Cyrilix
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So, long story short is that I'm a newb, and wanted to toy around with a condenser microphone for general purpose PC usage, so I bought the Audio-Technica AT2020. The box arrived today.
1 - There's no desktop stand, so I'll have to buy one.
2 - The connector on the microphone is XLR. My sound card takes 1/8" as input.
2 is what I'm worried about. How do I cheaply (preferably around $50 or less) connect a microphone to the PC? I've seen a few solutions so far... one involves using a preamp, and things get complicated. I don't really want to go down that path. Another solution uses an XLR to USB cable (LightSnake STUSBXLR10) which seems to have a preamp inside the cable, and you just hook it up to USB. Quite simple, for around $40.
How about an XLR to microphone in cable (microphone in connection is on my HT Omega Striker 7.1 soundcard)? I've heard some stuff about phantom power (don't really know what it is) but it seems to complicate things.
So to all you guys that are pretty good with microphone connections, what's my best option (for cheap)?
Thanks.
1 - There's no desktop stand, so I'll have to buy one.
2 - The connector on the microphone is XLR. My sound card takes 1/8" as input.
2 is what I'm worried about. How do I cheaply (preferably around $50 or less) connect a microphone to the PC? I've seen a few solutions so far... one involves using a preamp, and things get complicated. I don't really want to go down that path. Another solution uses an XLR to USB cable (LightSnake STUSBXLR10) which seems to have a preamp inside the cable, and you just hook it up to USB. Quite simple, for around $40.
How about an XLR to microphone in cable (microphone in connection is on my HT Omega Striker 7.1 soundcard)? I've heard some stuff about phantom power (don't really know what it is) but it seems to complicate things.
So to all you guys that are pretty good with microphone connections, what's my best option (for cheap)?
Thanks.