Hissing or "White noise" problem

Ratatheim

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Hi everyone, first i would like to apologize if my english is not very good since i'm french.

Here is my components :

Audio card : Behringer U-phoria UMC22 (I also have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4)
Monitoring headphones : Beyerdynamic DT 1770 pro
Speakers : Behringer MS40

So here's my problem. I make music on FL Studio, and until now i was using my Speakers with a virtual audio card and it was working fine. I just received my Monitoring Headphones today, so I wanted to use one of my two audio cards to plug both my speakers and monitoring headphones as i wish to do music, mixing and mastering. The speakers work just fine on both audio cards, and i don't hear any "white noise". But when i want to use my headphones, i have the hissing or "white noise" when my headphones are plugged to my speakers. I noticed several things :

- If i plug my headphones to te audio card, there is no white noise, but i don't have the same sound as if my headphones were plugged to my speakers. Meaning, I don't benefit from the "bass" and "treble" sliders (I think it's called sliders ? If you know what i mean it's the 2 "buttons" i can slide to boost or reduce bass and treble) But i want to benefit from those, since i want them to be exactly at the speaker markers for my mixing and mastering.

- The white noise is reduced or amplified when i turn down or up the "treble button" from my speakers when my headphones are plugged to my speakers.

- I checked with my two audio cards, same problems, no difference.

Can anyone help me ? I would like to use my headphones plugged to speakers to benefit from the trebel and bass buttons while completely removing the white noise.

Thanks for your time !
 

Kingrex

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Impedance mismatch?
 

Kingrex

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Try another headphone. Even an earbud with a 1/4" jack adapter.
 

Folsom

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Do you use a laptop? If so unplug the charger and see if it's there. Ground loops are a big problem in small setups like this.
 

Ratatheim

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I'm not on a laptop, and for the other headset, i'll try it and let you know what happened.
 

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