Hey guys, I've been struggling with a noticeable white noise hiss on all of my condenser mic recordings since I started with this stuff almost 2 years ago.
I'm using an M-Audio MobilePre USB and after trying my best to isolate everything, I think that has to be the problem. I once tried my whole setup but with an ooooold MOTU audio interface in place of the M-Audio, and I still got white noise, but not as much with the same gain settings.
So basically, is there any spec on the hardware of an audio interface that I can look for regarding this? I'm trying to avoid buying and shipping back one interface after another, hoping to find a good one.
I just need the most basic piece: one XLR input is pretty much all I use these for. It seems every company makes a comparable model and they're all about the same price. So what specs make the difference? When I try to compare the MobilePre to others, they don't even all use the same terms. For example, the manual states an S/N of "91, typical, A-weighted" while some others don't mention S/N at all but rather EIN. Are these the same thing? What am I really looking for?
I'm using an M-Audio MobilePre USB and after trying my best to isolate everything, I think that has to be the problem. I once tried my whole setup but with an ooooold MOTU audio interface in place of the M-Audio, and I still got white noise, but not as much with the same gain settings.
So basically, is there any spec on the hardware of an audio interface that I can look for regarding this? I'm trying to avoid buying and shipping back one interface after another, hoping to find a good one.
I just need the most basic piece: one XLR input is pretty much all I use these for. It seems every company makes a comparable model and they're all about the same price. So what specs make the difference? When I try to compare the MobilePre to others, they don't even all use the same terms. For example, the manual states an S/N of "91, typical, A-weighted" while some others don't mention S/N at all but rather EIN. Are these the same thing? What am I really looking for?