Noise while sampling...

Im gettin a little distorion and interference when Im sampling. I got my old turntable hooked to a very basic DJ mixer and the outs of that to the record ins of the MPC 2000xl, but when I get the sample, I can hear little noises in the back.

Is it a problem with the needle, the cheap-ass mixer, any help will be appreciated?

It's not going to sound crystal clear of course. But you're mixer could have something to do with it depending on what kind it is?

probably with everything

check your needls, mixer and CABLES.. look out for some high voltage stuff near your cables and gear.

Can you hear the same noises pre MPC? i.e. from the headphone output on the mixer, or try hooking your speaker up to the mixer's master outs.

Or if you have an expanded memory bank, you may want to check out your memory modules, I have the same problem, I have Tin plated pins (the fool before me installed just 1 module of 32MB) so if you have that you maybe want to get the Gold plated ones IF the other things won't help of course. So yeah see it as a final option. Good luck.

Peace,

MDC

mabey another channel/mic input on the mixer needs to be turned off.

mabey its the volume level, if it is too low there can be white noise if it is too high it will be distorted

Make sure your tables are grounded, makes sure the cables you use are well insulated and only long enough for what you need

cheers for the assist peeps. to be honest, i think its just a case of a very cheap mixer and turntable and storage issues, but im gona get on the case very soon

thanx again board...u guys always save my bacon!

Also if you have a lot of wires criss crossing you may pick up interferance from radio signals. If this is the case, you can either cross your cables at a 90 degree angle or form them into a figure 8 and that will cut out the static. I'm not sure how it works but it does.