I am using 4 ground loop isolators on all my 4 channels going from the Audio8 into the mixer to get rid of the noise which my notebook power supply creates. I only have a very rough idea of how these isolators work so some decent technical insight would be nice here.
So... last night I had some major incidents with a club's power circuit. It started with a drop-out of sound (for about half a second) when I used the fog machine. Later on, after using the fog machine a few times without any problems, at releasing the pushed button of the machine my soundcard would... stall(?). I had to reconnect it and gladly Traktor continued directly where it left off after a few seconds of silence but this was awkward.
About 30 minutes later the circuit fuse blew! And this totally came out of nowhere. No fog-machine this time.
According to another DJ this has happened before but I am not sure if the club owner knows this as he seemed very surprised when I rushed to him.
So what was going on there? Could my isolators cause any of these problems? Or was this just a classic case of weird fog machines or bad wiring?
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