TopicPosted on 01/26/2007 at 08:22:24Interference when recording on laptop???
Hi all,
Im new to the forum so first of all Hi. I wonder if anyone can help me.....I am using Cubase sx3 and rying to record v drums and guitar through a m-audio firewire to my Laptop (HP pavillion zd 8000).
However whenever Iconnect th v - drums or guitar to laptop, I get a terrible inteference in the background, which sounds like an old computer game loading or mobile phone interfernce. However, i have switch all apliance of in flat, and have isolated the interference to the laptop. Anything plugged into the firewire or mic input of laptop and the interference starts. The v-drums, guitars, leads, m-audio are all functioning prfectly independently, so i thought it might be a setting on my laptop or something running in the background but cant work it out. If anyone knows the solution or can help in anyway, i would be very grateful.
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ra7or
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2Posted on 01/27/2007 at 00:22:09
you don't understand, your laptop gives you problems because of the way it was built.
its a serious hardware limitation that just can't be solved by a few touches here and there.
does it still have a warranty? because your best solution is to replace it with another one.
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ra7or
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3Posted on 01/26/2007 at 11:54:02
this behavior occurs on not correctly shielded laptops.
the energy that is dispersed through the motherboard's main bus interferes with the firewire interface.
the interference causes cracking/buzzing/humming noises that correspond to data being transferred on the firewire cable.
try connecting the m-audio to a different pc. if it works fine, then i'm afraid your laptop has shielding problems.
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Hammy79
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4Posted on 01/26/2007 at 16:37:15
hmmmmm,
thanks for the info. have tried m-audio on other comp and its fine, i fear its my comp the problem. Any ideas on correcty shelding my laptop?
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ryansoh1
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5Posted on 02/25/2009 at 10:15:13
It might be the power, try running it off the battery. I have to do that with my ACER