Or you could make lemonade ... You now are in a position to try several
things!
1) Some say white noise is very soothing ... it will lull you to sleep
is you listen to it long enough. I've never tried it.
2) Some say white noise will drown out speech and other sounds in those
spy microphones, keeping your secret conversations, well secret. Never
tried it.
3) You can make your own HBO style of commercial since you have a
legitimate source of white noise. Never tried it.
it is possible to get grounds in several ways, one is to make sure you
have a real three prong outlet with a working ground on it, and then
plug into this.
The old way, not used much these days in interiors, but still
effective. drive a metal stake into the ground (literally) and attach
the grounds of the affected circuits to this.
Jerry
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In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground
with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call
this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.
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On May 09, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> Hey all you iMic users,
>
> OK, I fiddled around with the Turntable to iMic to USB hub recording
> method, again, and it seems that the problem may not be a grounding
> problem.
> If I take the input from the turntable out of the iMic, I get the 60Hz
> buzz, unless I (effectively) ground the iMic by holding it in my hand.
> When the grounded by hand I get white noise (noise across the whole
> spectrum).
>
> If I plug in the input from the turntable, I get the same white noise
> as
> I do w/o the turntable.
>
> What am I supposed to do to not get this humongous amount of noise?
>
> I tried grounding the ground wire from the turntable to other grounds,
> i.e. to the ground in the outlet strip to which the USB hub is
> connected,
> to the case of the power supply of the computer, to the ground screw
> on a
> non-turntable-friendly stereo plugged into the same powerstrip as the
> USB
> hub, and to the antenna ground on the same stereo.
>
> Somehow I have an idea that there is some basic concept I am missing.
>
> Bill
>
>
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