Johan Allard
Power User
Hi guys,
Just wanted to see if anyone's have had anything similar issues and possible solutions?
We have renovated our house and moved back in just before Christmas. It's our forever home and we've done a lot of work to it. There's complete new wiring throughout, we've added solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall. As soon as I connected everything up in my office/music room I noticed quite a lot of different noises that I'm currently trying to track down.
The first and loudest noise was sort of a crackling noise in my studio monitors that happened as soon as I turn on the LED lights in the staircase. They are the only ones that are powered by a transformer. I have no idea so far if the noise is caused by the transformer or the lights themselves but today I added an USB isolator to my Audioengine DAC and that made that noise almost completely disappear. There's still a very, very slight noise when the LED stairlights are on but no where near as bad as before. I did try to add a ferrite bead after the transformer but that didn't do anything.
The other issue that I have no idea what's causing it at the moment is a high pitched noise whenever I play guitar (through my FM3). The noise is a constant 6kHz noise and happens when the guitar's volume is turned up. I can work around it by adding a peaking PEQ with -12dB, max Q and 6kHz frequency first in my chain. I have measured with an EMF (Electromagnetic Field meter) and there's hardly any EMF interference. It doesn't really matter which way I point my guitar or stand at different places, it's still there. I've turned off the lights, A/C, all computer related stuff, studio monitors, ... and play through the FM3 directly connected with one of my CLRs and it's still there, ruling out any electric interference from the computer stuff and the noise is still there.
Through my hours and hours worth of Internet searches I've understood that solar can lead to dirty electricity. I have ordered an EMI dirty electricity meter to help troubleshoot this. I got a Furman AC 210 power conditioner today and tried running everything through that and it made zero difference. I've contemplated getting a double online conversation UPS (where the UPS always uses the battery so should make a perfect sine wave a clean power) but these require a fan to operate so basically trading one type of noise for another. If that is indeed the best/only solution I could place the UPS in the cupboard next to the office/music room, cut a hole in the wall and run the power from there.
So, anyone have any similar experience with anything like this? Any experience using solar in a home studio environment? Is a double conversion UPS just a waste of money? Are there different/better power conditioners than the Furman that could potentially solve this? Or is there something else all together that could potentially fix this?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Just wanted to see if anyone's have had anything similar issues and possible solutions?
We have renovated our house and moved back in just before Christmas. It's our forever home and we've done a lot of work to it. There's complete new wiring throughout, we've added solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall. As soon as I connected everything up in my office/music room I noticed quite a lot of different noises that I'm currently trying to track down.
The first and loudest noise was sort of a crackling noise in my studio monitors that happened as soon as I turn on the LED lights in the staircase. They are the only ones that are powered by a transformer. I have no idea so far if the noise is caused by the transformer or the lights themselves but today I added an USB isolator to my Audioengine DAC and that made that noise almost completely disappear. There's still a very, very slight noise when the LED stairlights are on but no where near as bad as before. I did try to add a ferrite bead after the transformer but that didn't do anything.
The other issue that I have no idea what's causing it at the moment is a high pitched noise whenever I play guitar (through my FM3). The noise is a constant 6kHz noise and happens when the guitar's volume is turned up. I can work around it by adding a peaking PEQ with -12dB, max Q and 6kHz frequency first in my chain. I have measured with an EMF (Electromagnetic Field meter) and there's hardly any EMF interference. It doesn't really matter which way I point my guitar or stand at different places, it's still there. I've turned off the lights, A/C, all computer related stuff, studio monitors, ... and play through the FM3 directly connected with one of my CLRs and it's still there, ruling out any electric interference from the computer stuff and the noise is still there.
Through my hours and hours worth of Internet searches I've understood that solar can lead to dirty electricity. I have ordered an EMI dirty electricity meter to help troubleshoot this. I got a Furman AC 210 power conditioner today and tried running everything through that and it made zero difference. I've contemplated getting a double online conversation UPS (where the UPS always uses the battery so should make a perfect sine wave a clean power) but these require a fan to operate so basically trading one type of noise for another. If that is indeed the best/only solution I could place the UPS in the cupboard next to the office/music room, cut a hole in the wall and run the power from there.
So, anyone have any similar experience with anything like this? Any experience using solar in a home studio environment? Is a double conversion UPS just a waste of money? Are there different/better power conditioners than the Furman that could potentially solve this? Or is there something else all together that could potentially fix this?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.