To get you started, here's what I found works for me. You'll need to adjust these to find what's best for your voice by adjusting these while speaking and watching the meter in Audacity and playing back for quality. The mixer lets you adjust the gain, and adjust the treble and bass to reduce hiss or rumble, produces less electronic noise than the USB connection in the microphone and generally helps optimize the recording for your voice. Fortunately, the AT2005 supports that as well as USB and includes both cables (or at least it did at the time of this writing make sure that's still part of the package when you buy, or grab another decent XLR cable of whatever length you think will make sense). To connect to the mixer, you'll use a 3-prong XLR cable. To do better than just the AT2005 alone, you'll want to add a mixer. Out of stock? Check for alternates on our Optional Upgrades page. It's $20 less expensive and a better fit for a single narrator using a dynamic mic, but we haven't seen it in stock recently.) (If it's in stock at Amazon, we would instead recommend the $60 Behringer XENYX 302USB. Parts to buy: Behringer XENYX Q502USB + Audio-Technica AT2005 + Windscreen Mic + Mixer + your existing computer Better Option if quiet with no echo in your computer room.
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That means that Scribl can earn fees if you buy anything after following these links. TL DR: The Behringer Xenyx 302 USB is a useful bit of kit that comes with some decent software.Note that Scribl is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. This is particularly good if you are a beginner at this sort of thing and are only using free software. This negates the necessity for a decent software as Tracktion is pretty useful. This is not actually mentioned by thomann, but by going to Behringer's product page and registering your mixer's serial number, Behringer and Tracktion give you a licence for the software. It is a very versatile product, especially for its size and price and I recommend it to any person looking for more options whilst recording.Īs a side note, the product is made even better by the fact that it comes with a licence for Tracktion recording software. I can then record the whole live mix of our band through the PC.Īlternatively, this unit can be used for recording pod casts with it's microphone input or a guitar and microphone for a singer/songwriter. There is a headphone output which allows you to hear the mix and then I have the USB cable plugged into the computer.
The way that I use the Xenyx 302 USB is having my main mixer's RCA audio output connected to the LINE INPUT on the Xenyx. This unit is powered by USB, so can be plugged in to the included wall socket adapter and used as an input for speakers, but also can be powered straight from a computer by the USB, enabling you to input into the PC without having to have it plugged into the wall. I bought this product in order to output my mixer to a PC via USB.