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Hi there,

I am guessing that you do not have a microphone problem at all but a recording setup problem. I am not familiar with Mixcraft 5 but I am sure it has some options to set that can take care of these problems.

First, singing in a stadium makes me think that you are somehow getting your vocal on there twice which sounds like an echo. That probably is caused by latency. Latency is essentially the delay between your singing and the recorder recording it and then playing it back to you in your headphones.

When you record, you should be listening to the playback of the music plus the sound of the mic going into the recording device, not coming back out. This might be referred to as monitoring. There is probably a choice to be made in your Mixcraft somewhere.

The second issue is probably related to the first. Somehow going into the system via USB, you are hearing either the music or your singing coming back into the headphones in a delayed manner and are therefore not singing at the right time.

I can't tell you much more than this without having the system in front of me. I would put the USB mic aside for now and get the Samson going first. Look for help with Mixcraft on line - maybe there is a user's forum. Look for setup and latency instructions. Also look for instruction regarding monitoring vocals.

Once you get that sorted out, you should be able to lay down a good clean vocal track. Then you will be ready to add compression, equalization and reverb.