Jim Williams wrote on Tue, 05 October 2010 11:10 |
"Does not play well with others" is the theme here. Throwing together audio gear, especially in racks haphazardly will lead to these problems...... ....Avoid mounting dsp boxes with switching power supplies next to sensitive analog gear like mic preamps. An Eventide H-3000 mounted in the same rack as a dbx compressor will cause the dbx THD to rise well above 1/2% THD even if they are separated by several spaces.....It takes more thought than screwing in 4 bolts.
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Jim, continuing with this topic, I've run into other "issues."
1) I've got my studio about as "clean" as I've ever had, but, just to cover all the bases, my TC Powercore Firewire rack mount, is bolted right next to my RME Multiface 2 which does have 8 analog ins and outs. Above, you said,
"Avoid mounting dsp boxes with switching power supplies next to sensitive analog gear..."Are these two units so close together a potential noise problem ?
2) Monster Power HTS 3600 MkII :
The people of at Monster Power Canada are unbelievably good to me. I had an HTS 3600MKII start to beep indicating a failed unit, they promptly sent me a new one. Free !
I decided to try their UPS unit the HTUPS 3600 and, as soon as I plugged my computer and monitor into this unit, the bzz, bzz on changing screens returned ! I'm not interested in dicking with this unit, or any other, so back it goes. I've determined that the cleanest power is coming straight from the wall.