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Original Message 1/25 18-Sep-02 @ 10:15 AM - ho-hum

bedwyr

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this thread isn't a crass comment on women with less than desirable personal hygine, but i've got an annoying hum.

I've got a rode ntk going through a focusrite trakmaster into the patch bay (behringer) at +4 then out into my terratec ews88mt soundcard, with the input selected at +4. I know valves are a little noisy, and the hum only bothers when i have to crank the gain up but should there be _any_ hum?

There was a huge hum at one point and a horribly thin sound from the mic, but i resoldered the xlr and it was better. Shall i just make up a new lead?

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Message 2/25 18-Sep-02 @ 12:28 PM - RE: ho-hum

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ground loop? my art tube is dead quiet.

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Message 3/25 18-Sep-02 @ 12:35 PM - RE: ho-hum

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you gotta try a new lead then if the soldering made a difference.

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Message 4/25 18-Sep-02 @ 01:29 PM - RE: ho-hum

bedwyr

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i just cut the lead to a short 2 foot, and it's still there, it's around 300 - 500 hz. bollocks, the wiring on the lead works going from the rode's transformer to the trackmaster, but if i hook up my dynamic to the tracskmaster with the same lead i get no signal at all.

so, xlr wiring here i come, rode says pin 2 hot pin 3 cold.

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Message 5/25 18-Sep-02 @ 01:50 PM - RE: ho-hum

bedwyr

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the wiring's ok, fuck it, we'll have to live with it for today :>

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Message 6/25 18-Sep-02 @ 05:06 PM - RE: ho-hum

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sounds like a Uk/USA hot pin mixup to me then ?

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Message 7/25 18-Sep-02 @ 05:25 PM Edit: 18-Sep-02 | 05:28 PM - RE: ho-hum

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well, i swapped pins 2 & 3, and the same result, noise with the rode and no signal from the dynamic. very frusrating.

another thing i did was plug the xlr from the rode's transformer into my phonic mixer, the noise was there, but if you went past a certain gain it disappeared then appeared again when you cranked it more. doesn't make sense to me at all.

i might take it in to digital village and run it through their trakmaster, see what happens.

xoxos, what sort of gain do you have to push to get a good signal with your rode? my input gain is about 36+db on the preamp, which is where the noise starts to become annoying.

and i'm not going through the patchbay any more, so it's mic > preamp > soundcard. i've tried pluging the transformer in different sockets, some are noisier than others. and the trakmaster is nice and quiet on it's own.

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Message 8/25 18-Sep-02 @ 05:44 PM - RE: ho-hum

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I thought this was a thread about a Ms Dynamite track.

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Message 9/25 18-Sep-02 @ 06:22 PM - RE: ho-hum

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"into the patch bay (behringer)"

I would bet that's your problem. Have you gone directy into the computer from your pre? Is your patchbay balanced? Is the terratec?

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Message 10/25 18-Sep-02 @ 07:51 PM - RE: ho-hum

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read the thread psy! ;) yeah i'm going straight to the soundcard from the pre, which has unbalanced -10 going into unbalanced -10 on the terratec. i get the same problem going if i go straight to the little mixer i've got.

i'm thinking either the transformer or the mic itself is a bit shagged. still under warranty though

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