Years ago I bought a two channel tube mic pre-amp by ART from a friend of mine who was an audio engineer. I lost touch with them to get help. I wanted to use it to make my own vocal recordings with Audacity. But I can't find a tutorial on them, and I don't know if I should plug it into the back where a tall skinny standard Logitech type mic would go or if it should be plugged in the front. When I plug it in the back I get tons of static. I got static with the Logitech. Not sure if I should scrap it and go by a new mic or if I should try to use the pre-amp. I was told it was expensive but I don't know how to use it. I even went to ARTS site and they don't have the model listed -
Where do I plug it in?
What are the standard settings? (it says High Z input, Input, Gain, Phantom, Phase, etc?)
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using 2 channel tube mic amp w/Audacity
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Re: using 2 channel tube mic amp w/Audacity
You're going to have to get seriously closer than that. That's not even enough to wild guess at. What is the model number of the amplifier? What's your computer -- exactly? Model numbers.
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Re: using 2 channel tube mic amp w/Audacity
My computer is a Dell 8400 - and we had hooked the amp up to it before but I just don't remember how to do it, etc w/Audacity. We were using Cubebase but I don't want to learn that program looks too complex. -kozikowski wrote:You're going to have to get seriously closer than that. That's not even enough to wild guess at. What is the model number of the amplifier? What's your computer -- exactly? Model numbers.
Koz
The model for the amp is... on the back it says Type 10 CE - near the serial # but there is no other info on it except
Dual MP
Two Channel Tube Microphone Preamplifier
ART Applied Research & Tech
It has two outlined channels on the box with small light ups -
Channel 1 and Channel 2.
I thought about just trying a new generic mic to see if that will work .But static is on my cheap Logitech AND on this amp. I got it to record in Audacity but both are inaudible practically due to the static. I blew the dust away and did the suggestions for reducing static, etc. A-