The DijonStock Digital Home Recording Support Forum

hello,

so after many years of home recording on the console, the 1 and 2 inputs may be showing their age (?) ... they have developed a whispery, scratchy, continueing tone when engaged ...
not overly pleasing to the ears during a softer song but possibly usable as a "special effect"
it appears to be prevelent during the phantom power uses ... not all the time but whenever it feels like being there
there is an outboard presonus preamp in the rack that is used for all mics (thru an analog input card) ... so there are plenty of inputs still availiable
when i was quick testing different mics for talkback, i discovered this annoying whitenoise effect ...

has anyone else experienced these "phantom power" / "phantom noise" issues ?

we love the aw4416 !!

mark

good luck trouble shooting this. Keep us posted, as all our machines are aging.

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Byron

Couldn't pinpoint anything, but personally after spraying with contact cleaner I would strip everything down in your space and start from scratch including setting the desk back to its factory settings you never know, but you could be right the inputs maybe shot, they are getting on a bit but ain't we all.
Hope you get sorted bud.

T.

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Thinking about it the only noise I had was from the cd drives fan which kicks in when burning to disc and as I burn to a laptop, I simply disconnected the plug from the fan, but that's not intermittent so it wouldn't be that.
As Byron said keep us posted on any developments.
Good luck.

T.

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update ...

we had time to fiddle around with things ... cleaning inputs and plugs with deoxit and general rerouting of cables and cleaning up the tangled mess of patches ...

i found that when the noise started again (during our jamtime of course), i was able to shut off the phantom power switch and switch it back on and the noise was gone ... Hmmmm ?

the noise didn't appear again during that jam session ...

time will tell if it has been fixed .. (or bandaided)

mark