Today I wanna tell you what happened today. I went to a certificated Roland electronic repairman (one of the many available here in Italy). He told me that my tb 303 is absolute fine. I was bored for some kind of internal noise but he told me that all analogs has those kind of things, and that it can't be done anything.
Also he advised me to use some kind of gate or any other gear to cut the unwanted part of noise (kind of difficult, already tried). He also told me that its not really all because of grounding loop. Its the synth made like that.

Summary: Is it real? All (old) analogs has some unique timbre of noise?

Have you ever heard about that?

BIG THANKS, BLESS YOU ALL.

 

For brevity I'll just say yes. When is the noise occurring? When not playing both VCF and VCA should be closed...ie the gate is closed. If while playing... are we talking the squelchy wikka wikka i just took a tab and oohhh birds... kinda noise or are we talking clicks, pops, filter staying open after release ends kinda stuff? If we're talking more noise while you're not playing and it fluctuates or is high pitched then I'd suspect power issues with the socket you're using. If its constant loud white noise I'd suspect you arent gain staging correctly.

Noise can be lots of things. Gotta be super specific to start nailing it down.

Curious how you have a tb303 and not know what is supposed to sound like anyway? Once upon a time, a dime a dozen... that time is long gone.

 

This is normal. You are used to digital VSTs. It can add some personality to the mix.

 

All analog is noisy, not just synths but the processors as well. The only question is how much.

 

All hardware has noise, some more, some less. And yes, a gate is the answer.

 

Use a Gate FX VST as the first device in your mixer chain. There are often presets such as power supply noise or interference etc.!

 

Could you please me name me some good vst.

 

Can you post a wav sample zip about 10sec 16bit/44.1 no effect (no mixer) full dynamics as clear as possible, random pattern, let's have a listen.

what ADDA?

BTW never use gate fx, it really sucks.

 

FabFilter Pro-G

First in Chain: Placing the gate first removes unwanted noise before it hits other processors, preventing issues like noise being amplified by compressors or EQs

 

Even the stuff in the earlier digital age was quite noisy. My Kurzweil K2000 was so noisy I brought it into a repair shop. They tested it thoroughly and then were like "ah, yeah, no... these things just ain't better than that."

PS: If you need to get rid of the noise because your synth needs to be heard solo or something: Record it and take a noiseprint with izotope rx. but dont overdo it, a 10db reduction of noise should do.