![]() ![]() You see, if you just plug the mic directly into a line-level jack you'll be dozens of dB too low, and you'll lose a lot of dynamic range trying to boost everything inside the MPC Live. All of these will boost your signal for you. You could get a vocal effects unit like the TC Helicon VoiceTone T1 for well under $200. You could get a small mixer such as the Behringer Xenyx Q502USB which will boost your mic signal for you, for around $60. You can get a cheap preamp, like the SE Electronics Dynamite, which is about $100. I know that this hurts, but I would, in your position, make a little choice. You can absolutely plug a mic directly into the line input with a quarter inch jack at the end of your cable (it should hurt neither mic nor MPC) but the unamplified signal from the mic will be very low compared to what the line level socket expects. The normal choice, in this context, would be to put the microphone through some kind of mic pre-amp, to bring microphone levels up to line level, or through a vocal effects unit (such as the Boss VE-500), or through a mixer with an XLR input. There's no law against it, and if you're handy with a soldering iron you could sort it out yourself, but it would be unusual, because of all sorts of reasons best summarised as: mics don't talk phono. As a general rule, you won't get a microphone cable terminating in a phono jack. You keep saying "phono jacks", but those are generally how you plug in a turntable. OK, this is where it gets a little weirder. (And on a peripheral note, the Force doesn't suck any more, so if you're looking for an electronic studio friend, try swiping right on the Force.) Right now, to the best of my knowledge, only the MPC X and the Force offer phantom power and combo sockets. Really, phantom power is the limitation here, but given that you're dealing with an MPC Live (to judge by your signature) you probably already know that you don't have XLR connections or phantom power, which is why I'm assuming that you'll be plugging it into a mixer - and even some pretty affordable Behringer mixers give you XLR sockets and phantom power, so that seems like the plan to me. The typical plug at the end of microphone cables is the XLR, but you can also get them with TS plugs, which makes them a bit more flexible, especially in the case of dynamic microphones that don't need phantom power. ![]() That said, many vocal effects units will give you two channels out, because they're capable of using stereo effects such as pingpong delay. There are a few specialised exceptions, usually with fancy tricks around stereo imaging, but as a general rule, what comes from a mic is a single audio channel.
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