{"id":2781,"date":"2022-02-25T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/use-professional-sennheiser-clip-on-microphone-on-laptop\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:36:49","slug":"use-professional-sennheiser-clip-on-microphone-on-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/use-professional-sennheiser-clip-on-microphone-on-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Use professional Sennheiser clip-on microphone on laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who have an excellent microphone and want to use it on your laptop, I have these recommendations:<\/p>\n

Even if you have a nice lavalier microphone<\/strong> (= clip-on microphone) with a 3.5 mm jack plug or a great radio link, you unfortunately can’t use it on your laptop. This is because these devices are intended for professional use on audio equipment and unfortunately not for use on a laptop.<\/p>\n

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon as a laptop and a Sennheiser radio link<\/strong> (G3) with Sennheiser lapel microphone (= lavalier microphone). The clip-on microphone has a 3.5 mm jack plug. The Sennheiser radio receiver also has a 3.5 mm jack output, but it goes to an XLR connector<\/strong> (and usually into the camera). The laptop, in turn, usually also only has a combined speaker-microphone jack. It has four contacts. A speaker-only or mic-only jack has three contacts. Connecting a (cheap) USB sound card, which has a separate speaker and microphone output each, unfortunately did nothing. The audio quality was subterranean.<\/p>\n

The solution is a USB-XLR interface<\/strong> or a mini mixer with USB socket<\/strong>. I ordered this one from Thomann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With this solution I can use my lapel microphone and have my hands free in video conferences and video trainings. The sound quality is excellent. I can recommend this solution to anyone who has a professional Sennheiser clip-on microphone and connect it to your laptop, for example. for video calls, video conferences or webinars<\/strong> – wants to use. Of course, this also works with probably all other professional clip-on microphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who have an excellent microphone and want to use it on your laptop, I have these recommendations: Even if you have a nice lavalier microphone (= clip-on microphone) with a 3.5 mm jack plug or a great radio link, you unfortunately can’t use it on your laptop. This is because these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corona-en","category-present-virtually","category-tools-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparkpoint.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}