HangDawg said:Huh!!.....
Yep. Try and find out where the noise is coming from to begin with. Is it the computer fan, fridge fan. etc? Is it bad gain staging (gaining something too hot somehwere on the analog side of the chain?) Is it a noisy preamp or mic? Are you recording through a cheapo laptop sound card? You really should nail that down as best as you can, because frangly you should not be getting that much hiss on your recordings to begin with.Amnesia Vivace said:First off, try to get rid of the source of the noise, then re-record.
Start by recording dead tracks on your computer, first with nothing plugged into your converter. Then with your mixer plugged in, and so forth down your signal path in reverse from your computer on down to the microphone. At what point in the chain does the nose come in? Does it all come in at once or in stages? That'll tell you where your problems are located.NTK88 said:Ok how do you suggest testing?
Is there a certain db level to test at?
Our gain level is only at 3/10 on our mixer.
SouthSIDE Glen said:Start by recording dead tracks on your computer, first with nothing plugged into your converter. Then with your mixer plugged in, and so forth down your signal path in reverse from your computer on down to the microphone. At what point in the chain does the nose come in? Does it all come in at once or in stages? That'll tell you where your problems are located.
But I have suspcions that maybe either you're coming in through a cheap computer soundcard that's adding the noise, and/or that you're running the outputs from your mixer into the Mic in instead of the Line in on a computer sound card. If it's not that simple, then troubleshoot the signal chain as described above.
G.
Yeah, and....????NTK88 said:We use a DAW
SouthSIDE Glen said:Yeah, and....????
What is your definition of DAW? That could mean almost anything from a copy of SoundForge 2 to an entire project studio desk.
You still gotta isolate the source of the noise and you still gotta do it through good old fashoned troubleshooting as described.
G.