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

Word.... fa sho monster is bunk.


Jonathan El-Bizri wrote:

>  Try and stay away from the Monster stuff too. The cables aren't
> particularly bad, but any cable which comes with little arrows on the
> connectors so you can 'align' the cable in the right 'direction' for
> your signal is crack smoke technology.
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Alex Strudley
>      To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>      Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:54 PM
>      Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: I got the hum
>       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
>      ------------------------------------
>
>
>
>      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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