
If your mic has a 3-pin male XLR connector, then any standard XLR cable will do the the trick. Plenty of speakers come with the widely used female XLR connector, as seen on the left-most image above. What kind of cable do I need? Speakers with an XLR Socket For more on this, check out the last part of this blog. If nothing of the sort can be found near the inputs on your speaker, it’s likely that it can’t take a microphone signal and a (simple) mixer will be required. These can be identified by an input label reading ‘mic’, or a tiny depiction of a microphone.
You’ll also need a speaker with a microphone input. (If you’ve got a passive speaker, chances are you already own a separate, external amplifier or a powered mixer.) If you want to connect your microphone directly to your speaker, you need to make sure that it’s an active speaker. Connecting a microphone directly to a speakerĬonnecting a microphone directly to a speaker. Below, you can find out which components we’re talking about and what you should keep in mind. Vocal amplification can be very straightforward, as long as your setup contains the right ingredients. Can it be done, you ask? While it certainly can, you’re going to need a suitable microphone and speaker, although some cases leave a little room for a creative solution.
So, you want to amplify your voice, but all you’ve got is a microphone, a cable and a speaker.