My head phones are driving me nuts!

[washburn21]

My head phones pick up too much feed back. The more the volume goes up, the more the feed back. Sometimes I can even faintly hear a radio station. I live on a hill, would that have anything to do with it? (Im just trying to figure out how to get rid of the feed back) Any suggestions comments please help!!

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Washburn:

Like what are your cans hooked up to? Do you have open back or closed back cans.

Your post is kind of ambiguous as it lacks information as to what you are doing with what kind of cans and what kind of gear.

I quit reading minds when I retired from teaching.

Green Hornet

 

[washburn21]

Yo Washburn:

Like what are your cans hooked up to? Do you have open back or closed back cans.


The headphones I have are some cheap sony dynamic headphones. (this may be the whole problem to begin with)

Iam just getting into music recording, so these are what I have to work with for the time being. When I plug them into my compter, the headphones pick up a radio station somehow. It's real faint, but enough to drive me nuts when Im trying to listen to what I have recorded. Is there way to get rid of the feed back?

Im not sure what you mean by open back or closed back? What's the difference?
Hopefully that made a little more since! thanks.
---->washburn21

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Washburn:

Open back cans are for listening but not for recording usually. If a singer wears open back cans and gets near a sensitive mic, what the singer hears, MUSIC, in the cans can bleed off into the mic causing hum and a bad track.

Closed cans have solid plastic over the back and do not bleed as easily into a sensitive mic and are used in recording as well as just listening to music.

Why you are picking up a radio station via your PC and cans may not be the fault of the cans. I remember reading about people who had fillings put in their teeth and the fillings picked up radio signals -- yeow!

Your problem may have something to do with the shielding of your PC or your recording software -- I'm not sure but someone on this site should be able to figure it out.

Green Hornet

 

[washburn21]

yeah it's a mystery, maybe my headphones are just cursed! Thanks for the reply.. Green Hornet

Washburn21

 

[Freudian Slip]

Come on guys!! didn't you read the post????

You can't record on a hill!!!


F.S.


PS But really there are so many things that could cause your problem it is hard to say with out a complete lay out of every thing you are using and how it's hooked together, and even then you may just have to punt.

 

[washburn21]

you can't record on a hill!!!

LOL ... yeah maybe your right about the hill Freudian.

I mentioned that because I was thinking maybe living on a hill causes my headphones to pick up static ??
anyway-
I use my head phones for both my cd player, and my computer. They're fine when plugged into my cd player, but as soon as I plug them into my computer, I can hear static. Like I mentioned before, it gets louder as the volume goes up.

Does anyone know of a company that makes headphones guaranteed not to pick up static? ? let me know if there is.

 

[Freudian Slip]

Well I can tell you this for sure.. Headphones don't produce static (unless you count distortion from over driving them).

My guess is that you have issues with your sound card. I will also guess you are using a stock soundcard??? I could be wrong but, Something is amplifying your static (your sound card) Also something with poor shielding is letting the static in (also could be your sound card). I think this is a seperate issue from bleed through but, the bleed through could cause it to amplify in a feed back loop.

Bleed through normaly means you can hear the tracks you are playing back while recording on the track you are recording. This can result in feed back, if you are miking a audible sound source (amp with a mic) you can shut down the monitoring of the track you are recording to avoid an feed back loop.

It sounds to me like you have two seperate problems perhaps...
1: RF interference and static caused by poor equipment, a power source problem, and or a cabling problem
2: Your head phones are just as loud to others in the room weather they are on someones head or not??? also you could have a gain problem with your microphone as a contributing factor.

It is also possible that your headphone amp is feeding back internaly on your mic preamp due to poor design and that the headphones and mic push it over the edge.

Just a couple of ideas.

Later

F.S.