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You may be experiencing part of the HDMI Quality Assurance (copy protection) service. When you watch a movie, it's made to go exclusively up the HDMI cable to the display device and make no stops along the way. Branches and other services are locked out. However, you may not need that just to record...

That + - thing is a thumbwheel and controls the volume of your microphone. Rub/Push toward + to get louder. The little switch on the side controls whether or not the Phantom Power is active (leave off).

Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

Koz

And that's precisely what I was doing. The mixer Show was going to the Mac on the left Stereo Line-In and recorded perfectly in Audacity. Both of these Macs have high-level stereo connections, both directions (no Mic-In, however). The mixer has an Effects Send, which is an independent output connect...

I think we're hitting it. Do you have one of these? http://hosatech.com/press-release/hosa-introduces-tracklink-microphone-usb-interface/ With a little fat pod with lights and controls on it (attached)? That control pod has a blue light that signifies the computer connection is good and it will flas...

You shouldn't be getting such horrible results.

Exactly correct. Something you're doing is giving unexpected results.
Koz

You don't need to know what Phantom Power is, just that your microphone does not need it and you should have it turned off.
Koz

he has ear buds plugged-in.

Those are photographically convenient, not sonically desirable.
Koz

Has your SM58 worked anywhere else? The SM58 is a bulletproof, good quality "rock band" microphone. But it's not impossible to kill one. See: black tape on mine. If you do manage to kill the case (I do not want to know how they did that) the shield will go open and sound like this: http:/...

Do you get the flashing blue activity light when you speak with the volume control turned up? A Shure SM58 should certainly be able to trip a recording indicator. Has your SM58 worked anywhere else? Windows has the ability to change the volume of USB connections. Is the connection turned up in Windo...