Recent content by BoogieBoy

I run an FW-1884 Firewire board into a PC for my rig. I can get it to run at 24 bits and either 44.1 or 48 kHz sampling rate. Allegedly it can handle 88.2 or 96 kHz rates, but I can't get it to run smoothly without a lot of freezing and/or dropouts. So I guess my question is this: given that I...

You assume correctly. Am I on the right track thinking that I should be using a second drive for tracking only? And you said USB was a negative - why is that? Slow data transfer? Would Firewire improve that? I understand there is 400 and 800 firewire. For whatever reasons, my new computer came...

Hello all. I wanted to ask your opinions. I just bought a new desktop computer that I will plug in to my home studio (FW-1884 Tascam Board; UAD-1 plug-in card; several preamps & compressors; mikes). My old machine was just getting too pokey and crash-prone. While I was at Best Buy, I also bought...