JordanDoyle
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I've had a decent setup for close to a year now consisting of an SM7B, 286s and a 2i2 and this has worked really well for me. I've recently "upgraded" my setup and bought a 802VLZ4, 131s and a PRO-XL MDX2600.
My signal chain looks like this:
Because the inserts are now mounted in a rack they're ~6 meters away, I decided to gain closer to the mic so I'm not running a low voltage over a "long" run (I've tried gain at the 286s but there is a LOT of noise). I noticed there was a nice big electromagnetic hum when speaking (this is how I figured out it was at the 802VLZ4 - because the 286s was gating out the EM hum whenever I wasn't talking). I took the insert out and there was a lot of buzzing when the Mackie was turned up to 60db gain. Plugging the microphone directly into the 2i2 with gain on full yielded a nice clean signal.
The mixer is connected to the interface using 2 individual TRS cables so I don't have to mess about with any virtual stuff to convert my mono signal to stereo. I'm convinced the noise is not introduced between the mixer and the interface because the noise gets gated out by the channel strip.
Has anyone had this problem with Onyx preamps on Mackie mixers before? Any solutions? This happens on every channel.
I guess now would be the time to invest in a nice preamp... I've wanted to have some sort of tube in my signal chain for a while now to colour my signal. Are there any nice affordable tube preamps (£100-£200? Or is this too low...) that could drive an SM7B out there?
Cheers
My signal chain looks like this:
Code:
SM7B
↓ → (insert on 802VLZ4)
802VLZ4 ↓
↓ 286s
2i2 ↓
MDX2600
↓
131s
Because the inserts are now mounted in a rack they're ~6 meters away, I decided to gain closer to the mic so I'm not running a low voltage over a "long" run (I've tried gain at the 286s but there is a LOT of noise). I noticed there was a nice big electromagnetic hum when speaking (this is how I figured out it was at the 802VLZ4 - because the 286s was gating out the EM hum whenever I wasn't talking). I took the insert out and there was a lot of buzzing when the Mackie was turned up to 60db gain. Plugging the microphone directly into the 2i2 with gain on full yielded a nice clean signal.
The mixer is connected to the interface using 2 individual TRS cables so I don't have to mess about with any virtual stuff to convert my mono signal to stereo. I'm convinced the noise is not introduced between the mixer and the interface because the noise gets gated out by the channel strip.
Has anyone had this problem with Onyx preamps on Mackie mixers before? Any solutions? This happens on every channel.
I guess now would be the time to invest in a nice preamp... I've wanted to have some sort of tube in my signal chain for a while now to colour my signal. Are there any nice affordable tube preamps (£100-£200? Or is this too low...) that could drive an SM7B out there?
Cheers