How to Use Microphones When Audio Recording

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On behalf of Expert Village, Kurt Glaser, KGB Studios, Seattle. Let's continue now with our sessions on "How to Use a Two Track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder". Alright, now what we're going to do is we need to get this microphone plugged into this deck here. Now the inputs, as we talked about on our previous session, are down here along the bottom. And we have the adjustments for the microphone on the outside of these volume controls over on the left hand side. So we have the microphones here, and we'll take our little microphone with our adapter, we'll plug it into the channel that we have to select right here, and that will give us the microphone connector. And then of course we want to adjust the corresponding microphone connector, which is over here, this guy here, let me show you that. We're using the left input for the vocal for the microphone here for our first of two stereo tracks. Okay, if we want to record mono, that's what we want to do. We want to use just one track, and then we want to also enable this particular left record switch and we're going to be monitoring that with our headphones here. But I'm going to actually set in the secondary microphone, so we're going to plug this guy in right here, we've got to plug in our quarter inch to the right side, and adjust, of course. Now what we're going to do, in a moment, we're going to take a look at these VU meters, the volume unit meters, to get an idea of what that looks like. We're going to also monitor that as well, and we're going to be recording in that. So now we have got both the inputs set, and we've got the levels ready. We're now ready to balance the two on the VU meters and actually get recording in an audio fashion, which we'll do right now. And we're definitely going to have to plug in our headphones and this is the headphone jack right here, so we're going to plug our headphones in, simple as that. Now we've got our monitoring capability, and we have both microphones, we're ready to record. So let's try that next.

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