Mic in too quiet

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#1

I was trying record my voice to Ableton via Digitakt, but it’s super quiet.
I am using a cheapo sennheiser 835e. When I sample with it, it’s loud and clear.
I clicked around setting on usb config, recorder, but to no avail.
Would adding a mic booster, something like Klark Teknik (just googled it) solve the problem?
Thanks.

#2

you need a pre-amp. DT is designed to receive a line level signal, which is about 1000 times hotter than a mic level signal.

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#3

Ah Ok. I wanted to skip the audio card or preamp, see if I can just hook it up and go.
Thanks.

#4

Field recorder with XLR in can do the job too. Great to have really.

These may need external phantom power to work correctly.

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#5

Thanks I am checking it out. I was looking for a low budget way to do it, hence the booster.

#6

a small mixer is a great utility to have around in general, and would solve this problem.

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#7

You can never go wrong with a mixer!

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#8

Sampled audio in DT gets automatically normalised.

You could increase gain or normalise after it hits ableton, but as other have mentioned, a preamp/mixer before DT would be more ideal

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#9

Yup have a tiny mixer, just dumbly lost the adopter. It’s somewhere in the box…haha.

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#10

I didn’t know the normalizing part, cool, thanks-

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