Buzz

Posted on May 22, 2004 03:01 am
Lonsdale_London
Member Since: May 22, 2004

Hey there,
Im just getting into pc home recording.
Previously I've been using a microphone plugged into a old practice guitar amp which is then plugged into a mic input on one of the two soundcards i have in the back of my p.c.

I recently went out and bought a cheap tube mic pre amp but when I plug my mic into it and the output of the preamp into my mic input on my soundcard I get a loud buzzing sound when recording, you can hear the vocals but there is a really loud buzzing sound that comes through that i never got recording vocals through the old guitar amp.

Could this be a grounding issue?. My Microphone cord has an XLR plug on the microphone plug-in end and a 1/4 plug on the other that you plug into the input of a device.

The cable I use to go from the preamp to the pc soundcard has 1/8 plugs on both ends with a 1/4 converter jack on one end to plug into the device output.

thanks.

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