Whistling And Hiss

[LUCKY-B]

I AM GETTING A HIGH PITCHED WHISTLING AND HISSING NOISE
ON n-track, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NOTHING CONNECTED TO THE INPUT.
I TRIED RECORDING IT, AND ON PLAYBACK THERE WAS THE NOISE.
ANY SUGGESTIONS?

 

[sae]

if you have a cheap ass sound card you'll have this problem

 

[Toker41]

I have to second that. A bit more softly, perhaps.....Yes I would start with the sound card. What card are you using?

 

[sae]

sorry, I was in a bad mood

 

[Toker41]

Comes from dealing with newbies....hehe.

 

[sae]

oh ya, never noticed that....one post!

 

[Toker41]

This one makes 200!!!
What's next after Senior?

 

[sae]

I dunno

 

[TimOBrien]

Go into your Windows Audio mixer and mute everything EXCEPT the port you want your input to record from. (in other words, uncheck all the other boxes like digital input, cd-rom, mic-in, etc.)

You only want to record from your line-in, never the mic-in, too.

 

[LUCKY-B]

thanks

thanks for all the help

 

[Anthropod01]

RE line-in and mic-in

As to only recording via "line-in" versus "microphone-in", I don't think you can simply plug a microphone into the line in jack--you need to have a pre-amp or other conditioning between a mike and the line-in to get the proper level. Line-in assumes a standard impedance and level (200 mv, I think) which is not normally provided by simply a direct microphone connection, without an intervening mixer/preamp (one of the excellent articles at homerecording.com advises "only line-out to line-in", which is a good rule of thumb).

Dunno if this is applicable here, but thought I should mention it--if you are trying to record with a microphone without a preamp/mixer device you really have no choice but to go "mic-in." And I suppose that may be your point, i.e., "suffer the hiss of an outrageous fortune".