Noise with my fostex MR8

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Hey everyone,

I recently put together a recording studio and I can hear a lot of noise on my headphones. I use a fostex MR8, AKG 200 mic, don't have a mic preamp yet. Now even when I disconnet the mic the noise-lots of shhhhhhh-is still there so I convinced its not the mic but I have no idea what it is. Any reply will be highly appreciated.
 
cleans1 said:
Hey everyone,

I recently put together a recording studio and I can hear a lot of noise on my headphones. I use a fostex MR8, AKG 200 mic, don't have a mic preamp yet. Now even when I disconnet the mic the noise-lots of shhhhhhh-is still there so I convinced its not the mic but I have no idea what it is. Any reply will be highly appreciated.
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Someone else asked this question and found out later on that they had the little switch in the back set to "guitar" instead of "line in/mic".

Barring that, it could be any number of things. The pre amps on the MR-8 are really weak, so if you turn your trim knob up, you will get a lot of noise. A good way to get around this is to run your mics through a decent mixer or an outboard pre amp and leave the trim knobs turned all the way down.
 
Another thing it could be...depending upon how old the unit is. The first ones that came out had a glitch with the headphone output, all you had to do was re-boot it.

bd
 
A suggestion about the mixer idea, I went that route until I got a DMP3 (mic preamp) and now I find i rarely use my extra-crappy behringer mixer when i can use the preamp instead.

You might want to go that route, the preamp works for me for about 80% of the things i would use the mixer for, and does it better. The rest I could potentially work around, but i would throw out the cheap mixer in a second over the cheap (but very decent) DMP3.

Daav
 
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