I recently bought a new microphone(AT-2020) to record my voice. The first time I used it with fraps, it ruined my audio and I had to scrap the videos. I thought it might be fraps so I recorded the audio only with audacity. The sound was still kind of distorted so I did a side by side test in audacity for my old and new mic... The results were kind of annoying. My $60 pair of PX21 turtle beaches sounded better than the $140 brand new AT-2020. Can anyone tell me how that's even possible?
New mic problems
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Sergeant Fox
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I would guess that it's probably defective since Audio-Technica makes pretty high quality equipment and i doubt a turtle beach microphone would sound better. Either that or it could be the usb cable/usb port that is causing the problem I might try another cable and plugging it into different ports and see if that's the culprit. If that doesn't work I would get is replaced and see how that goes.
Wrice4
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I agree with Fox, but did you buy the XLR or USB version? I have the XLR version, with a mixer, and you can fine tune it so well.
Tarmack
Rhetorical Porcupine
Please provide additional detail of the problem. Are we talking a heavy amount of distortion in the audio, is it clipping in Audacity, is it background noise causing problems?
The vast majority of problems that occur with a new mic, even more so with condensers is that they're running too hot. Meaning, turn the input volume down on everything first. In windows dump the input volume slider. If you have anything else augmenting the volume, dump that down as well. Start recording at a low volume in Audacity, and use the normalize function to bring the volume up. Check and see if it sounds good. If it does, then up the volume sliders a bit and do it again.
Remember, you're dealing with professional audio gear now. It's extremely unlikely that a proper professional mic will just automatically sound it's best at the same settings as a Turtle Beach headset.
The vast majority of problems that occur with a new mic, even more so with condensers is that they're running too hot. Meaning, turn the input volume down on everything first. In windows dump the input volume slider. If you have anything else augmenting the volume, dump that down as well. Start recording at a low volume in Audacity, and use the normalize function to bring the volume up. Check and see if it sounds good. If it does, then up the volume sliders a bit and do it again.
Remember, you're dealing with professional audio gear now. It's extremely unlikely that a proper professional mic will just automatically sound it's best at the same settings as a Turtle Beach headset.