In my unending effort to enhance
everyone's audio experience I would like to start a series of posts
based on very rudimentary, but very ignored concepts in audio.
Application of these simple ideas will have you making better recordings
immediately.
Pt. 1 - "What's that Buzzing?"
DUH!
I bet if you look at how your studio is wired, the audio cables and
power cables are in a Murphy's Law situation with everything going every
which way. Well, this introduces a very nasty kind of interference. It
will literally contaminate all audio passing through. Now, it's not a
HUGE issue for the project studio, but it will certainly lead to less
than professional results time and again.
Electrons are buggy little critters, and they love chaos. So...WIRE YOUR STUDIO EFFICIENTLY AND CORRECTLY.
Patchbays are your friend, people! Keep cables maintained and
organized, and if your audio and power cables must run near one another,
make sure they are running perpendicular and NOT parallel.
They should only cross as "intersections" of cable, and some of my
fellow engineers even put cardboard between cables that are crossing,
although the effectiveness of this technique is debatable.
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