I am picking up this noise in my dj sets somewhere in my chain. Help me figure out what it is, whats causing it, and how to remedy it? Thanks!


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Last edited by mfitterer1 on Jun-20-2009 at 08:53

Bump! would like to get this figured out so I can eliminate it!

That's some serious noise! lol I see that your CPU usage is pretty high in the pic.. and that's only with monitoring one input and PAZ? Doesn't seem right. You should try updating all your drivers or at least reinstall your sound card and see if that makes a difference. Where is the sound originating from by the way?

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Originally posted by Wayne_B That's some serious noise! lol I see that your CPU usage is pretty high in the pic.. and that's only with monitoring one input and PAZ? Doesn't seem right. You should try updating all your drivers or at least reinstall your sound card and see if that makes a difference. Where is the sound originating from by the way?

Thats my laptops built in soundcard. I have a dedicated desktop for production. Still have my software on here from before I upgraded.

You're telling me! I mean i'm making due using audacity to cut it out for now but I know it's not taking just bad things out of the mix. I'd like a clear signal I just don't know how this is happening!

Hey.. I dunno about this but there are a couple areas you can look at:

It could be your cables etc You can try different cables of course but also keep your signal cables away from any power cables or devices that can be avoided.

As mentioned before, try reinstalling your drivers and Live cos there's a definite problem there but before you do that check you settings in the audio tab in Live. Maybe your latency is set too low. For onboard sound cards your might be stuck with the worst possible setting (bigger buffer size).

If its your cables you can buy ground loop isolators which will remove unwanted feedback. There was a topic on here about them recently.

Hopefully you'll sort out the problem soon

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This is a good thread, how do you spot the noise in your dj sets on ableton

i can't believe the cpu% is that high.

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if you're on a laptop, try unplugging it and record using battery power

also, close anything non-essential to recording

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what are your cpu specs?

because once again i think they must be horrible to get cpu% that high.

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Originally posted by Wayne_B Hey.. I dunno about this but there are a couple areas you can look at: It could be your cables etc You can try different cables of course but also keep your signal cables away from any power cables or devices that can be avoided. As mentioned before, try reinstalling your drivers and Live cos there's a definite problem there but before you do that check you settings in the audio tab in Live. Maybe your latency is set too low. For onboard sound cards your might be stuck with the worst possible setting (bigger buffer size). If its your cables you can buy ground loop isolators which will remove unwanted feedback. There was a topic on here about them recently. Hopefully you'll sort out the problem soon

I just use the laptop for internet and such now, prior I would just hook my external audio device up to it when doing productions/mixes. Just cut the noise sample swiotched it over to the laptop and ran the analysis and everything there, then uploaded it.

Disregard the live freaking out heh.

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Originally posted by orTofønChiLd This is a good thread, how do you spot the noise in your dj sets on ableton

Its very apparent at the beginning of the mix before a signal comes in. It doesnt stay this heavy throughout the whole mix but im sure its affecting things nonetheless.

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Originally posted by notelfreak what are your cpu specs? because once again i think they must be horrible to get cpu% that high.

I had like 40 windows open in firefox at the time and when I do this it rapes my cpu. My comps specs are fine but even then I don't use this laptop for anything but internet anymore.