Firebox Noise, Is there a cure? Options

[wannabeIdontknow...]

i've got my FireBox up and running on my PowerBook G4 1.5GHz with the included Cubase LE. Plug and play, minimal setup. Almost all is good.

Only one thing now. There is an awful lot of hiss and coming through the headphones with direct monitoring and playback.

i thought that digital recording is supposed to be clean, except for the clipping that can occur.

Any thoughts or advice on how to minimize the hiss?

Thanks

[arvidtp]

Here, my friends, are two applescripts i wrote to turn nap on and off with one click - also u can save the off one as an application and plop in your startup items if u wish. Note - you must be an admin user for these to work.

To turn off nap copy and paste this code snippet into script editor, replacing your_password with, well - your password! (leave the quotes intact). Then save as an application:

CODE

set tasks to {"hwprefs cpu_nap={false}"}
do shell script tasks password "your_password" with administrator privileges

To turn nap back on do the same with this snippet of code:

CODE

set tasks to {"hwprefs cpu_nap={true}"}
do shell script tasks password "your_password" with administrator privileges

enjoy,
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