Loud hiss in tracks that are exported

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by JFreak

Yea, but you get to choose between 50Hz and 60Hz crap

Originally Posted by Southsidemusic

Useless!

Just like a number of piano vi's that have the key & pedal noises you can blend in or the mechanical noise of a spinning Leslie. Thankfully you can turn those things off - I always do. It's for things like this that gates are still a good thing to have.

[boydwgrossii]

Thank you for the responses.

I will do my best to answer all questions, but, am not sure how to.

There is no hiss when I stop the playback, only during the playing.

I am only using stock plugins for the compression and eq of the track.

I think I have an idea of what is happening, but not sure why. I have to take the track and bring up the gain by +11 db to barely hear it. When I add a dynamic plugin to bring up the output gain, there is a hiss.

On the other Mac, I exported the track and it was fairly low. When I imported on my Mac, the tracks were just loud. I probably should have kept it that way and brought down the gain there.

Thoughts?

[Darryl Ramm]

What exactly is your monitoring setup/audio path? What interface (the 2i2?), additional monitor controllers if any, what amps, powered monitors etc.

Have you played with gain staging (e.g. on interface output and active monitor levels) to get the best sound/minimize hiss. Have you calibrated the monitor levels? What SPL level you are trying to run at... is this loud rock music etc?

What happens when you try to use headphones? what exact model headphones? Connected where?

Do you have a master fader showing for the track?


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One suspect if you have to raise the level in Pro Tools is just because your monitor are not set up properly, e.g. something as simple as you do not have the level turned up on the monitors, or you have them miswired. So again. start by telling us details of your playback systems/monitors.

So the real question here is why do you have to raise the track by 11dB to hear it. Did it seem fine on the other system? Leave out plugins etc. Start by getting stuff the same on the original system with the track played back solo with plugins disabled/defeated and on your system the same.

And by "export" you mean actual export not Bounce to Disk? If Bounce to Disk you easily could be bouncing at too low a level.

[boydwgrossii]

For mobile mixing, I just run my headphones into my Mac.

Audio Technica ATH40X
AKG K240STUDIO Semi-Open Studio Headphones

At the house, I'll have my headphones plugged into the 2i2 and bring the volume up.

For the gain staging, I don't think he did that. He captured the MIDI inputs by way of a piano and then he put a VI on the MIDI track.