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splurt · Full Member Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 111

Sounds like when you turn an old TDK cassette really loud, all the time.

This is bad.

I read somewhere korg is working on a fix, but tech support wasnt of any help last time, maybe i can get a senior technician on the line

JZ

splurt · Full Member Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 111

I spoke with korg technical support today.

I will keep everyone updated as to why my mixer is hissing This is the second unit. I am not ruling out that its something here in my studio, although my experience is that its the mixer itself.

I will take it to a repair shop and see what they suggest.

subterFUSE · Full Member Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 116

I have loud hiss in the background on both the master and booth outputs.

The hiss is NOT from my electrical wiring in the home. When I hook up my Mackie powered monitors and turn them on, there is always a very minor noise floor. When I plug in the XLR cable from the Zero8, the hiss comes in bigtime. This is not ground loop noise. It is something different, and it happens with or without my Firewire connected to the computer.

splurt · Full Member Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 111

its exactly what i have, why is it that we are the only ones? korg told me they have never heard of this issue?

automatic · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 5

i have the same hiss problem.

splurt · Full Member Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 111

hi, korg says no one has this problem, so id like to get all of us together and try to fix this problem, this is the noisiest mixer i have ever owned, its noiser then a 50 radio shack dj mixer. this was 1899 , thats a LOT of money. I cannot tolerate this hiss.

Please both of you call korg ASAP in the usa and let them know of this problem, this is the only way it can get fixed!

they told me i was the only issue ever with this problem. please call korg

Sharp · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys.

KORG know of this forum very well, so by all means send them an email linking to this post.
It may help resolve the issue knowing that this is not a unique case.

The information you post could be important to them in solving your problems.

Regards.
Sharp.

subterFUSE · Full Member Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 116

I e-mailed Korg support about this weeks ago.
They said to return it, or take it in for repair. Probably a bad master bus.

splurt · Full Member Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 111

thats kind of what korg was telling me, but they actually told me nobody has complained about it. So i returned one unit, got a replacement, same HISS. Its not a useable mixer yet.

Major problems with my mixer are:

1. Clicking headphone rotary knob at from positions 11:00 to 1:00 (makes a clicking sound in headphones)

2.Major hiss

3. VU meters dont do anything

4. Low output volume through firewire

5. Low inputs on 1/4 jacks

korg will fix some of these in the new os i hope

but this hiss is crazy, for a 1899 mixer?

subterFUSE · Full Member Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 116

My VU meters don't do anything, either.

Unless I crank the master volume to max, and then crank my channel gains up way high.

bildeaux · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 26

Same here on the meters.

We ever gonna hear from Korg on here?

b.

splurt · Full Member Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 111

hi bildeaux

can you please tell us if you have the hiss. crank up your monitors and turn your zero 8 on, levels dont matter, volume can be all the way down... just plug it into your monitors and crank up your monitors,

do you hear a hiss

Korg did tell me they will fix vu meters... they know about this

but the hiss is a mystery and id like to know if you have it or not?

jurij.es.a.szakkor · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 33

jurij.es.a.szakkor · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 33

perhaps a good idea to compare/match the s/n's...
there might be a pattern amongst them which could help to nail down the issue to a certain production batch.

grrrant · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 8

I read a response from KORG that went something like this: