tymime wrote:How do I boost the volume of my mic without getting a ton of hiss?
You need to use a low noise, high gain microphone pre-amp.
The specification for the Lightsnake says:
* Signal Boost Gain: +20 dB
A typical condenser microphone will have a sensitivity of around 12 mV/Pa
The sensitivity of the EH-R1 is only 1.6 mV/Pa
This means that the output level of the EH-R1 ribbon microphone is going to be considerably less for a given sound level than for a typical condenser microphone. This in turn means that your microphone pre-amp needs to be able to cleanly boost the signal level much more for the ribbon microphone than it would for a typical condenser microphone.
One of the main limitations of cheap microphone pre-amps is that they can become rather noisy when the gain is turned up high.
The EH-R1 looks like a nice high quality microphone, but to get good performance from it, it needs to be paired up with a good high quality high gain, low noise microphone pre-amp.
(The ART pre-amp that I suggested earlier may in fact not have sufficient gain to work well with this microphone - for a low cost solution, it may be worth checking out Behringer products).
