you using the microphone or line in socket on the soundcard? Avoid microphone socket on a computer like the plague - it's horrible.

As in, plugging the mic directly into the computer, with no sort of pre amp device? Well....ya.

I should be using the line-in socket? Well, I'll look for it...unfortunately on my computer none of the input sockets are labelled in text, but with pictograph/icons. :/ Guess I'll have to use my imagination.

I have a medium sized amp, which I picked up new a year ago and have hardly touched since (Stageworks PMA-7). Would I be able to jury-rig that into a pre-amp device?

FWIW, the mic is a V-Tech 1030 unidirectional. (I also picked up a spare, a MB1000H from Midnight Blues, but I really hate it. The tracks get "skips", or random split-seconds of lost sound, when I record with it.)

Slán,

~Fionn

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