Maybe a dryer sheet will help?

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I'm running a cheesy mic into a SBLive! drive, recording acoustic guitar. Every time a note is played, there's a staticy scratchy noise that gets recorded too. It only occurs on playback. I've tried moving the mic around the room, sitting at different positions relative to the mic, turning every electrical appliance in the house except the PC, fiddling with the mic input knob and all faders on the digital mixer. Nothing I did made any difference.

I recorded the same thing under the same circumstances two days ago with good result, so I know this can be fixed somehow.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 550 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM, Sound blaster platinum with live drive. Any ideas?

Please don't tell me to buy something that costs more than $10 because I'm on a limited fixed income (although some day I may be doing better).

TIA
Denis
 
SPINSTERWUN said:
You might get a better response by posting this in the microphone forum.

:D

peace out ...

spin
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You're probably right... I guess that because I used Sound Forge to record, that somehow the problem might be to do with SF. I posted that when I was really tired... good excuse, eh?

As it turned out, the problem was with play back. RF interference? Alien abductions? The answer lies DUNH DUNH DUNH... in the great unkown!

Thanks for your suggestion
Denis
 
You speak weird words man... There is a problem scratchy noise that gets recorded too but only occurs on playback?? It occurs when you record it, and you'll hear it too at playback, or it only occurs at playback, so it is not recorded, but you can't say both?? ;)

The problem sounds to me like you have some digital distortion... Try playing it back at a lower level, or recording at a lower level (if the distortion is recorded, too high mic input)...
 
Or it could be the connections of your sound card or ...

DUHN, DA, DUH, DUHNT......your patch cable. :D

just a few added suggstions


peace

spin
 
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