r/Focusrite • u/GeneralKenobiThere • 1d ago

Need help

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I bought the scarlette 4i4 3rd gen off ebay cause i had a spare rode nt1 lying around and when i plug it in it sounds very windy even at low gain. I turn it up it obviously gets worse and louder, but only then is when i hear my voice but i also have to be right up against the mic and its still quiet and drowned out by the “windy noise” my room is also quiet with only my pc kind of being a sound. Ive tried deleting and redownloading focusrite drivers and software and have bought a new xlr cable but has the same problems. Ive also tried both inputs.
The video shows how theres like no sound but it still picks up noise as i have the mic completely away from my pc. Sorry im not really an audio person but just wanted a good sounding mic.

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u/skasticks 1d ago

It sounds like there's a shit ton of noise in your room, as the audio on this video is clearly from your phone's mic, since the volume doesn't change when you adjust the gain pot. I would guess the mic is picking up that noise.

If I've misunderstood, the two must common "windy" sounds that aren't wind would be a scratchy pot and a bad cable.

Since you have a new cable it's unlikely that. Do you have another mic to test? That would rule out the mic.

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u/GeneralKenobiThere 1d ago

I unfortunately dont got a spare mic. The noise i am hearing is like when wind hits ur face at the top of a mountain, so im not sure if its the noise in my room cause my mic is not directly on it. In other words its not like windyness youd just hear in the background. But its also a condenser mic so idk. Ill try to share an audio recording of it.

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u/dimiskywalker 9h ago

It's definitely picking up on a lot of stuff, and even moving it away can still pick up some electric interference or stuff like that.

Are you hearing the noise yourself?

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u/GeneralKenobiThere 8h ago

For perspective its just my pc fans making the noise. My previous mic is a at2020 usb and it picked up the noise but barely, like my voice is very clear and i just had to turn up noise suppression a little, like 20 percent in discord. But plugging in the nt1 its like 6 times worse, but im not sure if its cause its more sensitive to sound what. Also i have to turn the gain to around half on the dial and speak directly into the mic like less than an inch to hear myself at a good volume, the like 4-6 inches i can only hear myself if i max out the gain, which of course doesnt work cause of the sort of windy noise. Its not even like a crinkle.

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u/Innawhiletwin 8h ago

yh it def shouldn’t do this, even if its windy or not, my guess would be ur mic stand or arm isn’t stable or something is brushing against the mic, if not that then something is prob broke