Mic->Monotron->Computer

Still a total hardware noob (have none yet) but I have a feeling the Monotron would make a pretty cool filter for vox, and with Christmas coming up, I may be able to get my parents to hook me up with at least a monotron and maybe a relatively cheap mic. My question is: what kind of mic should I be looking for/ what kind of cables/converters/etc would I need? Do I need an interface or direct-line soundcard for this? Or could I just run it into my computer's line-in jack?

Any kind of cheap mic with a minijack should work, if you've got a skype headset or similar that'd do nicely. You can run your monotron straight into your computers line in. There are better and more expensive solutions, but I like to keep things cheap and dirty.

Awesome. I'm not going for high-end crystal sound by any means, so that's good to know.

yeah this to me is not worth the effort, better to plug mic into computer and filter it there, mic thru monotron dosnt really the apply lfo,(the signal is too complicated i guess) which is where the fun is at. plugging a 303 or a 707 produces fucking wicked results tho. oh and if you did do this you would need to boost the signal of the mic, easy option would be a guitar pedal like distortion or eq or something

  On 12/1/2010 at 11:18 AM, elliot said:

oh and if you did do this you would need to boost the signal of the mic, easy option would be a guitar pedal like distortion or eq or something

oh right, I didn't think of this. @self

  On 12/1/2010 at 11:18 AM, elliot said:

yeah this to me is not worth the effort, better to plug mic into computer and filter it there, mic thru monotron dosnt really the apply lfo,(the signal is too complicated i guess) which is where the fun is at. plugging a 303 or a 707 produces fucking wicked results tho. oh and if you did do this you would need to boost the signal of the mic, easy option would be a guitar pedal like distortion or eq or something

Well, suck. Thanks for that, man... rather find out now than in a month when something doesn't work

Gocab- cheers anyway!