Recording Issue

[coreycharron]

Hey, I have a mxl 4000 microphone a presonus audio box cool edit pro 2.1 and a laptop. IUt works fine on my computer but on my laptop when i record it is so staticky you cant hear my words and skips out. Any suggestions?

 

[Chili]

Hey, I have a mxl 4000 microphone a presonus audio box cool edit pro 2.1 and a laptop. IUt works fine on my computer but on my laptop when i record it is so staticky you cant hear my words and skips out. Any suggestions?

Is that a USB device? if so, maybe the usb port cannot supply enough power to drive the interface. I recently read somewhere on here that that is the case with some Macs.

 

[Melvin McSnatch]

<-- PC User. Explain "Staticky". Humming? Distorting?

If it's humming- Goodluck. Finding a hum is not easy. Could be a 60Hz sine buzz in your computer, the cables, or the coolbox. Could be EMF disturbance. Mics can be sensitive to that, that's why people believe you can find ghosts by using a microphone (miking near wiring is the lamest ghost detection scheme ever).

If it's distorting - Adjust the volume control on your computer operating system, you should have to go into (on windows) volume control>options>properties>recording>mixer device>(select your usb device) and turn the level down.

Your USB device should be at as high a level as it can before it distorts, then adjust your computer input volume to compensate, it usually goes very low.

Read more on Gain Staging.

Or it could be literally "staticky", in which case I have no idea. But probably incorrect gain staging or 60Hz humm. I get that ony my laptop occasionally.