Aaarrrgggg!!!

[keithst]

Hey Ya'll,

As you suspected, I'm new to recording. I have a Boss BR-864 digital recorder and a Mackie CFX 12 mixer. It seems no matter what I do, I get this infernal hissing that drives me crazy! I tried running the mixer through a compressor. I could eliminate the hiss, but could get no decent volume. Turn up the volume, more hiss, block the hiss, dampened volume, yada, yada, yada...HELP!!

keithst

 

[Bill Furnett]

It's a longshot, but try to make sure you don't have mic,guitar, monitor or mixer to recorder cables running across power cords, adapter wire or extension cords, as this will sometimes create an antenna of sorts and present various noises into your signal (Even the occassional TV or radio station), however "Hiss" sounds like it might be due to something else.

 

[boingoman]

Given how basically quiet much of today's gear can be, even the cheap stuff, lots of hiss can often be traced to poor gain structure. The CFX is really susceptible to this, especially the FX section.

Keith- a little more info on your set-up please. How are you using the mixer and 864 together? That is, what purpose does the CFX serve in the chain?

 

[timboZ]

Aaarrrgggg!!!

I was hoping this was another pirate thread.

 

[keithst]

Thanks

Hey Bill,

Thanks for your quick reply. I checked the wires and junk. Doesn't seem to be any crossing that could cause any interference. Must be something else.

Keith

 

[keithst]

Thanks

boingoman,

Thanks for your quick response. As you may or may not know, the 864 only has a vocal jack, instrument jack and stereo line jacks. When I was doing all the vocals and instruments myself, I plugged straight into the recorder. Although I got some noise, the quality was good enough for my purposes.

My brothers and I now want to record multiple tracks simultaniously, and we want the quality to be good enough to make a CD of our original songs, you know, at least demo quality. So the CFX is used to input multiple mics and instruments. We need six channels.

Does that help?

Keith