Real Noise Floor

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I have been recording for a while, but the high noise floor is starting to drive me crazy. With both my desktop and my laptop I start with over a -85db noise floor and as soon as I hook any thing like a mixer or stereo mic pre up the noise floor jumpts to -60db or worse. This is with the gain set to minimum and with gear rated to have a noise floor of -90db. When you increase the gain to "real world" levels the noise is in the -50db range, not even cassette with Dolby B quality.
I am not sure if it has to do with impedence mismatches or other issues. I am becoming more of the opinion that what is needed is more truth in advertising in terms of what the real signal to noise is in real world conditions. -90db unplugged is not real world.

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Topic - Real Noise Floor - tavegia@bellsouth.net 15:32:15 05/11/05 (3)

Re: Real Noise Floor - Craig Hutchison 16:18:51 05/19/05 (1)

Re: Real Noise Floor - tavegia@bellsouth.net 16:07:13 05/20/05 (0)

Re: Real Noise Floor - Bill Fitzmaurice 19:20:47 05/11/05 (0)

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