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by mmorrison
Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:59 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Exporting to MP3 (really, now it's about pre-amps etc)

cyrano, Thanks for your thoughts. The RME Babyface Pro looks like a sweet unit. Unfortunately way out of our price range, even used. Audient ID22 looks decent too, but same issue with price. I understand clean sound vs whatever color the GAP Pre-73 Jr adds. If I were setting up a recording studio fo...
by mmorrison
Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:20 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Exporting to MP3

cyrano, that was my leaning as well. The *real* pre-amp, along with maybe the Scarlet Solo USB audio interface to connect it to the computer (a Mac).

M.
by mmorrison
Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:14 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Exporting to MP3

Gah. I thought I had this wrapped up. Now my friend /client says her other tech advisor told her all she needed was a Cloudlifter unit. I have my doubts.

Anyone have an opinion about the Cloudlifter signal booster?

TIA, M.
by mmorrison
Fri Jul 01, 2016 4:01 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Exporting to MP3

Koz said, "I have a really good idea why they do it. It's 'safe.' If they created a much higher volume sound work, you have the possibility of announcing too loud and creating overload. In short, that's when the digital audio system 'runs out of numbers' and starts creating very serious, obvious, pe...
by mmorrison
Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:50 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Exporting to MP3

"Overload, Volume and Noise on the same sound file. There are very definite, non-magic, plain numbers you have to hit. You can get any two....." I love it. I think that has to go on my "quotes" page.

M.
by mmorrison
Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:46 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Exporting to MP3

Well, after yesterday's session poking at various settings, I told my friend to get the Golden Age Pre-73 Jr pre-amp. We'll see if that fixes the signal level problem. Going by the specs, it ought to be sufficient. Will let you know the results when I've got that hooked up. (I'm sorry the MVi didn't...
by mmorrison
Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:31 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Re: Recording volume (was: Exporting to MP3)

Dear kozikowski, Just sat down to mess with this again. Plugged the USB cable into a USB port on the back of this Mac (instead of the USB port at the end of the keyboard, as suggested). Increased the gain as much as possible with the slider on the individual track we were working with. Still got tin...
by mmorrison
Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:41 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Exporting to MP3
Replies: 15
Views: 1374

Exporting to MP3

Dear Collective Wisdom, I'm troubleshooting for a friend who's in the process of setting up a home studio for voice actor work. The problem we're trying to solve is insufficient volume in the resulting MP3 after export. She has a Shure SM7B mic, plugged into a Shure MVi Digital Audio Interface (I mi...
by mmorrison
Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:49 am
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Pre-amp?
Replies: 2
Views: 558

Pre-amp?

Dear Collective Wisdom, I've got an MXL-DRK condenser microphone, which I've got plugged into the line-in port (no, not the headphone port, the one to the left of that) on my Mac PowerBook G4 running OSX 10.4.11. I'm getting a signal when I turn the mic on and speak into it, but the signal seems ver...