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brendanmcd22
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I have been experiencing a problem with a crackling sound coming from my monitors during playback in Logic or when I listen to music on itunes/youtube/etc.
Here is my setup:
Soundcraft M8 Analog mixer->Presonus Firestudio->Macbook Pro 13" 2.26GHz processor->Krk Rokit 6 powered monitors. Everything except the computer is plugged into a Furman m-8x2 power conditioner. The power conditioner is plugged into the wall. I have 2 Rapco balanced cables going from the main outs on the Firestudio to the balanced trs jacks on the monitors. The monitors are sitting on styrofoam cutouts (my ghetto version of mopads I guess lol). I always turn the power conditioner on first, then the monitors. I bought everything new this summer but just set it up a couple weeks ago except for my Firestudio (got it almost 2 years ago but haven't used it a ton).
I have tried everything I can think of to eliminate the noise....using different outputs on the Firestudio, removing the styrofoam, trying new cables, plugging the monitors into a different power source, plugging the power conditioner into different outlets and nothing seems to eliminate this crackling noise. When I power everything up and put music on, it sounds fine for about 10 minutes, then the crackling comes in. If I turn the system off and restart everything then essentially the same thing happens again. What is interesting is that I was using my friend's Bx8a monitors to mix a project last year and had this similar problem, although not as bad as now. I was still using the same Firestudio then. He still has the monitors and they work fine, never had any problems going through his mixer. That would lead me to believe that something is wrong with the outputs on the Firestudio, but it would be quite strange for all 8 inputs to work flawlessly and all 10 outputs to be problematic.
Anybody out there have any idea what the problem may be?
Here is my setup:
Soundcraft M8 Analog mixer->Presonus Firestudio->Macbook Pro 13" 2.26GHz processor->Krk Rokit 6 powered monitors. Everything except the computer is plugged into a Furman m-8x2 power conditioner. The power conditioner is plugged into the wall. I have 2 Rapco balanced cables going from the main outs on the Firestudio to the balanced trs jacks on the monitors. The monitors are sitting on styrofoam cutouts (my ghetto version of mopads I guess lol). I always turn the power conditioner on first, then the monitors. I bought everything new this summer but just set it up a couple weeks ago except for my Firestudio (got it almost 2 years ago but haven't used it a ton).
I have tried everything I can think of to eliminate the noise....using different outputs on the Firestudio, removing the styrofoam, trying new cables, plugging the monitors into a different power source, plugging the power conditioner into different outlets and nothing seems to eliminate this crackling noise. When I power everything up and put music on, it sounds fine for about 10 minutes, then the crackling comes in. If I turn the system off and restart everything then essentially the same thing happens again. What is interesting is that I was using my friend's Bx8a monitors to mix a project last year and had this similar problem, although not as bad as now. I was still using the same Firestudio then. He still has the monitors and they work fine, never had any problems going through his mixer. That would lead me to believe that something is wrong with the outputs on the Firestudio, but it would be quite strange for all 8 inputs to work flawlessly and all 10 outputs to be problematic.
Anybody out there have any idea what the problem may be?