KVR Audio

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:15 pm

bluelife wrote:Well, a balanced connection involves three cable strands, an earth cable and two signal cables which are phased reversed, thus cancelling any noise picked up on the way. You could just borrow a mixer and two XLR cables (they are balnced) and try it. I almost can promise you that it will.

blue

Thanks blue-

I've actually got a mixer (Mackie CFX-12) which I don't use anymore. I'd prefer to leave it out of the chain because I'm afraid that it would further color the signal, taking me another step away from 'true' before rendering.

But if the above suggestions don't do it, I will definitely give it a shot.

I assume that you recommend XLR's over the TRS cables, right?

Is there any real difference there?

-B

bluelife · Post by **bluelife** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:50 pm

XLR or TRS, makes no big difference.
Just hook up the mixer and try it, then you know where the problem lies, blue

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:23 am

C00kie wrote:What you're hearing is interference of RF emitted by components in your PC which is picked up by the soundcard. You'll get the same when using the TRS or XLR inputs on the monitors.

Does the KRK RP6 have a volume knob, at the back? Just turn that down and turn up the volume of your DAW. That will make it less noticable...

And the winner is...C00kie!

Brought the volume way down on the KRK's and way up on the soundcard. Works like a charm. Monitors sound great. All is well.

Thanks all for your advice. It's great to know I can come here in my time of need

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Cheers
-B

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:46 am

glad that helps!

However, I'm still puzzled buy the cubase/start/noise deal-y............makes me a bit nervous since I too use C4.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:14 am

hibidy wrote:However, I'm still puzzled buy the cubase/start/noise deal-y............makes me a bit nervous since I too use C4.

It's not Cubase, it's the graphics card, CPU or another big chip on the motherboard that's put to work when an application is open. Noticed this with all sorts of programs...

bluelife · Post by **bluelife** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:24 am

BERFAB wrote:
C00kie wrote:What you're hearing is interference of RF emitted by components in your PC which is picked up by the soundcard. You'll get the same when using the TRS or XLR inputs on the monitors.

Does the KRK RP6 have a volume knob, at the back? Just turn that down and turn up the volume of your DAW. That will make it less noticable...

And the winner is...C00kie!

Brought the volume way down on the KRK's and way up on the soundcard. Works like a charm. Monitors sound great. All is well.

Thanks all for your advice. It's great to know I can come here in my time of need .

Cheers
-B

Well, to be honest, I presumed you had your levels set properly anyway... blue

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:09 pm

bluelife wrote:
BERFAB wrote:
C00kie wrote:What you're hearing is interference of RF emitted by components in your PC which is picked up by the soundcard. You'll get the same when using the TRS or XLR inputs on the monitors.

Does the KRK RP6 have a volume knob, at the back? Just turn that down and turn up the volume of your DAW. That will make it less noticable...

And the winner is...C00kie!

Brought the volume way down on the KRK's and way up on the soundcard. Works like a charm. Monitors sound great. All is well.

Thanks all for your advice. It's great to know I can come here in my time of need .

Cheers
-B
Well, to be honest, I presumed you had your levels set properly anyway... blue

Actually, I thought I did too. The factory settings are at "0db", so I assumed that should be it. But the settings that now work are well into negative.

"...and this goes to 11..."

Thanks again for your advice, blue.

Cheers
-B

bluelife · Post by **bluelife** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:23 pm

No worries, the most important thing is that your problem is solved. Your daw main output (on the software mixer) should be set to 0db though, turning down that output on a software level reduces used bits and the sound quality,

cheers

blue

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:13 pm

bluelife wrote:No worries, the most important thing is that your problem is solved. Your daw main output (on the software mixer) should be set to 0db though, turning down that output on a software level reduces used bits and the sound quality,

cheers

blue

Got it. It would have to be this way, otherwise the final render on mastering wouldn't be up to snuff on any other playback device.

Cheers
-B

bluelife · Post by **bluelife** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:16 pm

no, that's not what I mean, that has more to do with how you mix and master. Try searching the web a bit for infos, cu blue

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