Connecting a Microphone in Pro Tools

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We are going to get ourselves ready to record some voice over. But, first thing we need to do is connect the microphone to the in box. I have an XLR cable which has a male and female end so the audio signal is going to go one way. I want to find out which end goes where. Let's take a look at our microphone our microphone has an input. Right there is our male end we take our female connector and plug it right in. Line up those three prongs. Take the other end of our cable string it on over to the back of the back of the end box. Now, the back of end box has two microphone inputs so we can record two mics. We are only going to use one. We are going to go into input 1 right now. It's important to remember that and we are going to connect the other end right there. Now, depending on the kind of microphone depends what you need to as far as the power requirements. This is a condenser microphone. It needs 48 volts in order for it to function. If you have a different type of microphone, like electric voice which is a common RE 20 or something like that. You don't need power it's a dynamic microphone. In this case the microphone is a condenser and need power and they tend to have a better sound quality as well. So, lets go in take a look at our in box and lets see where power control is. Right on the front here we have input one it's a 48 volt switch. We'll turn that on and this is our level control for that track. So once we get that power up and we have our 48 volts on we can actually start to see levels on the screen. Now, if I turn the level up a little bit we have more and more level. You can see my level right there. Another thing that is really important in this equation is I have a pop filter. This helps any wind that comes from popping p's and in our voice and avoids any glowing rumble. Just hold hand in front of face and go pie.. p..any p you will feel the wind blowing out of your hand put this in front and do the same thing. That's going to stop hitting the microphone and get big rumbling sound you don't need. So that's a real good thing as a pop filter. So were all set up here. We have our pop filter, mike stand and our connection and we are all powered up and ready to record.

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