*Frustration Factor 5*, noise in Cubase Studio 4!

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Ahoy,

I am just getting started, but have run into some hair-wrenchingly frustrating issues!

I am currently running a brand spanking version of cubase studio 4 on a reliable PC, recording via a yamaha MW10 usb mixer. There are currently no specific motherboard drivers installed, as I recenty formatted and re-installed windows. I haveinstalled the latest ASIO driver for the MW10 mixer.

NOW, the problem.

When I monitor or record in cubase, I get a low level, very high pitched noise, a relatively clear tone around 15k but with noise associated. It is doing my head in. I have tried turning OFF all windows sound, changing USB port evening changing the mixer power supply, but the sound is still there!

Please...HELP ME!!!!

Desmond
 
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Mystical

i have heard of such noises and they are usually related to bad electronic circuits and some such and as such by means.

so where do your monitors come out of, the Mixer obviously?

so is there any level indication of signal on the mixer?


I’d get those windows drivers fixed up as your computer will just really function at half pace anyhow if you don't....specifically the IDE controllers if you are using them and or the serial ata drivers and other such little magic pieces of code.

at very least you will eliminate any issue there.

other than that check what you are recording with I’ve heard of the same Feq sound being transmitted from a webcam speaker or other lower than $30 Prcision Audio mics(sorry joke) also from bad electronics in a mixer.

other than that: it is simple….

it's the global liquidity crisis. (in a word) you are hearing.. the sounds of high frequency theoretical currency that doesn’t exist except in a bookkeeping transaction when you hear it you know that the Federal Reserve is pumping money into lonely and desperate credit houses..

it's the grinding of the cogs of our economies breaking teeth with out that liquidity lubrication..
 
See you started off well until you got to...

theblackBay said:
it's the global liquidity crisis. (in a word) you are hearing.. the sounds of high frequency theoretical currency that doesn’t exist except in a bookkeeping transaction when you hear it you know that the Federal Reserve is pumping money into lonely and desperate credit houses..

it's the grinding of the cogs of our economies breaking teeth with out that liquidity lubrication..
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Change the record already. It's not even relevant to the guys problem.

The problem might be related to grounding. Does the sound change somehow while something is loading? Can you hear a wierd chirp when you for example scroll? Does it seem like you can hear the computer working? What soundcard are you using?

I would agree with theblackBay about getting those drivers installed though.
 
legion..!

let me explain:

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unhappy northrock customers complaining about 15k low level noise.

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the story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6996136.stm

so much for that "i don't care about the US i don't live there" i suppose?
 
The Northern Rock issue is to do with the fact that they do business by borrowing money to lend money. Most of the international banks have tightened up on this however, meaning they haven't been able to borrow the most recent lump. Therefore they had to borrow money from the bank of England. This in turn led to the media causing hysteria, making people think that Northern Rock is about to go into liquidation because they had to borrow money, when in fact this is just how they do their business. All the money they have lent is being paid back to them, so no problem there. More than likely itmeans they just won't be able to lend anymore money for a while. Of course that isn't the case because they successfully borrowed from the bank of England.

I walk past that horde of people everyday. Most of them have just fallen for the hysteria.

all this in turn is obviously going to mean a drop in share value as people sell their shares for fear of liquidation. And now that that has caued the share value to drop, more people are selling their shares, causing a further drop.

I used to have a mortgage with Northern Rock. And bloody good they were to. They always provided a good service and were always very helpful. I remortgaged back in March because I wanted to change from a variable mortgage to a fixed mortgage, and stay on an interest only mortgage for a further 2 years and I got a better deal elsewhere.

Now, while I admit that the graph you posted shows a little to much in the 'June' frequency, or perhaps not enough in the 'September' frequency, I still don't see how it has any relevance to computer noise. You may find such topics of conversation more welcome in the cave, or perhaps www.economy.com/bbs

And I never said that I didn't care because I didn't live in the US. I said I didn't care about the shitty intricacies of the world because I'm too busy trying to get by each day or my own life without flipping out.
 
Right there with you Legion

Back to the noise ........

check any cables also.......
 
Cheers!

Very strange... I was listening to AM radio this morning, very low broadcast quality but long range etc..etc... I swear I was hearing the same quality of noise in the broadcast! Perhaps you are right, this is a "global phenomenon". SELL SELL SELL!!!
 
Oh also

do a cursory check for any lost Am radio's or radio stations either inside your house or your mixing desk......

i had the most embarrassing event occur to me last week i could hear this static and upon looking around i opened the walk in wardrobe and there was a whole 1929 BBC broadcast going on... the whole lot....it was some sort of radio theater. i had no idea how they got there maybe it's the new wallpaper.

Obviously some sort of alternate dimension.... so check for those as well.

Oh and SELL. indeed. i thought you already had sold?

if you did hear this on AM, i'd say apart from above it might be the actual mixer or an unearthed connection to or from the mixer.
 
That would make sense, except the mixer provided crystal clear A/D D/A conversion when recording onto a mac!

Oh woe is me. I will install the drivers this evening, and see if that fixes the problem. If not I will yell a brief warning to any hapless soul wandering below my window...
 
Ok

I just looked up the product your talking about:

ok so this is taking Analogue signal and converting it to Digital then sending that down the USB.

ok first questions:

you will need USB 2.0 so i hope your PC has that. ALSO you will need the USB 2.0 Drivers functioning.

USB 1.1 ------ = 12 Mbit per second
USB 2.0 ------ = 490 Mbit per second
Firewire -------= 470 Mbit per second

see the difference here? now, you might not know what a Megabit per second is but you now know the difference is large.

so get them drivers going and make sure you have USB2.0

if it was working fine on the mac this could be your issue right here.

Sorry I didn’t mention it earlier I glazed over the whole AD/DA USB thing.

i thought it was a straight analouge.
 
Tit yeah!

That sounds more like it. That could well be the problem, makes sense too, as we were trying to transfer some data via usb AFTER the format, and 800mb was going to take about 12 hours, haha! Also when monitoring live the latency is something horrific like 300ms. hmmmmmm, interesting.....

I suspect that the motherboard has native support of usb 1.1, i will get the usb 2.0 going ASAP!

Will let you know if it works. Of course now I am confident it will it is doomed to fail!

Peace...
 
If your motherboard is USB1.0

you can't upgrade those ports , but you can just buy a PCI USB 2.0 card

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cheap.

yes that could be the problem indeed, sounds like it anyhow!

great guns, hope you get it fixed.
peace.
 
On a lot of motherboards you need to install the USB2.0 drivers to get full 2.0 support. So it's worth a try.
 
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