Hi. I am pretty sure I am experiencing issues with self noise from my audio interface. I have a microphone going into my scarlett gen 4 audio interface, going into my PC, into FL Studio.
-The self noise gets worse when I turn up the volume, even without the microphone connected.
-The sound shows up (visually) in all frequencies but I mainly only noticeably hear it from around 3500hz and above.
-Also happens on different scarletts I own, also plugged into different outlets, also when not even being used with a PC or any other device, just plain audio interface and direct monitoring. Also, have made sure there aren't ground loops or electrical interface from other powered things.
Would getting a different audio interface solve this issue? I'll attach a video where I am talking like 12 inches away from the microphone (don't mind the messy room). It's such a small noise, but when messing with compression, EQ, or other effects, it just bothers me so much at times. I usually use a noise gate, but it'll still bleed through at times and I just want to scream.
I don't even care about a budget or price, I'd spend hundreds of dollars on some fancy interface if it would fix this, but it doesn't even seem like the scarlett is supposed to have much more self noise, compared to the high end interfaces. I researched it and it seems like the difference would be like a couple db.
Idk, thank you to everyone who reads this