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SO! heres how it goes

im trying to get a feel for recording at home just to get my ideas translated to something audible. i have limited equipment (Guitars, amps, 8track dig. recorder, Spd-S and a computer)
i was getting decent sound out of it all too
i use reaper as my recording program and it was working just fine
but when i formatted my hard drive and re installed everything, the playback and overall sound is as though something ran it through chicken wire and pieced it back together.
its all clippy and crappy

what happened? anything fixable?
what gets me is IT WORKED FINE BEFORE!!!!
 
trevortapia said:
SO! heres how it goes

im trying to get a feel for recording at home just to get my ideas translated to something audible. i have limited equipment (Guitars, amps, 8track dig. recorder, Spd-S and a computer)
i was getting decent sound out of it all too
i use reaper as my recording program and it was working just fine
but when i formatted my hard drive and re installed everything, the playback and overall sound is as though something ran it through chicken wire and pieced it back together.
its all clippy and crappy

what happened? anything fixable?
what gets me is IT WORKED FINE BEFORE!!!!
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There could be a few issues. First, you've not specified what 8 track digital hardware you use, but I'm guessing that unless it's a standalone recorder it's firewire.

If you're running xp w/sp2 there's a firewire fix

support.microsoft.com/kb/885222
(sorry, not allowed to post links yet)

That has helped a lot of people. Failing that, are you sure that you're using the same drivers you were before? Sometimes crappy drivers for the motherboard can cause performance problems.
If, for example you used the autodetected drivers for an intel motherboard the Windows supplied drivers might have a performance hit vs the updated Intel driver.

It would be worth checking out if you were using the updated drivers for your 8track as well.

Check buffer settings on the device, it's possible you've got them too low.

The secret to this kind of troubleshooting is to figure out what is different than before.
 
i know its not the 8 track because the playback from files i saved before i formatted sound bad now.
but i guess ill work on getting updated drivers for everything



thanks for the help
 
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