DJ TIP #2: How to kill that speaker buzzing

If you use a HP laptop, and get an annoying buzz, here's a quick and cheap and safe way to fix it. No, you don't need to lift the ground or anything that will cause an electrical shock.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• djcyro
• mobile
• dj
• buzzing
• laptop
• speakers
• radioshack
• ground
• groundloop
• isolator

[djsareawesome]

wait why did you use all those adaptors? you didnt need most of those..

[DJCyRo]

@djsareawesome Simple. The Ground loop adapter ends in RCA plugs. On one end of this chain is a laptop with a 3.5mm stereo port. I did this video years ago, so its a bit hard to remember, but I believe the adapter comes in as RCA female, and exits as RCA male. On the other end, I needed to change the female to male, so that I could plug into the mixer's RCA ports (female).

Your setup may be different.

[djsareawesome]

@DJCyRo Right.. but watch what you did, you could have skipped half of those connections dude, its pretty oblivious, where you went RCA male to RCA male, that coulda gone right into the mixer. Not hating but using a lot of adaptors kills the sound quality and is always best to be avoided.

[DJCyRo]

@djsareawesome Sheesh, its been so long, I forgot what I did! LOL. OK, here's how it works. The power comes from the wall, to the laptop. The laptop is sending the signal to the mixer. The cable you saw me pull out of the laptop went directly to the mixer. I was wrong above. The loop adapter goes between that cable and the laptop. It cleans the signal. the loop adapter had RCA male on both ends. If the laptop had RCA outputs, I wouldn't need any adapters.

[DJCyRo]

@djsareawesome But no laptops have RCA out, they all have 3.5mm headphone jacks, unless you have a USB soundcard. So, I needed a series of adapters to change the cable (that goes to the DJ mixer) from 3.5mm to RCA female, then on the other end, change from RCA Male to 3.5mm stereo.

[HunterNoscope]

hey dick face i do have a laptop and is hp, i get a buzzing noise. but i dont know wtf ur talkin about all that amp bullshit and whatnot. go die.

[DJCyRo]

@HunterNoscope I'm always amazed at how people show their intelligence in Youtube comments.

This video is obviously meant for DJ's, but can be applied to audio solutions as well.

[DJCyRo]

@TheWetFeathers I don't see you posting any videos. Its so easy to critique from behind your keyboard.  Get some guts and do some videos yourself..... Then lets see how not boring you are....

[silentglaceon]

my HP laptop was buzzing whilst i was watching this vid...he sounded funny > <

and i still dont know how to fix the problem... -.-

[jfslim25]

I used to have an HP laptop and the same happened to me I think because the charger was broken or the spot in the laptop where you connect the charger was broken... anyway, most of the time, this happens with all laptops, when you turn your laptop charger to the same electricity plug as the amplifier! So, to solve this problem just get separated electricity plugs! One for the amplifier and other for the laptop!! ;) hope i was clear (lack of vocabulary lol)

[djsareawesome]

Just btw, lifting the ground on transformer wont shock anyone haha

[soypiasa262]

thanks bro it helped alot hahah

[sambucafish]

@HunterNoscope The guy is trying to help people. Why all this hate man?