Static interference

[phoix]

I recently bought a new microphone and have it plugged into a mic pre-amp and then from the mic pre-amp to the line2/mic2 front panel on my X-Fi Fatal1ty soundcard.

Now when the mic is enabled i get this horrible static when it is meant to be silent... anyone know why this is? and/or how i can make the silence clean with no static.

Thanks in advance,
Phoix

 

[bennychico11]

when you enable the mic on the X-Fi?
leave it on line. If you're going through an external preamp before you plug into the X-Fi, you want to put the setting of the X-Fi to line