EddieRay
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I had a great weekend: tracked my drummer to 5 tracks of tape (TASCAM 688) alongside 2 scratch tracks, then dumped all 7 tracks into CW9, 2 songs, 3 takes each, 24-bit @ 48kHz. Nothing went wrong during this transfer.
I usually have a problem tracking 4 or more tracks at a time, 16-bit @ 44.1kHz. My PC (XP, 2.2 gHz, Celeron) usually finds something better to do when I'm doing audio stuff, causing little tempo gaps or having dropout fits. I tripled my memory (now 768mb) and got a bigger, faster hard drive but even so my PC is finicky about when it will perform well.
Not last weekend though. Smooth as silk from beginning to end. I noticed there wasn't much disk activity while dumping the tracks. Only when I stopped recording did the disk go into heavy write mode.
What gives? Is it good karma given to me by mistake? Or maybe 24-bit/48kHz performs better than 16-bit/44.1kHz? Somebody help me understand my good fortune so I can repeat it.
I usually have a problem tracking 4 or more tracks at a time, 16-bit @ 44.1kHz. My PC (XP, 2.2 gHz, Celeron) usually finds something better to do when I'm doing audio stuff, causing little tempo gaps or having dropout fits. I tripled my memory (now 768mb) and got a bigger, faster hard drive but even so my PC is finicky about when it will perform well.
Not last weekend though. Smooth as silk from beginning to end. I noticed there wasn't much disk activity while dumping the tracks. Only when I stopped recording did the disk go into heavy write mode.
What gives? Is it good karma given to me by mistake? Or maybe 24-bit/48kHz performs better than 16-bit/44.1kHz? Somebody help me understand my good fortune so I can repeat it.
