Audio Recording

[MrAriel]

When i record some audio from my microphone i get a little hiss. I have now a little mixer connected to line-in.
When i try to record something, i get a little hiss in the record.
i put a little piece of sound in

It's not recorded with the microphone, its recorded directly connected to the mixer, i used a yamaha psr-292 to record it. Listen to the little hiss.

I use a creative vibra16pnp.. How i can reduce this hiss?

 

[Track Rat]

Sorry my friend, I can't find your sample. The link goes to a Panama1 page but I don't see the tune. But I have a few questions. Where is the earliest spot in the recording chain can you hear the hiss?

 

[MrAriel]

Sorry. I mispelled the url
Can you re do your question? i can't understand you

 

[Track Rat]

What I mean is where is the first place you think you hear the hiss? Only on the recording? At the output of the keyboard? You have a mixer in the chain. If you're recording the keyboard direct, why don't you plug the keyboard directly into the soundcard and bypass the mixer. Every active device you go through is going to introduce noise. On your soundcard, is that a consumer grade card as opposed to something that's more of a dedicated recording card? If it is, make sure that you have only the line input enabled and any other devices (mic in, TAD in, CD in, etc) are muted as they can contribute to noise.

 

[chessrock]

Wow man, that's some great stuff. Do you think you could give me some lessons and teach me how to play that?


I didn't hear the hiss, though.

 

[chessrock]

Oh wait.

I just cranked my speakers up as loud as they could possibly go and played that sample again . . .

. . . and I could definitely hear some hiss this time.

 

[RD423]

So are you saying that you have your mic hooked up to a mixing board and then you are running your mixing board into your line in on your computer

If the answer is yes

then that is your problem because I use to do the same thing and the only way you won't have hiss in your recording that way is to turn your Line Input volume down low and I mean low on your mixer and also turn your mic volume down low. I know this because I had the same problem whenever I used to do that

 

[MrAriel]

MrAriel

TrackRat

I hear the hiss when i record in the computer.
When i bypass the mixer, i get the same hiss when i'm recording.
I have all other devices muted.

RD423:

What do you mean with "Line Input volume down"? It's in the windows mixer?
I'll try that...

Any other suggestions.. are welcome

 

[Track Rat]

Next question; what resolution are you recording at? 16 or 24 bits? 44.1, 48, 96KHz? Make sure it's not sot something like 8 bit/22KHz. It may well be (and it's starting to sound like) crappy A/D D/A converters in your soundcard. I wouldn't associate Creative and high quality recording personally.

 

[MrAriel]

Im recording at 16 bits, 44.1

 

[christiaan]

I haven't heard the sample yet because I'm at the office now where I don't have speakers attached to my computer. The creative vibra16pnp is an old ISA soundcard, right? I remember a friend of mine had one a couple of years ago. At this point I just think there is a limit to what you can expect from an old soundcard like that.

 

[MrAriel]

The vibra16pnp is old... but isn´t ISA.
Is PCI

I will try with the SBLive that i have in other computer.

Any comments are welcome

 

[christiaan]

The vibra16pnp is old... but isn´t ISA.
Is PCI

Ok, my bad. Won't matter (much) anyway.