- Hi, I'm Jordan from Kettnercreative.
In this video, we're gonna show you
how to set up and connect
the NEAT Worker Bee condenser microphone
to the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 audio interface.
This is an extremely high value, low price,
high quality microphone, home studio setup.
It's great for podcasting, voiceover work,
or general home studio use as well.
This is a setup that I'm currently recommending
to people who ask me personally,
just because of how high quality
and affordable everything is.
On that note if you do want pricing or specs
for anything that you see in this video,
please check out the links in the description below.
We have links to everything that you see here.
So we're gonna show you how to set up, connect,
and then we're gonna do a test recording in Garage Band
and guide you through that whole process,
so you'll be able to hear how this sounds together.
So, first of all,
we're gonna connect the audio interface to the computer,
using a USB cable here.
So the back of the Focusrite Scarlett is USB-C.
You connect that.
And luckily our computer is USB-C as well,
so that'll just go straight into it there.
You'll see this unit power up. All the lights come on.
So next we wanna connect the microphone
to the audio interface.
So let's start by connecting
the XLR cable to the microphone.
Perfect; then I'll connect this to the first microphone
input on the Scarlett 2i2.
Now, this is a condenser microphone, and as we all know,
condenser microphones do require 48 volts
of phantom power in order to work.
So I'm just gonna turn on this 48-volt
phantom power button here.
Okay. Next, I'm gonna plug in my headphones.
I wanna make sure that I can hear everything.
And then I'm gonna go over to my computer
and do some setup over there.
On my computer, I just opened Garage Band here.
We're gonna start a new project.
It's gonna ask us if we want to use the Scarlett 2i2,
and we do wanna use it.
And we wanna record a microphone from input one
on the Scarlett 2i2.
We'll hit create.
And then we'll hit ALT-T
and then we'll turn on this record enable.
Click that away. That allows us to arm the tracks.
We can see what we're doing.
Okay. So back on the Scarlet to 2i2.
What we wanna do here is we wanna speak
into the microphone.
As we do that, we're gonna turn up this gain knob
until we see some green flickering.
You do wanna see that green flickering
when you're speaking.
You don't want it to be too solid.
You just want it to be flickering like that.
If it goes all the way up to yellow here,
then that's when it's hitting minus six.
And if it goes red, then it's hitting zero, which is bad.
That means it's peaking.
So somewhere around the 75% mark
probably will work for us.
Looking over to Garage Band here.
It looks like we're getting a healthy level there.
I'm just gonna back it down just a little bit.
So now I'm gonna hit record in Garage Band,
and we have our recording in Garage Band there
that you can see and hear now.
So that's how you'd set up this microphone
with this interface into Garage Band.
And this is what it sounds like when you make
a sample recording with this setup here.
So we're gonna stop the recording.
And one other note that when you're doing a recording
like this in Garage Band,
when you hit share and you hit export song to disk,
it will automatically normalize the audio for you.
So it'll bump it up a little bit
if you did get a little bit quiet there,
but you have all your other mixing options as well,
to do it how you want.
I hope this video has been helpful to you.
If you have any other questions about this microphone
or this audio interface,
there's another video
that you want to see us do in the future,
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Thank you for watching.
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