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advice required - Mic for broadcasting
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:19 pm
by kynch
I've been doing an online radio show for a while now but i've always just mixed tunes and not done any talking due to shyness/lazyness. Finally decided I ought to get a mic and actually present a show but i'm not sure where to start. I broadcast using Virtual DJ (yeah judge me) and i'm not sure how/whether it's possible to hook up a microphone to broadcast via vdj. I do have an external soundcard with xlr inputs (phonic helix 12 firewire mixer) although i've not used it for months... any advice would be helpful!
Re: advice required - Mic for broadcasting
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:32 pm
by Widowmaker
kynch wrote:I've been doing an online radio show for a while now but i've always just mixed tunes and not done any talking due to shyness/lazyness. Finally decided I ought to get a mic and actually present a show but i'm not sure where to start. I broadcast using Virtual DJ (yeah judge me) and i'm not sure how/whether it's possible to hook up a microphone to broadcast via vdj. I do have an external soundcard with xlr inputs (phonic helix 12 firewire mixer) although i've not used it for months... any advice would be helpful!
i do this, i use my mixer routing into my soundcard from the "record" output... then in vdj when u wanna broadcast select "line in" or something similar on your soundcard instead of master..
this is the only way u can do it really through an external mixer.
Re: advice required - Mic for broadcasting
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:41 pm
by kynch
sweet, i'll give that a go when i get my hands on a microphone, thanks for the help bro!
Re: advice required - Mic for broadcasting
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:08 pm
by wilson
kynch wrote:I've been doing an online radio show for a while now but i've always just mixed tunes and not done any talking due to shyness/lazyness. Finally decided I ought to get a mic and actually present a show but i'm not sure where to start. I broadcast
using Virtual DJ (yeah judge me) and i'm not sure how/whether it's possible to hook up a microphone to broadcast via vdj. I do have an external soundcard with xlr inputs (phonic helix 12 firewire mixer) although i've not used it for months... any advice would be helpful!
Dude I'm a vinyl DJ but gotta admit you can do some pretty cool shit with Virtual DJ, and with very little effort lol so it's all good.
Re: advice required - Mic for broadcasting
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:17 pm
by deadly_habit
a cheap vocal mic like a shure pg48/58 would do the trick in this case and be relatively light on the wallet
Re: advice required - Mic for broadcasting
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:05 pm
by kynch
@wilson Yeah there's definately upsides and downsides to both, just about to get my first set of turntables, keen to get into playing vinyl!
@deadly habit thanks for the advice, will check it out