Studio projects b1 Noise?

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arosemond

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I bought a studio projects b1 mic that i connected to my tascam dp03sd portastudio and i keep getting noise whenever i turn the built in pre amp past halfway i changed mic cables, checked for all room noise my old mic didnt have this problem
 
- Can you hear the noise if you set the input trim/gain for a normal level when recording your voice? The B1 doesn't draw a lot of current (3.0ma) for operation and shouldn't be a problem for the DP03.
- If you put the B1 under some blankets or a pillow to kill any room noise, does the noise change. Can you post a short mp3 clip of the noise?
- Is the humidity where you are particularly high? Moisture on the mics diaphragm might cause some noise.
In another post you had mentioned a string of adapters that were originally tried and conceivably could have put phantom where it shouldn't be. Hopefully nothing is damaged in the mic.
 
witzendoz said:
Connected with XLR to XLR cable?

Alan.
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arcaxis said:
- Can you hear the noise if you set the input trim/gain for a normal level when recording your voice? The B1 doesn't draw a lot of current (3.0ma) for operation and shouldn't be a problem for the DP03.
- If you put the B1 under some blankets or a pillow to kill any room noise, does the noise change. Can you post a short mp3 clip of the noise?
- Is the humidity where you are particularly high? Moisture on the mics diaphragm might cause some noise.
In another post you had mentioned a string of adapters that were originally tried and conceivably could have put phantom where it shouldn't be. Hopefully nothing is damaged in the mic.
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I replaced the adapters with a true xlr mogami cable, and i have the thick foam cap over the mic, i get the hiss in other inputs as well when but only on phantom power, i think my phantom power on my dp03sd is just crappy and i need a separate unit
 
Hey. Thanks fro reporting back.

Could you tell us how?
It might help other people searching the same problem in future.
 
Steenamaroo said:
Hey. Thanks fro reporting back.

Could you tell us how?
It might help other people searching the same problem in future.
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sure thing, it took me awhile and i had gone through everything i could, first i got some cables which made it worse so then i got a mogami gold mic cable and plugged it into my tascam dp03sd. still some noise, so i turned the pre amps down but the signal wasnt strong enough. so then one day i was messin with my boss rc30 and saw that it supplied phantom power so i thought "why not try it?" so after hooking everything up i was able to get a decent signal
 
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