power conditioner to solve popping?

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i noticed some very occasional popping coming through a live recording using two condensers. everything was hooked up to the sound guy's power strip and i'm thinking the phantom power wasn't constant enough. does this make sense? would a power conditioner solve this problem in the future?
 
Not if the pop is somebody getting water from a refridgerator door. :)

Turn off reefers, freezers, and HVAC if you can. Motors cycling on and off cause line noise. Higher-end regulated voltage supplies with torroidal isolating transformers and power conditioning MIGHT be able to handle noise of that order. Certainly regulated/clean power is always good to have available. ;)

Bummer is a Furman AR-15 or the equivalent is about $475US. :eek:

A new 50amp Single-phase 240v> two 120v/25amp isolating transformer probably runs in the $1500-2000US range.

Bottom line is legitimately clean power ain't cheap.
 
A good place to find those expensive line conditioners is from computer outlet/liquidation/surplus stores. The ones that have huge wearhouses of old servers and monitors.
I found a pretty nice power conditioner at a place called Re-Pc in Sea-Tac Washington. It's a TrippLite LCR2400, I got it for $50, and they had a couple other ones at the time too. They also had a couple UPS's as well.
 
damn... i was hoping to just get something cheap (like a furman m8l)

i recorded in a bar and the sound guy was running his rack into a cheap power strip (which i was also unfortunately plugged into). there was one point before the recording started that i lost power to all my equipment... i thought that the switch accidently got tripped... but from the way it's looking, the power just wasn't stable enough to begin with.

no question... i'm gonna have to make sure to have my own circuit next time.
 
Could be...maybe not

Alot of times pops can be related to RF generated noise. Like what was said above with reefers or other appliances with motors. A bad ground on a circuit could also cause a "pop". There's alot of possible causes and perhaps if you could describe the "pop" i.e. loud, quiet, low-end, high end crackle, peak driven, maybe we could give you a closer answer.
 
thank you for all your responses... i put a sample online. i figured it'd be easier if you just heard it than for me to try and explain it.

 
xcrazymx said:
thank you for all your responses... i put a sample online. i figured it'd be easier if you just heard it than for me to try and explain it.

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I always check the outlets at the venues I work using a three-prong tester. If the wiring is really messed up, I won't hook up my equipment. I also use a voltage regulator and haven't had any problems. The inexpensive power conditioners I've used didn't seem to do much of anything.
 
What kind of regulator did you get and how much did you pay?
 
One thing I got to solve my problems at my old place (crappy wiring) was a Juice Goose Magna Power 300R.Its a way heavy duty power conditioner. I dont know if they still make them. It wasnt cheap either, but it worked.
 
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