RØDE NT1-A with the PC (USB & Jack) connect

How you can operate your RØDE NT1-A is connected correctly to the PC via a USB and Jack plug to connect, we show you in this guide. The RØDE NT1-A is one of the most popular Studio microphones on the market, and actually has only an XLR plug, but this is not a Problem.

RØDE NT1-A is connect via a Jack plug to the PC

The RØDE NT1-A is a dynamic microphone, the phantom power of 48 volts is required. Without electricity nothing goes. If you want to use your microphone, you need therefore, is a device that supplies this voltage. Here we recommend a mixer such as the Behringer XENYX 802, the we in this article also use. The exact installation we show you in Detail in the images gallery at the page end.

To first build your NT1-A is correct. In General, a microphone spider on a Arm or tripod mounted, in the later the microphone clamped.
Then, connect a XLR cable from your microphone to the mixer. Insert one side of the cable from below into your NT1-A and the other side in the XLR Port on your mixer on the top left.
After that, you need a special RCA cablethat on one side a 3.5 mm Jack plug (stereo) and on the other hand, two 6.3-mm Jack plug (Mono) has. Insert the two large Mono-plug at the top right of the section "MAIN OUT" in your console. The white connector at the top ("L plug"), and the red connector below it ("R").
Then, connect the power supply of your mixer to a power outlet.
To enable phantom power, press the small black button under the "PHANTOM" is. This is located directly above the volume LEDs. Caution: never Pull, as long as the phantom power supply is activated, the plug-in of your mixer. Due to the voltage drop of the microphone is damaged. Always turn off the phantom power with a re-Press on the button, and then disconnect the power connection of your mixer.
Then plug the 3.5 mm Jack plug into an available microphone Jack on your computer. With many PCs, this one has a pink border.
Finally, it should be able to select interactive objects on your Computer is a window in which you that it is a microphone input.

RØDE NT1-A is connect via USB to the PC

A little more complicated it looks, however, if you want to connect your NT1-A to your computer via USB. But you get it:

Here, too, it is recommended to set back to a mixer. For example, the Behringer XENYX Q802USB audio signals via a USB cable. Also, this is a phantom power of 48 volts delivers.
If you are not quite so much money to spend want to, you can also use a Behringer ZB791 UMC22 invest. This little device also supplies the appropriate phantom power and can be easily charged via USB connect. However, you have to this only one XLR connection, and only a very few functions. However, for a microphone at home it is enough.
Tip: A good Alternative to the NT1-A the RØDE NT-USB, which is a microphone with a USB port, and integrated volume controls and a port for headphones.

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