My MIXER is picking up RADIO FREQUENCIES!!!

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Posted by Devbert on Jul-13-2002 18:35:

My MIXER is picking up RADIO FREQUENCIES!!!

Just got a VESTEX 275 Mixer and hooked it up and realized with just the mixer on and nothing else I can hear a faint radio station playing in the headphones? Our phone line has a radio station in the back round but I dont' know if that has anything to do with it. Somebody tell me something. I have absolutly no clue what is going on.

Posted by DJ LIQUID on Jul-13-2002 19:11:

looks like the local radio station isnt tuned right

well i think theyre are some hum/noise illiminators that you can get that will clean out the sound

ill see if i can find any online

Posted by DJ TranceFormer on Jul-13-2002 20:36:

i had the same problem, then it disappear...

Posted by Scottaculous on Jul-13-2002 21:54:

Are the speaker wires you're using shielded? Unshield wires pick up foreign frequencies.

Posted by Devbert on Jul-14-2002 00:11:

your right. It's the cables running from my mixer to my amp!!! Thanks man.

Posted by DJ Darchinova on Jul-14-2002 10:10:

i hear radio freq.'s.. but not in my headphones/mixer.
They come from my amp to the speakers.. though its really soft so it doesnt bother me...

Posted by MAB on Jul-20-2002 05:42:

u arent trying to be that 'Scanner' dude r ya?

Posted by dj_mind-x on Jul-20-2002 23:15:

got the same prob
i hear allways some talks or music behind my decks : (

and since 1 week, my left fader allways make " CHHHHH.. " if im moving it, same as crossfader

how can i repair this?
it sux, i allways used my mixer fine

Posted by Scottaculous on Jul-21-2002 01:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Scottaculous
Are the speaker wires you're using shielded? Unshielded wires pick up foreign frequencies.

quote:
Originally posted by Devbert
your right. It's the cables running from my mixer to my amp!!! Thanks man.

Unshield wire is #1 reason why you hear unwanted radio frequencies. Make sure all your wires are shielded.

Posted by Devbert on Jul-21-2002 04:56:

Actually I think they are shielded. I have narrowed the problem down has to be between my amp and speakers. Could the problem be that each of my speaker cables are 25ft a piece?

Posted by flutlicht junky on Jul-21-2002 12:20:

yeah dude, a long unshielded cable like that will act as a massive antennae, you know like the shitty little wire ones you get with mini hi-fi's. If youve got the cable coiled up too, unravel it and lay it in a straight line, preferably not along side any mains cables.

As for picking up noise, my decks or mixer picks up the police radio, which is shit cos i live overlooking the most busiest part of the centre of my town, and there's ALWAYS fight and police being called. So no midnight and after club mixtapes for me

Posted by Kurve on Jul-22-2002 01:10:

do you have your mixer hooked up to a personal stereo??? sometimes even if put in the input only of the stereo ..sometimes ull get feedback if its cheap stereo

Posted by Xavier on Jul-24-2002 13:02:

shit man

my 2 brother's computer speakers pick up the radio...

a mixer pickin it up scares me