Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Biggest thing that helps is to use high quality shielded cables.  Don't use
those plasticky orange and grey 6 dollar Hosa cables. Do not run regular
instrument cables through your mixer to your sound card.  Get the more
expensive cables for that.  You can use regular instrument cables on your
synths to go into the mixer but not on the soundcard and not from your
studio monitors back to the mixer.  The extra money is worth it.
Above all use a power conditioner like a furman Rack Rider.
Don't get a Juice Goose because they are simply a power strip in a rackmount
case but the Furmans have RF filters in them.  A Furman Rack Rider is about
50 bucks from AMS or Musician's Friend.  Best 50 bucks you will ever spend.
I've got a few of them and can not imagine the horrors I would face if I ran
all my stuff through regular power strips that you could buy at a hardware
store.  No ghetto cables and no ghetto power supplies.  Your world will be
better.

Alex
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miki3mikius wrote:

> --- In xl7@y..., erik_magrini@B... wrote:
>
> thanks for your help! It was a grounding problem. I had the cabels
> from my computer soundcard next to mp7 in the mixer and that produced
> the infamous hum. Still there is a very slight hum (higehr in tune),
> but thats tolerable. Btw can anyone tell me how these grounding
> problems happen and what to do to avoid them? Still I would like to
> run both the emu and the computer through my mixer.
> Michael
>
> > Does any of your other gear make a hum when connected to those same
> leads
> > by any chance?   Not saying it's not your XL_7, just make sure it's
> not  a
> > grounding issue first.  If you still have it, maybe pop open the
> botom and
> > make sure everything is screwed in tight?
> >
> > rEalm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > brand new machine with the hum. Not on the headphones but on the
> main outs
> > (not on the subs). Anyone any idear?
>
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