Samson C01u Pro Microphone

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Rodney Liuzzo

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:12:33 PM8/3/24

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I use the samson c01u mic. for recording in audacity. I play a karaoke sample on track 1 and record the mic. on track 2. I noticed it sounds bad.
A) I generated a 10.000 Hz tone and recorded on CD. Played it into the mic. using a cd-player using only one track in audacity. After that I did a spectrum analysis. It looked exactly the same as the originally generated 10.000 Hz tone. It also sounded the same. Thus using 1 track the samson performed ok.
B) I played the same sample through the speakers on track 1 and recorded on track 2. After that I played track 2 only. It sounds strange. I did spectrum analysis and found strange peaks next to the 10.000 Hz. Thus recording and playing at the same time in 2 tracks does not work.

Now I wonder if this problem could be solved using for example a seperate sound card (instead of the motherboard integrated one) or is a new and faster computer necessary to do real time multi-track recording ?

Your computer is probably not the problem, I used to use a P3 800-MHz to record 20+ track projects (though never more than 2 at a time). I would first suspect the sound card, then I would try turning off any virus checkers, malware, or other resource hogs.

A) I generated a 10.000 Hz tone and recorded on CD. Played it into the mic. using a cd-player using only one track in audacity. After that I did a spectrum analysis. It looked exactly the same as the originally generated 10.000 Hz tone. It also sounded the same. Thus using 1 track the samson performed ok.
B) I played the same sample through the speakers on track 1 and recorded on track 2. After that I played track 2 only. It sounds strange. I did spectrum analysis and found strange peaks next to the 10.000 Hz. Thus recording and playing at the same time in 2 tracks does not work.

The reason I did these tests is because we were playing the karaoke song (located in track 1) through the computer sound card into the headphones and at the same time recording the voice in track 2. This recorded voice in track 2 did not sound as I did hear it at all.

Thus in test B I played the 10.000 Hz tone (located in track 1) through the computer sound card through the speakers connected to this sound card and recorded at the same time in track 2 with the SAMSON C01U USB mic. In test A I played the 10.000 Hz tone with a seperate CD player.

The final recording should be the vocal and the backing track. I know how to realise this inside audacity. With the SAMSON mic. on USB and internal audio card to play the karaoke sample on headphones this simply does not give reasonable results as I did prove in the previous posts in this discussion.

EDIT: Seemingly found a fix, you can remap the audio for the same way that is described for speakers on the Arch wiki. Thanks to reddit user venog95385 for pointing it out. I will post it below for anyone else experiencing the same problem with the Samson c01u or any other microphone.

i have the samson c01u and my old vocalist has the blue yeti mic, both are nice, the yeti is definitely nicer but also deffinitely more expensive, i paid $109.95 for my samson brand new in the box, my buddy paid more than double that for his blue yeti

It is a good mic. I first started using a Shure SM-58 as that was all I had. I switched over to
a Blue Snowball USB mic for most recording applications soon after, but the Samson is indeed
another very decent microphone.

I bought a usb condenser similar to the samson. It works fine except that the osx preference app never keeps up with the newest version of osx, so I have to control the input and output volume externally.

Hi there! I need to record myself singing on GarageBand to backing tracks on YouTube or accompanied by ukulele. Any advice on what mircrophone would work best for singing and ukulele would be much appreciated! It sounds so average with just the Mac microphone and the ukulele sounds awful!

hi i was wondering what that filter is called in front of the mic in the picture at the top of the website is called and which one you would recommend? Does the C01U come with all the wires and connectors needed?

I bought the XLR version of this Samson mike to go with my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 back in about 2013 and I also recommend it to newcomers. But if you can afford it, the Audio Technica AT2020 has a clearer sound and, in 2020 can be had for a fair bit less than 100.