Anger overwhelms me

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This is like the 5th god damn time that I have tried to record and had terrible results.

I get this popping/skipping sound. I've done all the troubleshooting and spoken with manufacturers. Maybe its my computer and I should try a different one?

And all sorts of other garbage.

I'm on the verge of quitting.

Anyone else feeling this way?
 
In the past i have felt like you are feeling right now ...perhaps if you explain a bit more about your situation someone with a bit of computer knowledge might be able to help you???

For a start ..what are your computer specs? and what audio interface are you using ? is it USB / Firewire etc ...... give us a bit more info???
CPU Speed ...Ghz?
Memory ...Mb?
Hard Disk Drive...Gb?
Software....?
Audio Interface .......???
 
damnit. I used to have all that stuff in my sig.

The comp is a P4. I think 2.8. 1GB, 40 gig. I mean its got the power to handle everything, but its getting these damn skips.

I might not have set everything up properly though.

Its just effing irritating. I want to make myself some solid recordings. I've used a multitrack Roland before and came up with some pretty good sounding recordings, so I am able to make good sounds and be creative in order to get a sound, but for some reason some of this computer stuff just has me boggled.

I think I need to find someone down here in Austin who can come over and help me fix this haha.
 
MCreel said:
damnit. I used to have all that stuff in my sig.

The comp is a P4. I think 2.8. 1GB, 40 gig. I mean its got the power to handle everything, but its getting these damn skips.

I might not have set everything up properly though.

Its just effing irritating. I want to make myself some solid recordings. I've used a multitrack Roland before and came up with some pretty good sounding recordings, so I am able to make good sounds and be creative in order to get a sound, but for some reason some of this computer stuff just has me boggled.

I think I need to find someone down here in Austin who can come over and help me fix this haha.
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What kind of soundcard? Any other digital gear in the chain?

It'd be a damn shame to quit something you love because of a glitch that one of us can help you fix if we had all the details.

There's a few users onboard from the Austin area though.
 
What card do you have? Are you using the most up to date drivers? Are they ASIO drivers?

Other than that it's probably some settings on your soundcard that need tweaking.

Make sure you have the most up to date drivers and if possible that you're using ASIO (as opposed to WDM or MME). Then try playing with your buffer settings, you need them low enough so that the latency's acceptable but not so low that you get the clicks and pops.

Also do you use your comp online too? If so disable your connection before recording and turn off your anti-virus and firewall etc. In fact turn off all unnecessary processes and applications. It might be some resource hungry app hogging the CPU.

Or it might possibly be something like hardware conflicts within your comp (like the video card 'doesn't like' the soundcard) which is a bit harder to diagnose.

Recording into a computer can be the most fucking annoying thing ever but once you get set up it'll be plain sailing, hang in there.
 
Send me your gear... :D

The main question is what soundcard are you using?
 
I'm running through a firepod and into Cubase SX3.

I just installed cubase and the firepod like 3 months ago so the drivers and everything should be up to date.

I'm blanked out right now so I can't think of whatelse I ought to include in my sig chain.

Everytime I record I'm hesitant to spend a lot of time messing with getting the sound right and all that because I know as good as I get it, it will be marred by those damn pops and clicks.
 
I have been out of this(new system troubleshooting) for a while but will give a shot anyway.
Most pops and clicks are synchronization issues relating to your converters clock cycle.
You must experiment with your software's buffer and synch settings.
i.e.in my setup sonar>lucidad9624>motu2408>324PCI(parallel)24i>324PCI; only 32bit left justified works in sonar software.
if i adjust by buffers up or down in my hardware(motu)determines my latency currently a respectable 2.9ms on an obsolete 2.8 northwood i built 3 years ago.
Hope this helps your mindset.
 
keith turner said:
I have been out of this(new system troubleshooting) for a while but will give a shot anyway.
Most pops and clicks are synchronization issues relating to your converters clock cycle.
You must experiment with your software's buffer and synch settings.
i.e.in my setup sonar>lucidad9624>motu2408>324PCI(parallel)24i>324PCI; only 32bit left justified works in sonar software.
if i adjust by buffers up or down in my hardware(motu)determines my latency currently a respectable 2.9ms on an obsolete 2.8 northwood i built 3 years ago.
Hope this helps your mindset.
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Now I need troubleshooting to help unscramble my brain.
 
when it gets like that I usually puff puff pass,before you no it someone like me has mailed you an adat to record on. :D
 
keith turner said:
when it gets like that I usually puff puff pass,before you no it someone like me has mailed you an adat to record on. :D
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Awesome. I've never done the puff puff pass, and don't plan to start, but thanks for the suggestion.

I'm starting to wish I had dropped money into a Roland or Yamaha multi-track now. Could have had one of those for about the same price. And less irritation, too!
 
I feel your pain .I have built systems that helped the manufacturer compile their faq pages.
i.e. I was their guinea pig.
But once you get it going it is sweet and well worth the effort.
 
Supposedly the texas instruments firewire cards are the only way to go.
Just a thought...
 
yeah I think I might have to check into one of those. I get the pops and clicks from the internal FW piece.

Then I tried a FW card I have. Diminshed the volume significantly. Also had pops and clicks.

I'll check into the TI ones and then report back.....prob in like 2 months at the rate I'm going.
 
Back in the olden days, I went through some trials and tribulations with an AMD machine with a Via chipset. The via chipset turned out to be the culprit. I couldn't get anthing to behave in it.
 
Track Rat said:
Back in the olden days, I went through some trials and tribulations with an AMD machine with a Via chipset. The via chipset turned out to be the culprit. I couldn't get anthing to behave in it.
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I've never had good luck with AMD. Well, it was only twice but that's enough for me to learn a lesson.
 
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