The burden of hypothesis is on all people proposing that they have any clue what actually happened. It is fallacious to assume that because B is not justified that A is correct. Obviously something happened, but it could be A, B, C, D, E, whatever whatever. Also, I'd say that traditional explanation...

Also bear in mind that although the yamaha will provide phantom 48v to 4 xlr inputs and give you extra input channels into the mixer, it will still only give you two seperate channels into your laptop at one time, as is often the case with USB interfaces. I think this reason will move me to the Edi...

I'm currently running directly into my sound card and working in Ableton Live. I would like to make the switch over to an interface that has phantom power and is portable so I can use it with my laptop (doesn't have firewire). So, these usb interface things are getting pretty good reviews on other s...

After seeing the reasonable prices of a lot of the smaller mixers, I am now leaning towards that idea... getting a standalone power supply just doesn't seem worth dealing with. Thanks for that. I understand the value of using the desk mixer just for channeling the audio into my soundcard (just by so...

I have an X-Fi elite pro (which was a rip off and I regret getting, but I went with for it's gaming features too). It has an external hub thing that's got two 1/4" inch jacks on the front with knobs that control the input gain, so I run my electronic instruments straight through that (using amp...

Thanks for the quick help guys. With more thought, I figured there could have been a power issue, but the Rode manual is written in extremely casual speak. Anyway, I could try googling for standalone phantom power supplies, but I'd rather go with a recommendation on here (as I did for the mic). Anyo...

So, I just bought this NT-2 from ebay and I think it might be broken. I'm not experienced with real equipment so I'd like to see if there is something basic that I'm overlooking. I have an SM-57 and I run it into my external sound card and I can monitor it in Ableton Live and when I just swap the mi...