I am trying to record on MBA but the volume is not loud enough

Hello,
I'll try to break it down quickly. I have a 2011 11" MBA and I am using GarageBand.
I use the Rocksmith jack to usb cable to play guitar and record it too, so far so good, no problem.
So I wondered, can I make it work with a microphone? As I work on a electronic shop I had everything to test it on the latest 27" iMac. For the test I used a rocksmith cable, a jack 1/4 coupler, a male jack 1/4 to male XLR cable, and a shure PG48 microphone.
I just had to put the recording level higher and everything was working just fine, great volume, great quality, perfect. So I bought all those cable that I was missing.
Arrived at home, same cable, this time with the MBA 2011 and a Shure PG 58 instead. Same setting, and the volume is very low. I have to litteraly stick my mouth on the microphone to have a decent level of sound (and have to speak really loud too !). I've checked on the macbook setting, everything was to the maximum, tried with a Shure SM57 to see if it would work, same result.
What is the problem? Is it the soundcard? Or the microphone? (That'd be weird tho') Did I forgot anything? It's weird because the guitar works just fine...
If you can help me I'd be on happy dude !
Thank you

I´m using same config, MBA rocksmith cable and Mic powered by a (singleAA baterry) Ive tried recording in Quicktime (more or less noise, good volume), audacity(way too low volume) SoundtrackPro (same low volume), GARAGEBAND (lot better volume and very decent recording, great presets and much better export options!
when you listen your recording on garageband it will sound LOW volume, im using mac headphones almost at max vol, maybe it lowers the volume so there is no feedback,... BUT whe you export to file and open it on Soundtrack or quicktime VOALA! normal voice recording is hitting 0dbs, so that gives me chance to lower down to -12dbs after doing my edits.
Use GARAGEBAND to recrod voice, or any other intrument, works great with Rocksmith USB cable, mic does require use of AA battery.
Busting my head with this for hrs until I tried Garageband.
good luck.

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