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drowningout
New member
My band is trying to record a few songs just for fun. We've been getting a hissing air type sound when we play back what we've recorded. Any ideas about how to get rid of this?
mattr
Resident moody teenager
Some idea of your recording chain would be handy 
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drowningout
New member
We're using a mackie mixer into an m audio thing with 2 inputs and then that goes into my laptop
Dogbreath
Im an ex-spurt
The hissing air sound may be from input levels (trim) set too high. Did you hear this when you were tracking the instruments or just during playback?
What were the rms and peak levels when you were tracking everything?
Not sure if this is it the problem but it's a starting place.
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What were the rms and peak levels when you were tracking everything?
Not sure if this is it the problem but it's a starting place.
???
SouthSIDE Glen
independentrecording.net
Lots of potential causes, alone or in combination:
- Noise in the room from HVAC, refrigerator, PC fan, etc.
- Bad gain structure (i.e. having the levels at one or more stage of your recording chain set too high.) This could be anywhere, but the key points in your chain would be the mic pres (input trim) on your mixer, the input gain on your m-Audio, and the input gain on your laptop software. Don't over-crank anything. Keep things running around 0VU on the analog side and around -18 to -6dBFS on the digital side. Don't try to get everything as close to digital zero as possible. EDIT: Oops, Dogbreath beat me to this one
.- You have very good ears and are simply hearing the fact that the Mackie and the m-Audio are entry-level gear and do have higher noise levels than more expensive gear.
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Dani Pace
New member
Try backing off on your input gain (trim) and reduce the treble. Either or both of these will cause a hiss type of noise.