum - a constant low frequency drone like sound -
> then the first thing to check is the cable. 
> 
> Or is it noise - a hissy sound with no particular frequency ?
> The UA25 is not really low noise, but for speaking close to the
> mic it should be perfectly OK. 
> 
> Could you make a short (30 second or so) example available
> somewhere ? 

In a later post I see you have an XLR to TRS cable. This will not
work well as the TRS input on the UA25 is attenuated before is goes
into the preamp. You really need an XLR to XLR cable.

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