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Hi.
I have a problem with noise in my studio setup, it's very low in volume but is it normal?
Things I've tried / Changed:
New sound card
New computer (from pc to mac pro)
New apartment
Turning off as many things in my studio as possible (only mac and sound card turned on)
Taking everyting out of the sound card inputs and outputs (only firewire cable connected)
Any tips on how I can get rid of it?
Could it have something do to with that microphone icon on channel 1?
It's normal. You can get rid of most of it with a balanced connection (XLR or jack 1/4'') between the speakers and the sound card
1/2 of The Antipodes. Open-minded trance lover. A DJ & Producer whose aim is only to share his goosebumps with the crowd.
No thats the status for the trackOriginally Posted by ThomasM
Last edited by richie; 12-25-2012 at 16:07 PM.
I use Jack from soundcard to XLR in the speakers, but even if their not connected I still get the noise problem.
Everything I record gets a nasty white noise kind of sound to it, although it doesn't look loud on the spectrum you can really hear it.
Last edited by richie; 12-25-2012 at 16:08 PM.
Is this on in- or output, or both?
Some noise is normal if you use an internal soundcard, especially on laptops. Noise should not normally appear on external sound cards.
The noise on the spectrum is pretty severe. What kind of cables and connectors do you have? Perhaps the cables are unshielded and receive interference of some kind. Other than that I have no clue. Try contacting your sound card supplier!
I use external sound card with MacPro. As I stated in the first post I can unplug everything except the firewire cable and still get noise on the inputs, my two sound cards are TC-Electronic desktop connect 6 and Alesis Multimix16 FireWire, but I don't think the problem is any of my gear since I litteraly changed everything some years ago. After speaking to some people I think the problem is in the mains actually. But still no solution to the problem
That's strange.. it might be due to the electrostatic and/or electromagnetic interference in the electric system in your house
1/2 of The Antipodes. Open-minded trance lover. A DJ & Producer whose aim is only to share his goosebumps with the crowd.
If this is the problem, do you know of a way to fix it?
I have come across this before its hard to pin point as it could be a number of factors. If you using an interface it try a different usb cable, also try the sample rate in your soundcard/interface control panel. e.g. try 44k or 96k and see if that helps. Theres also a little gadget called a hum destroyer by behringer that sometimes solves this problem too, if you want to google that one.
The switching of sample rate did nothing and the hum destroyer removes humming only, my problem is noise over the whole spectrum from 0hz to 20 something khz
I'm not sure if this is the problem but the following article is a very interesting read about the ground loop:
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/groundloop/
You might try to move your setup to another room, otherwise I don't know
1/2 of The Antipodes. Open-minded trance lover. A DJ & Producer whose aim is only to share his goosebumps with the crowd.
It seems this is not my problem since the goundloops produce humming and not noise, at least thats what I got out of reading the article.
I have changed apartments, but it is in the same building, maybe there is a problem in the whole building.You might try to move your setup to another room, otherwise I don't know
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