Blue Snowball Problems

[MrTrem]

hi my mic has been working perfectly for around half a year upuntil now. My mic is now picking up a high pitch whine (i think its electrical interference). Is there anyway of fixing this? If so please tell me as soon as possible.

High Whine.wav

[ESPclipse]

How many playback sources have you tried to confirm this? I couldn't hear it from your sound sample myself, so I'll throw out the crazy idea that the issue could, maybe, possibly be your device's DAC, amplifier, or the analog audio device you are using to listen to this sound to.

 

P.S. Would you happen to have line-in passthrough enabled in Windows' sound settings? I've gotten high pitched whines from that before

 

 

EDIT:

I cranked up the volume quite a bit to hear it. Sounds exactly like the issue I got when I had "listen to this device" enabled on the line-in/mic in the sound settings. There is a good chance that it is a) coming from your mic, or b ) sound card or onboard audio, whichever you are using.

[MrTrem]

How many playback sources have you tried to confirm this? I couldn't hear it from your sound sample myself, so I'll throw out the crazy idea that the issue could, maybe, possibly be your device's DAC, amplifier, or the analog audio device you are using to listen to this sound to.

 

P.S. Would you happen to have line-in passthrough enabled in Windows' sound settings? I've gotten high pitched whines from that before

 

 

EDIT:

I cranked up the volume quite a bit to hear it. Sounds exactly like the issue I got when I had "listen to this device" enabled on the line-in/mic in the sound settings. There is a good chance that it is a) coming from your mic, or b ) sound card or onboard audio, whichever you are using.

yeh, sorry forgot to mention you could only hear when your volume is really high

[MrTrem]

How many playback sources have you tried to confirm this? I couldn't hear it from your sound sample myself, so I'll throw out the crazy idea that the issue could, maybe, possibly be your device's DAC, amplifier, or the analog audio device you are using to listen to this sound to.

 

P.S. Would you happen to have line-in passthrough enabled in Windows' sound settings? I've gotten high pitched whines from that before

 

 

EDIT:

I cranked up the volume quite a bit to hear it. Sounds exactly like the issue I got when I had "listen to this device" enabled on the line-in/mic in the sound settings. There is a good chance that it is a) coming from your mic, or b ) sound card or onboard audio, whichever you are using.

hi here are my sound settings http://imgur.com/a/KbAubis theere anything wrong here?

[ESPclipse]

hi here are my sound settings http://imgur.com/a/KbAubis theere anything wrong here?

Nah, the settings look peachy, and I imagine you wouldn't enable "listen to this device" unless you meant to anyway. Many cheaper mics (like those you just kinda plug in to the mic input or some $5 USB mic shipped from China) can have suffer some faint electrical interference distortions, however, you say it has been fine before, so I bet you are using a decent mic. Also, you appear to be sampling at 44.1 kHz, which is (with much debate) right in the sweet spot for capturing flawless audio (from a recording device's standpoint) whilst avoiding most of these subsonic anomalies called Intermodulation Distortion, which could be what you are hearing. Were you ever recording at a sampling rate >48kHz? If not, then my best unprofessional guess is the problem lies with your recording equipment. Sorry if I couldn't help a whole lot, just thought I'd try. I hope you see this issue resolved soon.