Fostex DMT 8 - Hard disk noise to headphones output

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Hello everybody!

First post here, as I ran into some "problems".

I recently got Fostex DMT 8 (ver. 2, with larger capacity hard disk) to create some music in my DAWless home "studio". Why DAWless? Just because of nostalgic reasons and because I like tactile part of making music.

There is something that bothers me with the machine and I was not able to solve the problem with the help of the Google.

I am almost exclusively using my headphones during recording/mixing, as I live in an appartment building and work on my music during the evening/night. When I plug my headphones into the output jack, I get the constant high pitch noise from the spinning hard disk. It is not loud, but it is annoying. How did I determine it comes from the hard disk? Simply, when I turn on the machine, with headphones on, I can hear the hard disk acceleration as the noise frequency change, until hard disk reaches full speed.

Now, I tested this on other outputs (direct out, monitors, aux send) and this noise is present only on the headphones output. Also, it is not recorded into any of the tracks, nor anything changes if I change the signal routing.

Did anybody with DMT 8 encounter such a problem? Is there easy solution to this?

Looking forward to any feedback!

Rob
 
if you have a long cable , you can even put the hdd far away from recording location ... but one has to look up, how far the EIDE-ATA protocol does aloud a connection before getting eventual delays ... i can sympathize with yr situation, there is indeed a high pitch noise coming from the hdd of the DMT8 VL of mine too ... you know, you can use 2.5 inch hdd with the dmt8VL, not sure about the dmt8, as this is older than the more recent dmt8VL ... but i think that would even be a better solution, no ? 2.5 inch ata ide hdd , together with a converter ... r definitely more silent, check youtube

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Did anybody with DMT 8 encounter such a problem? Is there easy solution to this?

Looking forward to any feedback!
You could try using a IDE to SSD adapter- making sure you have a cf card formatted with fat 16 instead of fat 32 - that might cut the noise out altogether.
 
You could try using a IDE to SSD adapter- making sure you have a cf card formatted with fat 16 instead of fat 32 - that might cut the noise out altogether.
i think the dude in the video & others tried with cf & sd, it formats, but then is in initialisation(format) limbo for ever




IDE to SSD & IDE SSD's could work, but i believe the dmt8 had a practical usable limit reported ≈ 8.4 GB unless you’re on a later supporting firmware, then it's 30 Gb max with version 2 (upgraded firmware) so yeah 16 / 32 Gb could be worthwhile ...

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/approved-hard-drive-list-for-fostex-dmt8-dmt8vl-d80/
 
i think the dude in the video & others tried with cf & sd, it formats, but then is in initialisation(format) limbo for ever




IDE to SSD & IDE SSD's could work, but i believe the dmt8 had a practical usable limit reported ≈ 8.4 GB unless you’re on a later supporting firmware, then it's 30 Gb max with version 2 (upgraded firmware) so yeah 16 / 32 Gb could be worthwhile ...

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/approved-hard-drive-list-for-fostex-dmt8-dmt8vl-d80/

No comments except to say people who don’t talk through their video are stupid.
 
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