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Posted by Damnuok2 on Jun-20-2008 22:36:

Noise

Hey guys, every phones/speaker I connect to my PC, have some noise, when nothing is being played. I can't hear it unless I put the volume very high, almost at max. Does anyone know what might be causing this problem? and how can I solve it? thanks.

Posted by Vortex_SA on Jun-20-2008 22:49:

every cord generate an amount of noise caused by the cords resistance, the ratio beetwin the noise and the signal is reffered to as SNR (signal-noise-ratio), you can find variouse articles on it on the net...

and you might want to try and mute everything but your wave output (such as mic-in, aux and stuff like that...)...

Posted by Gen3r4l1ty on Jun-20-2008 23:21:

I had a similar problem. Turns out that my wireless USB dongle was causing some sort of interference; or at least thats what I guessed, since whenever I moved the dongle away from my speakers and cables the noise would disappear. Couldn't hurt to try.

Posted by echosystm on Jun-21-2008 00:35:

Re: Noise

quote:
Originally posted by Damnuok2
Hey guys, every phones/speaker I connect to my PC, have some noise, when nothing is being played. I can't hear it unless I put the volume very high, almost at max. Does anyone know what might be causing this problem? and how can I solve it? thanks.

is it a laptop? are you using onboard sound?

Posted by DigiNut on Jun-21-2008 00:51:

If the noise sounds like hiss or white noise then that's just the laws of physics for ya.

If not, can you elaborate?

Posted by Damnuok2 on Jun-21-2008 10:24:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
If the noise sounds like hiss or white noise then that's just the laws of physics for ya.

If not, can you elaborate?

Yep it's not white noise at all. It' some weird sound, that sounds like white noise plus some weird stuff that I've no idea how to explain but, lets say, everytime I click with my mouse on some window, everytime I maximize/minimize a window, it makes another noise then stops. -_-

quote:
Originally posted by echosystm
is it a laptop? are you using onboard sound?

Nop, it's a desktop PC, and I'm using maudio audiophile 192

quote:
Originally posted by Vortex_SA
every cord generate an amount of noise caused by the cords resistance, the ratio beetwin the noise and the signal is reffered to as SNR (signal-noise-ratio), you can find variouse articles on it on the net...

and you might want to try and mute everything but your wave output (such as mic-in, aux and stuff like that...)...

I've done it already, still, when I rise up the vol almost to the max, I can hear the weird noisy sounds...

quote:
Originally posted by Gen3r4l1ty
I had a similar problem. Turns out that my wireless USB dongle was causing some sort of interference; or at least thats what I guessed, since whenever I moved the dongle away from my speakers and cables the noise would disappear. Couldn't hurt to try.

lol, I'll try it, but I doubt that's the problem.

Thanks for the replies guys.

Posted by Reno on Jun-21-2008 15:28:

I also had a similar problem. Was my onboard pci wireless card. It caused havoc with the sound card everytime it polled the network.

disable your other peripherals to remove them from the equation.

Posted by davidbuhau on Jun-23-2008 03:29:

a touch of noise is okay for monitoring...

keep in mind that when you're using only software, when you render, that noise shouldn't be there

david

Posted by Subtle on Jun-23-2008 03:35:

Posted by Zak McKracken on Jun-23-2008 15:53:

i had it like that too but now that i sat the computer on the left side of my desk and the soundcard on right and not mixing the power+audio to the monitors with mouse and screen it disapeared. just separate everything or get better cables. i dont know where the problem but i solved it anyway.

Posted by david.michael on Jun-23-2008 16:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Damnuok2
Yep it's not white noise at all. It' some weird sound, that sounds like white noise plus some weird stuff that I've no idea how to explain but, lets say, everytime I click with my mouse on some window, everytime I maximize/minimize a window, it makes another noise then stops. -_-

1.) If you're powering your sound card with its own power supply, plug it in somewhere other than the plug/power strip your computer is plugged in to.

2.) If you have an external hard drive, also plug its power cord in to a different place.

3.) Anything that's connected to your computer or signal chain (mixer?), start unplugging/moving the plugs to different locations until the problem goes away.

I personally get the same thing you described when my external HD is plugged in to the same power strip. Plug items in on the other side of the room if you can and try it.