well, your choises are huge ..
have a look on diy-audio and head-fi forums for discussions of different options ..
if it's a totaly cheap mic - you can just plug it into soundcards like soundblester ..
i myself have an alen&heath 14 desk (zed-14) .. it's good for most of the stuff i do here at the moment. i got a funny '70s AKAI mic which is good enuf to shout into and make beatbox trought pd effects that i build.
but i'm planning to get a few SM-58's and some concer mic at some point .. but now i haven't got cash for that.
you see ..i cannot recomend you a preamp to your mic cause it's to complicated to answer such question - all depends how much cash you are willing to invest ..
may be, if you are after a cheap&cheerful option you could look at some usb-mics ??
but yeah ..check out the two formus i meantioned, they are populated by loats of decent audio gear diyers ;)
also sound-on-sound magazine may be ..for reviews on new gear.
but i have a feeling that a usb-mic is the right gadgd for you!
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 04:42:51PM -0400, mrz wrote:
hei, I have a question not directly related to PD. But since this list is my favorite audio and device-hackers list I ask it here. (maybe you can refer me to a nice list about topics like that.) I have some microphones - a very cheap small microphone and a stereo mic- they work fine to record into my mp3-player. But I want to record directly with those mics into pd trough my soundcard (audio kontrol 1). And it's not amplified. How can i build a hardware amplifier for those mics- or buy something like that? any suggestions? (I prefer to buy something- since I have to hack allready a lot of other devices...)
thanks for any hints cheers [moritz~]
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