- Feb 12, 2013
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I've been confounded by this for a very long time now. Whenever I use my table-top microphone to record audio, I keep getting this weird interference in the background sooner or later. Sometimes, it doesn't even stay in the background, it becomes that loud. I don't even know how to describe it. The best I can come up with is that it sounds very . . . "digital". Electronic.
Here, you'll get what I mean when you listen to this sample recording (ignore the pulsing thump, pay attention to the background) > http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/16972503/Weird_Interference_1
Here, it's much louder, and pretty much the only thing you can hear > http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/16972506/Weird_Interference_2
I, at first, thought it was some sort of electromagnetic interference, and so I tried keeping the mic away from the speakers (which have electromagnets in them), but it didn't help.
Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
- Nick
P.S.: Oh, something else that's noteworthy is that this is not the first time I'm experiencing this problem. I've had the same thing happen when recording audio on my Android Phone too. At the time, I'd assumed it was because I'd chosen the "wav" file format, but, on my PC, I've set my software to record in "mp3" format, so I guess the file format has nothing to do with it.
S.P.S.: I just listened to that second sample again, and, for some inexplicable reason that I cannot fathom, I suddenly had this thought pop into my head that, if one could hear what fax machines sound like when they transmit data, this is exactly what it'd be like. Now, I don't know how true this is; as far as I know, I've never heard fax machines talk to each other, soooo . . . . yeah . . . .
Here, you'll get what I mean when you listen to this sample recording (ignore the pulsing thump, pay attention to the background) > http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/16972503/Weird_Interference_1
Here, it's much louder, and pretty much the only thing you can hear > http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/16972506/Weird_Interference_2
I, at first, thought it was some sort of electromagnetic interference, and so I tried keeping the mic away from the speakers (which have electromagnets in them), but it didn't help.
Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
- Nick
P.S.: Oh, something else that's noteworthy is that this is not the first time I'm experiencing this problem. I've had the same thing happen when recording audio on my Android Phone too. At the time, I'd assumed it was because I'd chosen the "wav" file format, but, on my PC, I've set my software to record in "mp3" format, so I guess the file format has nothing to do with it.
S.P.S.: I just listened to that second sample again, and, for some inexplicable reason that I cannot fathom, I suddenly had this thought pop into my head that, if one could hear what fax machines sound like when they transmit data, this is exactly what it'd be like. Now, I don't know how true this is; as far as I know, I've never heard fax machines talk to each other, soooo . . . . yeah . . . .
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