Hi im Zen
i have some troubles with recording the classical guitars, i have some equipments that are not so bad for a home studio but so far i still havent received any desired quality
Let me go slowly on my gears, i have 2 systems for recording, PC windows and a laptop windows
PC system with this spec :
- 16 Gb Ram
- VGA : NVDIA Geforce GTX 580
- CPU : core i7 2600k
- Sound card : ASUS Xonar Essence STX
Laptop system spec:
- 8GB RAM
- VGA: NVIDIA geforce GT 750M
-CPU : core i7 3630QM
- Sound : MOTU Microbook II inteface ( i had to buy this to use over the build in sound card)
They both use Audition CS6.
Currently im using RODE NTA2 - Dynamic mic for recording.
Now the problem i have is the sound quality is nothing different from a crappy sound when we stand outside and stand away from the mic a few yards(classical guitar, when i record on laptop). it doesnt give me a rich and deep tone, it also gives me some unexpected electrical or environment noise even i activated the high pass filter or reduce the sensitive of the mic. Or after i use EQ in After Effect, pump up the high frequency and reduce the low frequency to achieve some rich tone but what i got a long with it is the noise too. im not sure what im doing wrong or have something not right with my equipments. This is the sound that i recorded few days ago : https://soundcloud.com/zendersto/testing
i dont think Audition makes any better sound if the input is bad so im really grateful if you can point out the issue from my laptop system or the audition settings.
i forgot to mention, when i record i just left everything default in Audition and record the pure sound.
The next thing, the reason i post my PC spec too because when i tried to swap the MOTU microbook to my PC, sound card from PC and MOTU conflicts and everything crashed, if i remove the Xonar Essence driver and replace it with MOTU then the sound output i think not much different from the laptop system. so i could never record on my PC, the Xonar doesnt have a plugin for the mic either.
I do not know what to do, should i change any setting of the audition or i have to add any extra equipment like a preamp. If a preamp, any reckon for my situation? i would like to record on my PC, not laptop anymore so a good advice to switch to record on it would be appreciated.
Thanks