C7 64 bit - Strange interference type noise

WaveLab
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Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has experienced similar.

I have just finished putting a new machine together and gone totally 64 bit. C6.5.3, W7 64 bit, RME Multiface 2 etc

I have noticed that there is a slight noise through the speakers that sounds a bit like a windy day outside the house.

The noise gets a bit louder when I move my mouse, and when I load an app like Cubase, there is even more noise.

If I record the noise isn’t captured.

My mate Mat advised moving the mouse to a different USB port and putting the graphics cards (ATI Radeon HD6450 2048Mb) in different slots.

Has anyone experienced something similar…???

BY THE WAY, MY SIGNATURE HASN’T UPDATED SO DOESN’T SHOW DETAILS OF MY CURRENT PC.

Cheers

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well, I have moved my graphics cards about, installed the RME PCIe card to a different slot and still the same.

I notice that there’s no noise through the headphones straight out of my Multiface 2, so I guess I had better try some better quality cabling to my yamaha monitors.

Apart from the new PC, all my hardware is exactly the same, in the same place etc, so bit of an odd one.

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I had a similar problem after building my current DAW. Switching to short, balanced cables for my monitors solved the problem. That was with a PCI Audiophile 192 M-Audio card (ditched it due to crappy 64-bit Windows 7 drivers and unsolvable random pops). Definitely something worth trying, I think.

Are you using balanced cables right now?

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New cables is a good idea if the old ones are unbalanced and/or poor quality ones. But before spending any money you can also try to rearrange your cables in a way which analog audio cables:

  1. are as away far as possible from your computer/mouse/display
  2. do not run parallel with any other cables connected to your computer