Hi, I have a 45000 and there are no XLR’s on it unfortunately, so you will have to use an adapter to go to 1/4 inch plug. That works, but I have a related question. I notice that no matter how high I turn up the 45000’s input control for the input that I plug my mic into, the mic volume never gets very high. With a guitar you have a volume control on the guitar itself so you can turn that up and get to the optimal volume level, but since standard mics don’t have a volume control on them I’m not sure how to get the mic volume up so that it can compete with the guitar volume, and again the 45000 is turned up all the way on the input I am plugging the mic into but it doesn’t end up being very loud. Is this an oversight in the 45000, or what am I missing? I am a newbie to using mics and recording by and large so I’m hoping that I am totally not aware of something easy to fix this so the mic volume can get as loud of my guitar volume. Note: I don’t even have the guitar volume up that high at all and still have this problem where you can barely hear the mic input. I just have the guitar up to the recommended level of just high enough so the clip LED barely lights on the loudest note like the manual recommends. It seems like more power is needed for the mic. Please let me know if anyone knows the answer to this, even if and especially if its just a slap-me-in-the-face easy answer, me being a newbie and all I could be missing something rather obvious to everyone else. My mic is an SM58-LC by Shure. Thanks!

Hello there, first time posting to an online forum but just happened to have purchased an EHX 45000 from Sweetwater and it arrived today. I was in the midst of still reading through the manual before even plugging anything in and wondered the same thing. Upon googling my question your question came up and I realized that I may need to invest in a mic preamp. Pretty small investment that may have a huge impact. I don’t have any direct experience with this yet, but I think it’s a valid direction to start searching out. Either way it’s not a big investment; I have seen them new as cheap as $20 – 30. I’m curious to see how your experience is with your looper as I am pretty inexperienced, but also very excited about the possibilities. Hopefully this will be of some help. Happy looping!! Keep me posted..

Ok so there’s a much MUCH better solution to microphones not being loud enough when using them with the 45000! I saw this on another post on this forum talking about similar stuff and they recommended a Shure A85F Transformer; Low Z, Female XLR to High Z 1/4-Inch Phone Plug which you can get on Amazon or most guitar/music shops locally for about $20. WOW what a difference! No need for a preamp overdrive or booster at all with this thing, and that’s a good thing because I was having feedback problems from time to time with the booster. This solves that! I think EHX should really add an internal transformer that can be switched on or off, or at least advise people buying the 45000 that if they want to use a mic then they need to buy the transformer. Only took 2 years to figure this out… haha but anyways love the 45000! Thanks EHX for making such a great looper and recorder! Looking forward to the next one you put out that maybe has 4 dedicated inputs and 8 or 16 channels so I can ditch DAWs all together, cuz I hate computers while recording.