Hi Shawn Something you might want to try (without warranty and at your own risk - I'm no expert here): Add a ground to your soundcard (or to any ground-cable in the sound circuit). At least I've had some success (noise reduction) by doing it. My notebook and its usb soundcard previously had no ground. I added ground by connecting a grounded cable to one of the soundcard screws. (the ground shielding of a connected XLR/TRS/phone plug might do it as connection-point for the ground-cable as well) (The other end of the ground-cable went to the ground-connection of a usual wall socket/power outlet) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user