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Title: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Reschke on May 12, 2010, 04:05:11 PM: I was talking with a buddy of mine today who does some weird things with his hardware and he told me he has a preamp hooked up to his headset microphone then that is hooked up to his sound card. I have no idea how that would work but perhaps someone else here who might be able to dumb it down could let us know.

Thanks
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Chalenge on May 12, 2010, 05:10:48 PM: Yes and he needs to feed the output of the preamp (or mixer) to the line-in of the audio card unless he is using USB inputs (which I knew to avoid).

Do you know which preamp and headset he is using? What is the problem he is having?
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: OOZ662 on May 12, 2010, 05:39:05 PM: I think he was starting a discussion, not saying there was a problem. :)

I've heard a few people over VOX using preamps (hardware and software) to change their voices around. One guy sounded like a Disney cartoon because he daughter had been fiddling with it and he hadn't realized. :lol
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Chalenge on May 12, 2010, 05:52:35 PM: Oh well I saw the 'weird things with his hardware' and thought he was saying there was a problem.
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Reschke on May 12, 2010, 11:58:45 PM: No problems this guy just does some freaky stuff from time to time. One time he tried to actually cool his entire setup in liquid nitrogen in the early days of overclocking the P3 processors...did I mention he was left a ton of money by his parents when they died while he was in college...so he actually doesn't work and only plays around.

Anyway I didn't really believe him and just wanted to see if anyone else has/had done it.
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Chalenge on May 13, 2010, 01:22:20 AM: Well it will be 'shocking' to listen to him on vox when he turns on the phantom power. :D

Seriously though I hope he read at least a little of the manual.
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Reschke on May 13, 2010, 07:43:25 AM: Ok what is the "Phantom power" I have read about it but don't understand what it means since I haven't found a reference to it that is clear enough to me to understand.
Title: Re: Anyone use a preamp with their headset mic setup?
Post by: Chalenge on May 13, 2010, 02:04:50 PM: If you use a broadcast quality mic like ham radio operators or studios use ( http://www.dxstore.com/pod.html ) you can use a mixer/preamp like the Behringers which add a 48V Phantom Power to the XLR line. Typically you would have to be a contortionist to plug in a 1/8" line to an XLR input so you dont really have to worry about it.