How in gods name do i hook up a condenser mic/mixer into my computer?
If you can hook your mic to your mixer, good deal. In any case, at least you can hook your mixer to your PC, if you have a half-decent soundcard (most modern PCs have built-in sound with a line-in or mic-in anyway). The mini-stereo jacks are usually coloured too, in a loose standard: green for speaker/line out (output); pink for mic-in, and something else (blue?) for alternate speakers/surround/line-in overloaded in a single jack, controllable by software. Connect the “record-out” or “line-out” (line level output) from your mixer to the line-in of your PC. You’ll probably need a patchcord/adaptor that looks like stereo RCA plugs on one end and a stereo-mini plug on the other. Once connected, use the Windows volume control panel applet thingy to adjust levels for your line-in. You might have to adjust the properties of the applet to show advanced stuff, and choose which controls to display, etc. Mess with it — you can’t “break” anything, but keep your hardware speaker volume low (e.g.
