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I'm moving beyond cassette four tracking and finally getting around to laying down some "keeper" electric guitar tracks onto my VS-880 (the older one). I'm recording in an extremely dead room using an SM-57 pointed slightly in toward the edge of the speaker cone. I'm playing through a Peavey Tube Amp turned up to about 7, and the mic is picking up some horrible noise.

One of the noises is definitely the tubes rattling around any time a note gets below a certain frequency. I can hear this when I am in the room with the amp. The other noise sounds like a fast clicking or some static which occurs any time a note is played. My levels are nowhere near 0 dB. I cannot hear this noise when I'm in with the amp. I only hear it through the headphones (or monitors) in my "monitoring room", AKA baby's nursery.

Are noisy tubes a problem for everyone?

Any ideas on what the other noise could be? The end of the SM-57 is loose, and I've seen some with tape on the ends. Could this be it?

Thanks for any help.

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• Re: Noisy Tubes Jon B 11:37:50 AM 12/28/00 (0)