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darnold
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quote - "Just got off the phone with a FOSTEX tech in Canada here-
he says you cannot get true phaze lock on a PC
when dumping over 8 tracks at a time via litepipe-he says its
because of inconsistencies in [a] the PC!"
You cant get a true phase lock on a PC? It has nothing to do with the PC but the clock being used. All clocks have imperfections which is why you do get jitter. Which is also why people spend thousands of dollars to buy nicer ones. So to say that it is a PC based problem i bull when its fully dependable on the clock of the sound card. Also, the number of tracks is really irrelevant. If it has clocking problems in the first place the clocking is going to be just as bad with 2 tracks as with 8. Although it might be more noticeable with 8. And overall, to be getting the effect that he is getting because of a bad clock, he must be using one horrible clock. A vibrato on the snare? Thats needs to be delayed by at least 40 milliseconds on some of those tracks at least. And pops and clicks from the clocks trying to sync would also be very very audible.
Which is why my theory is it is not clock related but monitor or loop related. It is something ive never even seen even when i dont have my computer and my HD24 sync locked together and pulling in 24 tracks.
Do you have any tracks armed so its picking up the snare twice maybe? Also, is this problem actually being recording or is it just on playback?
If it sounds like im dismissing a "pro" (or even possibly someone highered to read out of a notebook) thats not what im doing. His answer about the clock not being able to fully sync up is true. But what im questioning is whether he understand what the problem really is, which will be completely dependent on how john approached and communicated the problem to the tech. If he started the conversation with "Im having problems syncing my Fostex to my computer." Obviously the tech is going to reply with answers related to syncing problems. So a lack of communication could have been present. Not anyone fault just everyone has the wrong idea.
Danny
Danny
he says you cannot get true phaze lock on a PC
when dumping over 8 tracks at a time via litepipe-he says its
because of inconsistencies in [a] the PC!"
You cant get a true phase lock on a PC? It has nothing to do with the PC but the clock being used. All clocks have imperfections which is why you do get jitter. Which is also why people spend thousands of dollars to buy nicer ones. So to say that it is a PC based problem i bull when its fully dependable on the clock of the sound card. Also, the number of tracks is really irrelevant. If it has clocking problems in the first place the clocking is going to be just as bad with 2 tracks as with 8. Although it might be more noticeable with 8. And overall, to be getting the effect that he is getting because of a bad clock, he must be using one horrible clock. A vibrato on the snare? Thats needs to be delayed by at least 40 milliseconds on some of those tracks at least. And pops and clicks from the clocks trying to sync would also be very very audible.
Which is why my theory is it is not clock related but monitor or loop related. It is something ive never even seen even when i dont have my computer and my HD24 sync locked together and pulling in 24 tracks.
Do you have any tracks armed so its picking up the snare twice maybe? Also, is this problem actually being recording or is it just on playback?
If it sounds like im dismissing a "pro" (or even possibly someone highered to read out of a notebook) thats not what im doing. His answer about the clock not being able to fully sync up is true. But what im questioning is whether he understand what the problem really is, which will be completely dependent on how john approached and communicated the problem to the tech. If he started the conversation with "Im having problems syncing my Fostex to my computer." Obviously the tech is going to reply with answers related to syncing problems. So a lack of communication could have been present. Not anyone fault just everyone has the wrong idea.
Danny
Danny
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