getting rid of the humm/buzzing
getting rid of the humm/buzzing Posted on: 16.12.2009 by Nancey Teck not sure if this is the right place for this topic, so mods please move if this is inappropriate.i'm getting this humm/buzzing sound when i hit the record button on the audacity program. you can totaly hear through out the entire mix when the sounds are at a minimum. i have ran the noise removal effect on different parameters, and all that is doing is distorting the tunes really bad. right now i'm using a vcm100, akai mpd24, with a inspron quad core. how can get a proper recording? http://soundcloud.com/o_o-djendone-o-o/winter-mix-live-09-by-dj-endone | |
| Nancey Teck 19.12.2009 |
Originally Posted by sine143
nah, the humm only happens when i press record in audacity. if i am just mixing and not recording, everything is fine. i'm pretty sure my power spple setup is ok. i'm thing it might be the audio interface, so i'm going to try a better one. the reason being is that i'm using a cheap 30 dollar behringer interface(including shipping haha). i'll post back if that solves it. thanks every one. happy holidays! |
| Harold Jaras 19.12.2009 |
Originally Posted by end1
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| Nancey Teck 16.12.2009 | not sure if this is the right place for this topic, so mods please move if this is inappropriate. i'm getting this humm/buzzing sound when i hit the record button on the audacity program. you can totaly hear through out the entire mix when the sounds are at a minimum. i have ran the noise removal effect on different parameters, and all that is doing is distorting the tunes really bad. right now i'm using a vcm100, akai mpd24, with a inspron quad core. how can get a proper recording? http://soundcloud.com/o_o-djendone-o-o/winter-mix-live-09-by-dj-endone |
| Onie Sarandos 31.07.2010 | Nice. My guess is that the laptop mic will produce relatively crappy quality anyway, but am hopeful that a new, better cable will at least take out the humm/buzz for now. My next step was to try to connect my mixer to my soundcard and then to the laptop. Not sure if that would help or not. |
| Arline Lesica 31.07.2010 | I also had this problem and I noticed it only happened when I had my laptop plugged in. Turned out my laptop charging cable had a part of the insulation cable chopped off so that bare cable was visable. After I tried a new charging cord everything worked great. |
| Onie Sarandos 31.07.2010 | hmm...interesting...i know this thread is from like 6 months ago, and im not sure if you're still around or not, but I was having the same problem you described in this thread. I recorded a mix the other day, with a rca to 1/4 inch cable going from my "record out" on my denon mixer straight into my laptop's mic port, and used audacity to record the mix. I recorded my mix, but the quality wasn't great. The biggest problem was a humm/buzz in the background similar to what you described. I believe the first thing ill try is replacing the connecting cable like you did. Just to confirm, it was the cable from you mixer to your laptop that you replaced, right? and what kind of cable did you replace the old one with? thanks for any info |
| Nancey Teck 23.01.2010 | hi again, just wanted to post up that the humm/buzzing problem i was having has been solved. the problem was an old rca cable that was running to the sound card. i have replaced all my cables with some nice ones from monoprice.com. thanks for the help guys. |
| Nancey Teck 19.12.2009 |
Originally Posted by sine143
nah, the humm only happens when i press record in audacity. if i am just mixing and not recording, everything is fine. i'm pretty sure my power spple setup is ok. i'm thing it might be the audio interface, so i'm going to try a better one. the reason being is that i'm using a cheap 30 dollar behringer interface(including shipping haha). i'll post back if that solves it. thanks every one. happy holidays! |
| Al Henger 19.12.2009 | so, wait, you record whatever you do, and then if you play it back (without record button depressed) there is no hum? like, it only hums during recording, but not during the playback of that recording? If that is not the issue, and the the actual stuff you have recorded has the hum throughout, throw some eq on there and just try to cut the 60 hz band out. |
| Harold Jaras 19.12.2009 |
Originally Posted by end1
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| Nancey Teck 17.12.2009 | i am only getting the humm/buzzing sound when i hit the record button on audacity. if i am playing with out recording the sound is good with out the humm/buzz. i am also using one of those pictured above. it is connected to my power strip's three prong(my house is old and only has two prong outlets on the wall). then my cpu, monitor, amp is connected to the power strip. i'm starting to believe it could just be the audio interface(cheap $30 behringer). but i'm trying to test out all other options beore having to buy another better interface. this humm/buzz is going to haunt me till i get it solved. i don't even want to record anything till it is fixed. if you play the soundcloud track i put up you can hear it in the very first couple of seconds before the music covers it up. hey, thank you guys. |
| Harold Jaras 18.12.2009 | listen to examples of the "60 cycle hum" if you can find it online, and if that's what it sounds like, then it's a ground loop issue. basically it happens if two things that are grounded are connected together. there are cheap little inserts that you can buy that go between a 3-pin outlet plug (the big one on the bottom is the ground), and the wall, and they cut out the ground plug. like this: |
| ma7md hany 18.12.2009 | My tip would be bad sound interface. Input quality DOES matter. |
| juan garcia 17.12.2009 | no problem, i would try the things you can do to rearrange your power setup and see if that helps before going out and buying one of the those ground loop hum eliminators.....they often eliminate more then just the ground loop. |
| Nancey Teck 16.12.2009 | thanks guys! i did a search on ground loop and it turned up a ton of info. looks like i'll be diagnosing my setup tomorrow. thanks again! funny, if i only would have googled humm/buzzing. haha. who knew? |
| juan garcia 16.12.2009 | if its not a problem with the program or soundcard settings, then it is probably ground loop hum, google it and see if you can rearrange your setup power to get rid of it good luck |
| Belen Wermes 16.12.2009 | try a different audio editor for recording and see if it makes any difference. |
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