Ran out of room for song storage on my MacPro and backed my song files up to a Maxtor 160 gb drive. This way I would have plenty of room to add more songs in the future.
Big problem: the Maxtor drive created noise through the PA amp. The same thing happened on 2 different amp heads.
Has anyone else experience this problem? Is there a solution?
I do not get the noise if I send the same set up through a 240 watt Kenwood home stereo amplifier.
Drive Noise
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Re: Drive Noise
Had the same problem with my drives. Solved it by attaching a 2 prong adapter to the drive plug. Seems on some
systems the ground in the 3 prong plug creates a loop of noise when going back to the computer.
systems the ground in the 3 prong plug creates a loop of noise when going back to the computer.
Re: Drive Noise
You can get an isolator for the audio leads that will remove this kind of noise. It goes into the audio leads to the amp / mixer some amplifiers have a "Lift" facility that will eliminate this sort of noise. I get a very love level noise with one amplifer but at 50% gain (150 Watts RMS) or so it goes, it is a grounding issue. Also ensure that you Mixer is grounded as well properly (some do not) If you do a search in google for Mains Hum Eliminator you should get plenty of hits.
Regards
Mark
Regards
Mark
