You can use regular mics as well on this mixer too, as long as they have either a stereo jack or XLR connection. On your mic, you will need a male XLR jack to connect to the mixer. It comes with Steinberger’s Cubase LE for Mac/PC and it has 4 female XLR ports and lots of stereo jack ports, including a headphone port. It is plug and play, meaning that it installs very easily and if you follow the instructions of the non technical manual, it is set up in minutes. You can find this device for as low $165- $200 USD and it is very easy to operate. Alesis Multimix 8 FirewireĪlesis has a very good entry level mixer that exists in 2 flavours: Firewire or USB 2.0. Below I discuss a firewire mixer and an external USB audio interface. Preferably a firewire mixer if you have firewire on your computer, otherwise USB will do a reasonable job as well. Therefore, what you need is a little external mixer or audio interface. Most good quality sound cards do not provide phantom power either. Professional mics need that extra power and most computers, including Mac, are not configured to work with this sort of mics.
You have that wonderful and rather expensive external mic with XLR connection and discovered it doesn’t work on your computer? Yet, you bought an adapter for the XLR connection to fit into the sound board of your computer and it still doesn’t work? Chances are that your mic needs a lot of phantom power.