Cobus Prinsloo Posted Friday at 02:29 AM Share Posted Friday at 02:29 AM Firstly, Happy New Year to everyone! Now for the unpleasant bit: my EQ (both in Pro-Q and Ozone) is picking up disconcerting background noise even with no audio playing (see screenshot). At first, I thought it might be coming from my computer, on which my audio interface is standing, but when I moved it away, the noise remained. Does anyone have an idea what this could be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Friday at 05:16 AM Share Posted Friday at 05:16 AM What other plugins and instruments are on all the tracks and buses feeding that one? Some plugins generate noise as part of their function; it may be so low you can't even hear it but still be able to see it in an analyzer view. Is input echo on for any track? General input noise can also do that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted Friday at 09:52 AM Share Posted Friday at 09:52 AM Any chance of a listen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Posted Friday at 04:25 PM Share Posted Friday at 04:25 PM 11 hours ago, Amberwolf said: What other plugins and instruments are on all the tracks and buses feeding that one? Some plugins generate noise as part of their function; it may be so low you can't even hear it but still be able to see it in an analyzer view. Is input echo on for any track? General input noise can also do that. Agreed. Disable all the plugins in your project to see if the noise disappears. Some plugins can generate noise even though the project is not playing. Guitar amp plugins and some Waves plugins can be guilty of this. One Waves plugin that springs to mind is Waves H-Delay which has an analogue option (which you should set to ‘off’), but there are others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted Friday at 09:20 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:20 PM A quick way to see if it's a plugin is by illuminating the FX button in the Mix Module. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobus Prinsloo Posted yesterday at 01:29 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 01:29 AM Thank you all for your useful input. I was able to find the culprit - I switched off each Vst one by one in the Synth Rack and was able to pinpoint Analog V! Pity because this soft synth has several nice instruments. But, the noise is not audible, so I guess I can get away with it. Unless this could cause frequency buildups in time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted yesterday at 02:26 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:26 AM 54 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said: Thank you all for your useful input. I was able to find the culprit - I switched off each Vst one by one in the Synth Rack and was able to pinpoint Analog V! Can you pinpoint which preset of which synth in Analog V is causing the noise? If possible, maybe you can edit the preset to eliminate just the noise component of that preset. However, you will need the full version of that specific synth the do the edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted yesterday at 03:24 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:24 AM It may not even be a preset--it might be an option, or a global effect, that is meant to help emulate some analog property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted yesterday at 03:28 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:28 AM 3 minutes ago, Amberwolf said: It may not even be a preset--it might be an option, or a global effect, that is meant to help emulate some analog property. Either way, it might still be editable.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Monkey Posted yesterday at 03:42 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:42 AM Why bother. When I run into stuff like this I just delete the synth and move on. There’s so many options these days that one need not fight and waist time with broken junk. I remember that was a synth that I tossed out after demoing it . Can’t remember why but it’s gone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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