Post by schmalzy on Dec 21, 2016 9:43:50 GMT -6
Hey, guys!
I'm having some weird problems with a couple pieces of my gear and I can't hunt them down. They all seem to be, literally, at the whims of the universe. My room is on an electrical breaker that it shares only with other portions of the basement of my house and, when the studio is in use, nothing else in the basement is in use.
I have a less-than-a-year-old mic pre whose output level will swing wildly while it's receiving a steady signal - both in the line level input and the microphone input. I also have its brother - literally the next one off the production line - that doesn't do the same thing. Switching cables, etc. does nothing to change the problem - it always follows the malfunctioning preamp.
If you want to see what it's doing, take a peek at this video. It's a cell phone video of the Focusrite Mix Control software monitoring the input level from the two identical preamps. They were getting line level signal. drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzugr8cD5X_MdVVkTVhNVzFOY2c
I also have a third, not-upgraded version of the same preamp that gives me weird static noise at intermittent intervals. I haven't changed the setup but it was giving me unusable bursts of noise when mic'ing a snare drum on Friday but clean signal on Sunday (and Monday and yesterday) when I went to troubleshoot it.
I live in North Dakota, USA where we have some really dry air in the winter sometimes. Does this stuff sound like it could be a humidity problem? I don't think that's the problem but I also can't figure out what's different day-to-day in my studio that could cause intermittent problems like this.
Any other ideas for what could be causing these problems?
Thanks for any help you guys can lend and sorry for the long post!
I'm having some weird problems with a couple pieces of my gear and I can't hunt them down. They all seem to be, literally, at the whims of the universe. My room is on an electrical breaker that it shares only with other portions of the basement of my house and, when the studio is in use, nothing else in the basement is in use.
I have a less-than-a-year-old mic pre whose output level will swing wildly while it's receiving a steady signal - both in the line level input and the microphone input. I also have its brother - literally the next one off the production line - that doesn't do the same thing. Switching cables, etc. does nothing to change the problem - it always follows the malfunctioning preamp.
If you want to see what it's doing, take a peek at this video. It's a cell phone video of the Focusrite Mix Control software monitoring the input level from the two identical preamps. They were getting line level signal. drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzugr8cD5X_MdVVkTVhNVzFOY2c
I also have a third, not-upgraded version of the same preamp that gives me weird static noise at intermittent intervals. I haven't changed the setup but it was giving me unusable bursts of noise when mic'ing a snare drum on Friday but clean signal on Sunday (and Monday and yesterday) when I went to troubleshoot it.
I live in North Dakota, USA where we have some really dry air in the winter sometimes. Does this stuff sound like it could be a humidity problem? I don't think that's the problem but I also can't figure out what's different day-to-day in my studio that could cause intermittent problems like this.
Any other ideas for what could be causing these problems?
Thanks for any help you guys can lend and sorry for the long post!
