You can program 1 of the 10 programmable buttons to turn NaturallySpeaking's microphone on and off. The problem with hand-held microphones is that they tend to fall a little short of the mark in noise cancellation but our favorite and most popular handheld microphone is the Philips Speech Mic USB microphone. playing it safe, as power demand can be considered in mic design, so as to work with power available with USB source, if integrated, but not for all mics that could be plugged into a common XLR connector.Įdit : This one from Blue Company says it sends a 48v power to microphone. have to learn more to see if they are just for dynamics, uses the USB power just for the Analog to digital conversion within itself.
Plus there are several other brands in that market niche. I also noticed Shure makes an XLR to USB adapter, for those SM57 users, too. So if recording is what you want to do with it theres one made just for that.
Ok I was thinking XLR cable 990, but I stopped by the MF website and see they sell a USB But having used it once live, I can tell you that it modulates sound in perceptual real time, with no noticeable lag.
Given the fact that GR is software, I am sure there must be some miniscule lag.
I have Cubase on my laptop for portable recording. Right now, I often use the box with Guitar Rig software, although I can also use it for recording or listening to any audio on the laptop.
I bought the "Session" box specifically to use GR on my Mac laptop, mostly with the idea of using it onstage, and occasionally for field recording. I immediately hear the change without stopping the machine, if that's what you mean. I will often change settings as I am listening to a tune. Often, I will record the electric mandolin dry, and then add the effect as a real time plugin.
On the desktop, I have a Protools Digi system, which is a full-featured interface.Īs far as applying effects live, and monitoring on the fly, on my desktop I use the GR software primarily as an RTAS plugin within Protools. I use the Session interface only on my laptop, but use Guitar Rig on both a laptop and a desktop mac. If it is me you are asking, Rob, (you don't make it clear) then i can tell you that GR Session works with either mac or windows. I have yet to find another mandolin player using this very sophisticated hardware/software package. If you do end up buying it, and then start building your own GR presets, please let me know by email. Or listen to many more unusual electric mandolin sounds by following the link, back to "songs". You can hear one of my own recorded mandolin presets at the song link, below. In fact, I haven't had a real guitar amp (nor a guitar player's complaint) in my studio for well over a year.
I also use it almost exclusively these days, when I have an electric guitarist come in to my studio for a session. I use it all the time in recording, although I haven't had much opportunity yet to use it in a live performance. Although at least half of these presets are made for electric guitar, it is quite easy - and rather intoxicating - to start building your own presets specifically for mandolin. It also has an XLR input plus phantom power if you want to record vocals. You plug your instrument into the phone jack input of the Session box, then connect it to your mac via USB, then output to an amp, or a mixer.
The "Session" interface that comes with it is about the size of 4 stacked CDs. Guitar Rig Session includes 50 or 60 different stomp boxes, amps, rack mounts, tuner, even tape recorders so you can play with something you just recorded. It is way more versatile than anything you can do with Garageband or Audacity. I use it with a Godin A8 electric mandolin. I own an audio interface called Guitar Rig Session for my own mandolin/macbook setup.