Okay, so I took the plunge and bought myself some proper kit.
Got an acoustic guitar feeding into a rode nt-1a, going into an alesis multimix 4 mixer, then USB straight into Reaper.
The problem i'm having isn't sound quality (the rode is a beaut) but in getting a decent volume level. It's either really good quality but too quiet, or loud enough but clipping/distorting. Some slow finger picking tells me it's too much bass.
Way I see it it's either,
My mike placement (I've tried all sorts of different angles/mike orientations)
I'm strangling the signal chain somewhere (trial and error says no)
The mixer pre amp being too weak (I'm assuming the Gain and Level knobs mean there's an amp built in)
So the question is; do I need a pre amp? And do you have any (free
) suggestions to try before I sink some money into one?
Thanks as always!
Peter