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USB microphone to powered speaker?
Been using a Marantz Professional MPM-1000U connected to a PC
USB port, then out through the soundcard to JBL LSR305 active monitors. Sounds great to me. Question: What is required to connect such a USB microphone directly to a powered speaker like the JBL LSR305? Thanks. |
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USB microphone to powered speaker?
John Doe wrote:
Been using a Marantz Professional MPM-1000U connected to a PC USB port, then out through the soundcard to JBL LSR305 active monitors. Sounds great to me. Question: What is required to connect such a USB microphone directly to a powered speaker like the JBL LSR305? BEHRINGER STUDIO 50USB If those handle the Marantz microphone, that is the type of speaker I would use. I will look further. |
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On 2/24/2018 12:58 AM, John Doe wrote:
Question: What is required to connect such a USB microphone directly to a powered speaker like the JBL LSR305? In general, the answer is quite simple - you need a computer or something equally smart, to serve as a "host" the microphone's USB output. The computer processes the digital data from the microphone, converts it to an analog signal, and send that out through the headphone or line output of the computer. You can replace the computer with certain smart phones, but not all phones have the connectivity or the operating system extensions necessary to support USB audio. There are a few USB microphones that have both a digital and an analog output so you can use it either way, though unless the speaker has a dedicated microphone input (some powered PA speakers do) you'd need a microphone preamplifier between the microphone and speaker. For the microphone that you presently have, you're stuck with connecting it to a suitable USB host, which is something that's not built into any powered speaker that I know of. -- For a good time, call http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com |
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John Doe wrote:
Been using a Marantz Professional MPM-1000U connected to a PC USB port, then out through the soundcard to JBL LSR305 active monitors. Sounds great to me. Latency, though. Not a lot, but enough to make singing a problem. Question: What is required to connect such a USB microphone directly to a powered speaker like the JBL LSR305? A computer. This is the problem with USB microphones, and it's why I recommend people buy a conventional microphone and a computer interface instead. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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USB microphone to powered speaker?
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 07:24:33 -0500, Mike Rivers wrote:
For the microphone that you presently have, you're stuck with connecting it to a suitable USB host, which is something that's not built into any powered speaker that I know of. There are a few on sale on this side of the Atlantic which have USB inputs, but they are not microphone capable, and will only read files off USB memory sticks. -- F:\Documents\sig.txt |
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On 2/25/2018 7:32 PM, John Doe wrote:
Shouldn't be much (if any) more of a problem than a USB card input. Both must use the same digital signal. BEHRINGER STUDIO 50USB --- appears to be an example That Behringer USB speaker appears to be able to play digital audio coming from a computer. The computer is the host for the speaker. There's nothing to suggest that it can "play" audio from a digital microphone that's designed to be connected to a computer. The microphone needs a computer as its host. The speaker isn't smart enough to host it. Prove me wrong. -- For a good time, call http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com |
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On 26/02/2018 3:30 PM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 2/25/2018 7:32 PM, John Doe wrote: Shouldn't be much (if any) more of a problem than a USB card input. Both must use the same digital signal. BEHRINGER STUDIO 50USB --- appears to be an example That Behringer USB speaker appears to be able to play digital audio coming from a computer. The computer is the host for the speaker. There's nothing to suggest that it can "play" audio from a digital microphone that's designed to be connected to a computer. The microphone needs a computer as its host. The speaker isn't smart enough to host it. Prove me wrong. Needs a USB audio 'loopback' app ! Could be achieved several other ways using software that is not designed primarily for that purpose. Any DAW should do it. Maybe even the Windows mixer applet. geoff |
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On 2/26/2018 2:44 AM, geoff wrote:
Needs a USB audio 'loopback' app !Â* Could be achieved several other ways using software that is not designed primarily for that purpose. Any DAW should do it. Maybe even the Windows mixer applet. That's pretty much what I've been saying. It would be possible to build a USB audio host into the speaker, but they didn't. -- For a good time, call http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com |
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USB microphone to powered speaker?
John Doe wrote:
Shouldn't be much (if any) more of a problem than a USB card input. Both must use the same digital signal. Nope, not even a little bit. The USB buss suppports all kinds of different devices. The USB card is viewed as a mass storage device... the host machine opens it up like a disk drive. The microphone is viewed as a streaming realtime device. Now, the hardware might be there to support such a device... but the internal firmware isn't. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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