Original Message 1/4                 Date: 09-Aug-00  @  09:52 AM   -   Hisss!

rlabarca

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This damn background hiss is killing me!

If I EQ it out, I lose too many highs. I use denoiser plugins for my recordings, but it's tough to get it right without killing subtle decays and certain harmonics. It also doesn't help live...

I try to keep power away from audio cables and I use good cables.

My Mackie 1404 vlz is low noise itself, but when everything is plugged in, it just accumulates to an annoying level... My drumstation is one of the worst, spitting out hiss like crazy (not from the connection but from the box itself).

Does anyone have any tips to clean up the sound? EQ? Wires? Some magic box?

What do the pros do?

thanks!

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Message 2/4                 Date: 09-Aug-00  @  09:57 AM   -   Hisss!

rlabarca

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This damn background hiss is killing me!

If I EQ it out, I lose too many highs. I use denoiser plugins for my recordings, but it's tough to get it right without killing subtle decays and certain harmonics. It also doesn't help live...

I try to keep power away from audio cables and I use good cables.

My Mackie 1404 vlz is low noise itself, but when everything is plugged in, it just accumulates to an annoying level... My drumstation is one of the worst, spitting out hiss like crazy (not from the connection but from the box itself).

Does anyone have any tips to clean up the sound? EQ? Wires? Some magic box?

What do the pros do?

thanks!

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Message 3/4                 Date: 09-Aug-00  @  04:56 PM   -   RE: Hisss!

teknoguy

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what I would recomend is getting yourself a nice little lowpass filter and strick it on the out end of your mixer, then just sweep out all of that hiss, no resonance or anything. Thats what I tend to do when sampling, cause my mic sucks.

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Message 4/4                 Date: 10-Aug-00  @  06:31 AM   -   RE: Hisss!

Jasper

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for really bad offenders you could try a gate, but just wacking up the volume as mutch as possible from the source. oh and check the volume settings from your sequencer. velocity and volume (controler 7) levels. and then the overall volume if it affects the particular sound. plus you might even be able to squeeze some more out. eg, the a3k's separate outs are terrible for noise. but apart from the above you can alse wack the gain up on the filter section.

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