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Recording one guitar and one mic


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I've been recording by setting a laptop in the room and using its built-in microphone -- not very good. My guitar runs into the POD then into a decent home stereo via a small Rolls mixer.  The vocal microphone runs into the Rolls, then into the stereo system and out into good speakers.      How are some of you accomplishing this when  you just want a quick simple track to share with a band mate?  I don't plan on doing any post-recording mixing/polishing.  I do have a spare xlr mic that could be used.

 

Thinking about one of these so I can avoid the laptop's internal mic:   

Blue Microphones Icicle XLR to USB Mic Converter/Mic Preamp

 

I've wanted the room ambience in the vocal portion of the recording but if set up direct I suppose reverb could be added either in the POD or in Audacity.

 

 

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Ok created a new patch with input 1 Guitar and input 2 mic with xlr mic plugged into the 500x.  USB to laptop into audacity.  I was getting signals from both guitar and mic into audacity but couldn't see how to boost the mic level which was very low. ?

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There's a mic volume control on the back of the HD500x that has quite a bit of gain for the XLR input. Be sure to turn it up. Also, if your mic needs phantom power then you're out of luck as the XLR connector on the HD500x does not provide that.

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no phantom power needed.  I'll check that xlr gain control, thanks.  I'm assuming that setting input 2 to mic is what I want.  Creating a separate patch for this since normally I use guitar on input 1 and variax on input 2 as the global option for better signal ( no actual variax ).

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