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Toby Lancaster
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I wouldn't use WD40 Fyrm.
What you need is electrical contact cleaner. Halfords sell the imaginitively named "Halfords Electrical Contact Cleaner" (£3.99). B&Q or your local DIY shop should have other versions.
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Soundcircel Flanagan
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Fyrm Fouroux
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| Soundcircel Flanagan wrote: | i havent seen the most obvious answer :
Loose those ear things and get a good headphone  |
I refer to my earlier response to Silas:
| Quote: | | 2. Silas, thanx for the link to the Wiki. I'm not sure their advice is quite as up-to-date as this current problem - which seems more specific to IEMs. Your comment on the cable is interesting. The IEM cable is so tiny in circumference, it can have only minimal shielding. So I dug out a decent pair of Sony cans that I bought some years ago. They have a better cable. So far I have checked out monitoring from my digital piano direct - and it is the thumbs up for them, my friend! I'll check the monitoring from my mixer when playing guitar tonight (well this afternoon, for SLT). |
I have since been using these Sony cans to monitor from my mixer. They seem ok, but I find them annoying to wear and they make my head feel hot. I am playing in a very small studio with my head almost touching the apex of a sloping roof; all the heat seems to driftg up and collect there. So my personal preference is for the IEMs. And, in any case, there is no reason in principle why one should not use IEMs in terms of audio quality, IMHO. I mean maybe they are not quite up to the task for a studio mix of a classical string quartet, but for the sort of noise I chuck up to the internet they are fine.
Toby - thanks for your tip. I can feel a trip to B&Q coming on already
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Fyrm Fouroux
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Toby Lancaster wrote: | I wouldn't use WD40 Fyrm.
What you need is electrical contact cleaner. Halfords sell the imaginitively named "Halfords Electrical Contact Cleaner" (£3.99). B&Q or your local DIY shop should have other versions.
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Thanx Toby. I went to Halfords and got their own brand Electrical Contact Cleaner. I gave the plug a good squirt and it has improved things a lot at my show this evening. Occasionally, I am losing the sound and have to jiggle the plug in the socket a bit, but it it is a big improvement. The socket in question is an extension lead I have had for a year or two. Do you think I might need to get a new one for a better connection? I don't really want to get new IEMs because the ones I am using are good quality BOSE.
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Toby Lancaster
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Leads and sockets are notoriously unreliable, so it wouldn't hurt to buy another anyway. Hopefully it will improve things further...if not you'll have a stand by.
I have a similar situation with headphones. I use a quarter inch socket to mini jack converter. Even with contact cleaner it still needs replacing now and then.
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