Studio Monitor Headphone
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Studio Monitor Headphone
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Recording Studio Mystery?
So I recently got my Tascam DP-02 CF recording studio with an SM58 mic, a Monster Standard 100 mic cable, and basic studio monitoring headphones. After a day or two of reading through manuals and messing with things, I finally got to record. The problem is, I have to turn all of my levels WAY up in order to hear anything. This may seem like a trivial matter, but when I get the tracks I've recorded onto Audacity, I need to amplify everything precisely in order to get it back to the way I wanted it originally, which gets very tiring/frustrating, especially since I know it shouldn't be like this. I've checked my input levels and my faders. I know it's not my headphones because it's happening on my computer too. Everything seems to be connected well. I know I'm not going deaf. Does anyone have an idea of what's happening here?
It seems to me that you are having a "gain staging " problem.
First, are you using the right microphone to record your source material? I keep about 40 microphones in my closet because no one microphone will do the trick. A SM58, a live performance microphone, isn't normally used in the studio because it doesn't "hear" all that well. You'll also notice that when you do see someone use it in concert that the singer has the microphone literally touching their lips. That is what the 58 was made for.
The close cousin of the SM58 is the SM57 which is used quite a bit in the studio, usually for snare and guitar cabinets. For guitars, I put that microphone about 1/2 inch away from the speaker and about the same distance for a snare. Again, a microphone like the 58 expects a very loud source.
Finally, I suspect that the mic pre's in the Tascam DP-02 CF are not that great. With a street price of only $299.00 (Sweetwater Music) you really can't expect that much. To put it in perspective, my "recorder" cost me 30k and it doesn't have mic pre' or any eq's - those cost tens of thousands more. A good vocal mic? Two to five thousand dollars each.
I would start by getting an inexpensive condenser microphone. The CAD E100 or the Rode NT 1000 are really good starting points. Sweetwater sells the CAD E-100 for only $249 - a bargain really and the NT 1000 for $329. Those are the absolute cheapest usable microphones I can think of but they have the output necessary to get your signals up.
Save that SM58 for your live shows.
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