headphone noise

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Hello there,

I always have trouble with headphone cables,
lately I had them hanging from the ceiling.
But still I get noise picked up by the
guitar pickup (that's its job, right? ;-)
Especially hihat or click sound is very
annoying.

I wonder what could help. Thicker cables?
Or is it because the headphones I use are
cheap ones? Does anybody has these bleeding
effects with good AKG's?
Thanks for any help.

Kind Regards
Nudge


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On 9 Dec 2004 12:32:48 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

>In article <31racmF3ef4bmU1@individual.net>, Nudge <big-chief@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>I always have trouble with headphone cables,
>>lately I had them hanging from the ceiling.
>>But still I get noise picked up by the
>>guitar pickup (that's its job, right? ;-)
>>Especially hihat or click sound is very
>>annoying.
>
>That's weird. Are you sure it's not acoustic leakage?

I would guess it's magnetic leakage from the headphone voice coils
into the pickup, and not the headphone cable, which not only has far
fewer 'turns' than the voice coils, also it has the same currents
going both ways and so any generated magnetic field would (mostly)
cancel.

Try electrostatic headphones.

>--scott

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Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Ben Bradley <ben_nospam_bradley@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>On 9 Dec 2004 12:32:48 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <31racmF3ef4bmU1@individual.net>, Nudge <big-chief@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I always have trouble with headphone cables,
>>>>lately I had them hanging from the ceiling.
>>>>But still I get noise picked up by the
>>>>guitar pickup (that's its job, right? ;-)
>>>>Especially hihat or click sound is very
>>>>annoying.
>>>
>>>That's weird. Are you sure it's not acoustic leakage?
>>
>> I would guess it's magnetic leakage from the headphone voice coils
>>into the pickup, and not the headphone cable, which not only has far
>>fewer 'turns' than the voice coils, also it has the same currents
>>going both ways and so any generated magnetic field would (mostly)
>>cancel.
>
>
> You gotta have your head REALLY close to the pickup for that, though.
> Magnetic field drops off very quickly with distance.
> --scott

Acoustic leakage is no problem, I think.
Mostly I stand 10-12 feet away from the cabinet speaker
where the mic is placed. Might that headphone
cable running parallel to the mic cable cause this
problem?
The problem gets worse with more distortion.

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Nudge // PCS Records Studio Leipzig
http://studio.lieber-media.de