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How do I test audio cables?
I have dozens and dozens of cables. XLR, 1/4", a few TRS cables, and some adapters and hybrids. Some are less than a few years old, some are decades old, a few may be older than I am. And every so ...
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Do audio cable splitters reduce signal quality or add noise?
I'd like to record audio coming out of a DJ mixer that has only one output. So I thought I'd use those 'Y' shaped cable splitter plugs which take the L and R cables as input and output to two. ...
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Power supply noise in cheap condenser mic: is this normal?
Wanting a microphone that picked up less noise and was more sensitive to soft sounds than the mic built into my laptop, I picked up the cheapest condenser mic I could find on Amazon, the Nady SPC-15 — ...
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Wireless mic problem: Amplitude sounds like it is “jittering” up and down by a few db
We are having a strange problem with our set of Audio Technica 1800 series wireless lavs.
It seems as though the amplitude of the sound is jittering up and down by a few db. It throws the dynamic of ...
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How to stop buzzing sound when playing an iPad through car speakers while it's charging? [closed]
I tried plugging my iPad into the AUX port of my car while I was charging it from the cigar lighter port and there was a continuous buzzing sound in the background of the music I was playing. Is there ...
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How can I get rid of the annoying background hum on a new Yeti Microphone
I recently purchased a Blue Yeti USB microphone for use in recording screencasts.
I am using Screenflow to record with and while the sound is excellent in quality there is a nasty hum in the ...
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Cleaning up large group dialog quickly
I have more experience mixing music than dialog. Every two weeks I have to mix about 2-3 hours of dialog from a room with roughly 30 people and pump it out in half a day. There are six microphones ...
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How do I remove mouse click noise
I am using a mac and I am using screenflow software to do a screencast about how my web application works. During the demo I click on a lot of buttons and links. In my screencast I have this click ...
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How can I reduce noise with many cables?
I have a home studio with 10 microphones cabled up. These cables all connect from the audio interface to the microphones, and follow generally the same path. I have heard that parallel cables add ...
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Cooled, soundproof enclosure for a noisy laptop in a bedroom studio?
I recently bought a 2011 Macbook Pro (15") for, among other things, some serious audio in my bedroom studio.
If I open up Pro Tools or Ableton and start working, within 5 minutes the MBP's fans turn ...
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How to get rid of static background hum
I have a very small hum, it's not that audible but it's there and if I crank up the volume it's there and very annoying. The funny part is this: if I put any flesh part of myself on the cord going ...
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Questions about simple single-track line-in recording
I'm trying to create a simple recording of my electronic keyboard. It has a 1/4" stereo output, and I've connected that into my computer's microphone/line-in jack. I only have a few questions:
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How can I reduce interference with two radio microphones?
(Hopefully not off-topic noob question)
We have a hearing loop set up which uses a Sennheiser collar radio mic and receiver which works pretty well. We recently bought a handheld Sennheiser mic for ...
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Headphone amp sliders are making noise. Worth fixing or not?
I recently replaced my interface (that had two headphone jacks and volume pots) with a new interface that only has one of each. My next move was to pull my 13-year-old Rolls HA-43 headphone amp out of ...
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Region editing in arrange, audible clicking at start/end
I'm using Logic Pro 9 as a musician (mainly electric bass parts). However, this may be DAW-agnostic.
When editing, I often would like to move, repeat, and otherwise work on regions that are as ...
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Filter applause from videos
I asked this question before on stackoverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5299338/filter-applause-from-videos ) and got the hint to ask it here:
I am currently watching a video from
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How do I fix USB Mic Static through a preamp?
I am trying to setup a semi-pro recording area for creating a podcast and I am quite new to audio recording.
I have a KAM C3 (Bottom one on the site) Mic going into an ART Tube MP - Project Series ...
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What is this incredibly annoying noise?
Hey all,
I've been getting this noise out of my set top box, desktop and laptop audio outs into my mixer. I've also tried using usb soundcards out ($5 from ebay) and they don't eliminate the problem. ...
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Vuvuzela silencing techniques
Last year's soccer World Cup in South Africa brought about many vuvuzela silencing tools. What are the characteristics of vuvuzela noise that allow it to be silenced? What are some of the common ...
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How to eliminate 50 Hz noise from microphone?
Can anyone recommend a good technique on microphone grounding and elimination of 50 Hz noise?
Update
This is a simple headphone mic.
When I touch mic's body the noise is decreased significally.
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Noise removal vs. adding bed noise
I've been recording podcasts and screen casts for a while now. I've always ran all my audio through Audacity and used the noise cancellation to clean up the audio. I've been happy with the results ...
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Sound system noise from lighting system
I'm doing a lot of work in a relatively old theatre this year. The space is part of a church that probably hasn't put any money into maintenance and upgrades for the theatre (except for light bulbs, ...
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How to eliminate guitar amp hum (software and hardware amps)
There's nothing quite like the sound of a guitar playing into a warm tube amp with the pre turned up high and the post turned down. There's also nothing quite like the hum you get out of one of these ...
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How can I clean up my laptop's sound card input?
My Windows XP laptop has a sound card that's integrated with the motherboard.
I've tried doing some recording directly into Audacity using my headset microphone, but I always get an unacceptable ...
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