On 11-11-30 11:36 AM, Micah Sutton wrote:
> Audio issues like this can be notorious to track down. The first place I
> would look is the capture agent and move up the audio chain from there.
> Try turning the capture volumes down and see if this reduces the hum.
> Anything higher than about 60% input volume we've found adds a lot of
> noise to our recordings. We try to keep the signal going to the agents
> high, and capture at a lower volume.

This is called ground hum, and is quite common:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_hum

We have it too, and yeah the best bet has been to turn down the
recording volume.

G

> Micah
> 
> On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Steven M Lichti wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Are any of you experiencing humming/buzzing on recordings? We can't'
>> find the hum or buzz anywhere in the audio system, but on the
>> recordings done by MH (on the Linux boxes), we're still getting
>> background buzzing.
>>
>> Are any of you seeing (hearing) this as well?
>>
>> --Steven.
>>
>> --
>> Steven Lichti
>> Academic Technologies
>> Northwestern University
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