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Started making up a VERY basic home studio for my kids (8 and 11yrs... and their friends) - Bought them a new Roland electronic drum kit, a few keyboards, electric guitars and mic's for them to bash around on. They tell me they are forming a band... So I'm keen on helping them out as much as I can. All this fed into a Behringer PMP2000 mixer amp - which all sounds real nice for our purposes. Nice clean sound and plenty volume for me to learn the basics of drums etc.. However, I connected the record output from the mixer amp to my PC to record a track of vocal in real time to Cakewalk DAW but get an awful "electrical noise" (not hiss - just more like a random data noise) over the signal from the amp. This is I'm afraid to say using the regular audio input on the PC and not a specialist audio input card. I am guessing some ground loop noise. E.g. if I plug the my phone direct to the PC and play music there is no noise, just a clean signal - so have to assume grounding of sorts.
And so to my hopeful solution.... Yep - I'm learning all the time.
Would I be right in saying that a Direct Injection Box between the mixer's record output and the PC input would remove this noise - if so I've seen a few low cost Behringer DI boxes on line but if anyone has any experience of solving this (at a reasonably low cost) then I'd appreciate it. Or maybe I need to dig into the savings and buy a more professional audio input device to the PC?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Graeme |
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