I had a problem like this recently and it turned out that I was over driving my monitors.
I had Live operating just below 0db, the output was turned up high on my soundcard and the volume was set quite low on the monitors. I kept hearing a lot of distortion which I could not account for. Eventually I tried reducing the soundcard output and increasing the volume controls on the monitors and the distortion went away.
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Parallel to the too a small buffer size of the driver (in most cases Asio is used) this is an important isse.crumhorn wrote:I had a problem like this recently and it turned out that I was over driving my monitors.
I had Live operating just below 0db, the output was turned up high on my soundcard and the volume was set quite low on the monitors. I kept hearing a lot of distortion which I could not account for. Eventually I tried reducing the soundcard output and increasing the volume controls on the monitors and the distortion went away.
There is a big difference between the reference volume of home record volume (-10dBV) and professional volume (+4dBV).
Please have an eye on your reference volumes, also at your mixer and monitors.
please keep the same reference volumes!
For home use -10dBV is the best. especially when you buy additional outboard gear for home and DJ use.
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