Power Distribution Unit

[john]

Hey

 

I just spent an age trying to find the source of hum on my audio, only to discover that it came from a brand new Samson Power Brite PB10. What a pain in the ass. The PB10 is supposed to clean up mains supply and protect equipment. Adding a hum is not part of the job description.

 

So, I bought a Furman M10LX E Merit Power Conditioner. Connected it up just now and…. No more hum. Yay! Pretty critical for any audio recording but when used with my RC-505 it was a nightmare. Every time you layered recording loops, stacking them, each loop added the same mains hum, which just dominated anything looped making my rc-505 useless.

 

One more problem solved!

 

Cheers

 

John

 

 

[Mahesh]

19 minutes ago, john said:

Hey

 

I just spent an age trying to find the source of hum on my audio, only to discover that it came from a brand new Samson Power Brite PB10. What a pain in the ass. The PB10 is supposed to clean up mains supply and protect equipment. Adding a hum is not part of the job description.

 

So, I bought a Furman M10LX E Merit Power Conditioner. Connected it up just now and…. No more hum. Yay! Pretty critical for any audio recording but when used with my RC-505 it was a nightmare. Every time you layered recording loops, stacking them, each loop added the same mains hum, which just dominated anything looped making my rc-505 useless.

 

One more problem solved!

 

Cheers

 

John

 

 

 

 

Argh that could be such a pain to isolate and fix when it is an elaborate set up! Glad you got that sorted bud.

[john]

Thanks. Probably my least favourite task in a studio. It can be so satisfying to fix, but it is almost always accompanied with the dejection that it was “such a simple thing. I should have known!”, and that just flattens any joy!