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Whats the best way to reduce the natural hiss from monitors?
Posted on Sep 23, 2010 10:08 am
Indellable
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Member Since: Aug 12, 2008
I just purchased a pair of Yamaha HS80s upon some advice from people on this board. I read that they had a considerable amount of hiss and this is true (definitely more than my previous KRK 8s). Other than that, they sound great, but I'm hoping there is a general rule of thumb for decreasing the hiss.
I currently run the monitors to a Mackie Big Knob and therefore have a few options for adjusting volume (forgive me if volume is technically not the right term here):
1.) There is the knob on the back of the monitors themselves,
2.) There is a knob on the back of the Big Knob for each set of monitors you plug in.
3.) There is the big knob itself which controls overall volume.
The first 2 will stay in place once set, while the 3rd will obviously move constantly during recording, playback, mixing, etc.
My question to you would be this: Is there an order I should set all these knobs when trying to get great sound with the lowest amount of hiss? For example, should I turn the back of the Big Knob down all the way and then adjust the knobs on the back of the monitors? Vice versa?
Thanks.
Just curous - is the Big Knob a part of the problem? I dont see myself cutting that out of my setup anytime soon, but figured I'd ask for piece of mind.
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Sep 23, 2010 05:00 pm Thanks MM. Learned a lot from your responses over the years - I will definitely give this a read. I received an e-mail response from a guy I asked the same question to which was:
"Are you running your audio and power cables in parallel? "
Can anyone elaborate? Is that physically having the cables running next to eachother/touching or something different?
Sep 23, 2010 06:25 pm anything like that ive ever had was from the gear i was using.
had everyone saying cables this and ground lift that but it was always something in the signal chain doing it.
Sep 23, 2010 06:41 pm yeah, rule of thumb, don't run signal wires along side, say, the power wire for your computer monitor. Any wire with a signal should not run parellel to a wire running power (electrons interfere with electromagnetic signal).
Sep 23, 2010 11:30 pm If you need them running in the same direction, keep them apart and cross at right angles.
If you're using balanced cables, there should be a minimum amount of noise (period). If unbalanced, that distance is significantly more important. But it usually isn't "hiss" that you'd get...
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