tascam cd-rw750 background hum??

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Hi folks, new to all this so be patient!! I have a Tascam cdrw-750 in my rehearsal room with 2 pzm wall mounted mics into it. The recorded music is there.. but there is a constant background hum present... any ideas on the possible cause and how to rectify it?
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wow! pzm mics? Aren't those typically used for conference rooms or maybe even surveillance?

Since they are mounted to your walls, they could be picking up 60Hz or even plumbing.. vibrations from furnace fans, exhast fans... or to state the obvious, you might have a bad cord, presuming you're using coax.

I'd try a normal mic & see if you still have the problem
 
Yeah, try the 'real' mic, and if that still doesn't work another idea might be to get an outboard EQ and experiment with it to see what frequency that hum is and try to cut it out? That might affect the sound of what you're recording though, but it might work. I might also be wrong, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Wall-mounted? Mic positioning is extremely important. You could be picking up all the things bunt posted about above, you could be picking up a neighbors ceiling or box fan, and since they're mounted to the wall they can pick up any amount of vibration in and outside your home. You could also have a grounding issue in the electrical system in your home or inside the device itself and those can be expensive to have fixed. I would go with some of the above advice and pick up some mics that you can move around preferably with shockmounts (you don't have to have them, but they help a great deal) and a preamp thats not attached directly to the innards of your recording device.

Try to borrow a preamp from someone and see if the buzz is still there. Switch cables just to try it out, may be a grounding issue in the cable. Unmount the mics from the walls and place them on the floor or on a stand of some kind to see if that helps. The EQ suggestion is a last resort if you absolutely can't fix the problem with any of the aforementioned solutions.

Usually try the cheaper suggestions first. Chances are it really is a simple problem with a simple solution.

Good luck with the buzz, I know how annoying it can be.
 
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