Mic white noise
by aaron bevill
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Jun 30, 2008 at 5:11:35 pm
I work for a college where we have started recording podcast style lectures to offer our students. I'm pretty new to audio and have been trying to figure out how to eliminate some noises during recording. The only way I can describe it is kind of a white noise. It might just be the room we are recording in or maybe the mic is too hot. you can listen to a sample of it here. The file is titled test.wav. We are using a Shure SM7B connected to a Macbook Pro with a M-Audio firewire 410 and a PreSonus Eureka Pre-amp. I've used the suggested settings for vocal on the pre-amp but can't seem to get rid of the noise.
Re: Mic white noise by Peter Perry on Jun 30, 2008 at 8:41:10 pm
Forget that last question....it was stupid. I have been up since 3 am and my brain isn't working too well. I hate early morning crew calls. :-)
It still sounds like poor gain structure to me. Do you have the gain on the 410 cranked....or really low, so you have to crank up something else? The goal is to have all your gain stages working optimally.
Peter
Re: Mic white noise by aaron bevill on Jul 1, 2008 at 6:24:39 pm
Thanx for all the posts so far. I have tried going straight into the 410 but we can't get the volume levels we need using the SM7B. I do hear the noise when i crank the 410 alone as well. Not as much but it is there.
Re: Mic white noise by aaron bevill on Jul 1, 2008 at 6:42:25 pm
Yeah we have people right on it when we are recording. We couldn't get much volume so we bought the Pre-amp on a suggestion from the audio guys at guitar center.
