Power conditioners for analog recording?

[hungovermorning]

I know the real solution is to redo the wiring in the house (and I take out the florescent lights when I'm tracking), but I'm not about to do my landlady that favor. So what I'm looking for is an effective band-aid not for a ton of money. So what works for analog (those computer surge strips are neat but only for computer) cleaning up power a bit? All the searches I've done just tell me what sucks. Remember this is for a prosumer studio, not one of those classy $60 per hour with a pool table type places. Thanks!

 

[Dr ZEE]

First of all - I have no clue
Second. Question: do you actually experience any problems which leads to believe that you need to do something about "power conditiong" in your situation.?
In my so-call studio I have the whole punch of plastic things all over the place. I also have two NSI PDU915L power distribution reck units. They have HUGE word "PROFESSIONAL" printed in all capitals on the fron panel. They must be great then, I suppose heh heh. They probably do nothing, except for displaying their titles. They are convinient, that's for sure and provide a nice one-button switch to power on/off a set of gear all at once.
Now, I have drain system pump behind the wall, and when it "does its thing" the lights are dimming for a second and a half or so. I just live with this "phenomena". Also I don't recall anything serious bad happening during recording/playing. Maybe I just never noticed.
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ok, hungovermorning , I am just bumping up your question post. Maybe somebody else here can help or give you some idea or two.

 

[The Ghost of FM]

hungovermorning,

There are devices out there called "sniffers" that can be plugged into any outlet or power bar and they can give you an audible and in some cases, a numeric indicator of just how noisy your juice is.

http://www.musicdirect.com/products/detail.asp?sku=AAPSNIFF

I work in a home theater retail shop and one of our sales reps from a company that offers Panamax and a few other brands of power-bars with filtering and power conditioning had one of these devices and brought it in to show us the before and after differences with the sniffer plugged into the bar verses plugged into the raw outlet. I was amazed to discover just how little noise reduction most of these semi-exotic power-bars actually do to reduce the junk in our AC in the store as we have florescent lighting and are next door to a tanning salon which is loaded with them on the tanning beds.

Making use of the star grounding method is your only hope and that means running everything in your studio off of one outlet in the room and branching off from that to feed all of your gear to avoid ground loops which is the number one reason for excessive noise in any sound set up.

Cheers!