A1200 dirty audio

[Karlos]

Today, for the first time in a long while, I thought I'd play with Octamed on my main A1200. I've always routed the Paula output straight into the input of my tone generator (which then applies effects and so on).

To my dismay I noticed the audio was very dirty, and not in a good way :lol: It seems I'm getting a lot of cross interference from other activity going on in the machine. There's always been a degree of "blitter music" as I used refer to it but I'm sure it never used to be this prominent.

Could this be an indicator of failing components? I've been thinking to replace the caps on the system for a long time. There's no obvious indication that they've leaked but I'm sure a few must have dried out.

[Karlos]

To clarify, it isn't a distortion of the audio, it's just the presence of interference from other parts of the system. You can actually hear the sound change depending on what you are doing. I should sample it and make some glitch :lol:

[Karlos]

Bad power supply? Bad cap in the power supply? Could be a grounding issue..

Nah, it's definitely electronic chatter. You can hear the effect of moving the mouse, disk IO and other sources of interference.

[Karlos]

Hi Karlos,
I've had this kind of problem before, try relocating your miggy to a different location in the room or check your cables see if it touches near an active radio source. See if that helps.

Regards,

GiZz72

Relocation is not a good option right now. It's hooked up to my old 19 inch CRT, various synths, router and other gubbins.

[Karlos]

Probably need one one of these.  

http://www.vhaudio.com/acoustic-revive-rio5.html

Make sure to read all the way down to the bottom to learn how you can increase you DVDs picture quality with this device too.

:roflmao:

There has to be a specific class of gullible to buy that.