Recording with Alesis IO/2, what about the noise?

2011-03-17 Thread Giuliano Braglia
Hi Community!

I aknowledge that I am not an expert :) as some of you know, i have just
bought this card, and started experimenting. It's wonderful ;)...

Tecnical issue: there's a sound ss (I don't know its name in
english) when listening/recording to an input, mic or guitar, that results
also in a slight noise in the recording.

I guess it's normal. But I wonder why it is there. Is it due to the quality
of the card? Of the microphone? Of the cable? Of my armchair? :p

And, do you think that there is a way to reduce it a bit? A setting or
whatelse...


More:

Why I'm not able to listen to myseln directly through Ardour? I set
everything ok, input to audio1, audio1 to master, master to
speaker. I can record, I can listen to what I record, but I can't listen
to myself while I record :)
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Re: Recording with Alesis IO/2, what about the noise?

2011-03-17 Thread Timothy Cook
I have this device as well.  When I first used it I had the same issue.
Playing around with the settings in QJackCtl finally eliminated it.

In Ardour the is an option to have Ardour do the monitoring.

HTH,
Tim

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Giuliano Braglia forever...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Community!

 I aknowledge that I am not an expert :) as some of you know, i have just
 bought this card, and started experimenting. It's wonderful ;)...

 Tecnical issue: there's a sound ss (I don't know its name in
 english) when listening/recording to an input, mic or guitar, that results
 also in a slight noise in the recording.

 I guess it's normal. But I wonder why it is there. Is it due to the quality
 of the card? Of the microphone? Of the cable? Of my armchair? :p

 And, do you think that there is a way to reduce it a bit? A setting or
 whatelse...


 More:

 Why I'm not able to listen to myseln directly through Ardour? I set
 everything ok, input to audio1, audio1 to master, master to
 speaker. I can record, I can listen to what I record, but I can't listen
 to myself while I record :)




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Re: Recording with Alesis IO/2, what about the noise?

2011-03-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:31:23 -0500
schrieb Timothy Cook timothywayne.c...@gmail.com: 

 I have this device as well.  When I first used it I had the same issue.
 Playing around with the settings in QJackCtl finally eliminated it.

Hm, I don't remember such an issue. I do remember ground loop noise induced 
with the help of the laptop's crappy wiring, but that did not appear on 
recordings and was also helped by exploiting the balanced outputs (ground lift).
But what I can imagine is that the input gain is set too high -- noise 
characteristics of amplifiers are not best at full tilt. When JACK settings fix 
it ... then it's a weird side effect of the driver, certain period setup? Funny.

 In Ardour the is an option to have Ardour do the monitoring.

But I do have to wonder about that - direct, latency-free (virtually) hardware 
monitoring via the monitor - usb knob is a good thing to have, and use. But 
well, if you need your guitar distortions applied, I assume you use something 
like Rakarrack in chain with ardour ... and that can be routed to your monitor 
output via qjackctl, independently of ardour. I just say that someone who uses 
Ardour for some years now and never bothered to get monitoring inside Ardour.


Alrighty then,

Thomas.


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