just got a mackie1402; skipping!

[no-sleep]

Hey I just got a Mackie 1402 off ebay... Now I have two questions regarding it...

1, I noticed it gets hot around the area where I'm guessing they placed the power supply unit, Is this normal? Will it be ok if I leave the mixer on for 12 hours straight?

2, It is skipping when I am playing back things from my computer... Can this be related to my mixer??
My set up is this
Audiophile2496 PCI --Hosa RCA JACKS-> mackie1402 -> AKG k240s headphones

This is pretty bad skipping to ignore... please help

 

[crosstudio]

1) no problem. my 1604 gets hot. it aint smoking or nothing but it gets hot.

2) do you have any way of monitoring the sound coming from the 2496 without the mixer? if the sound doesn't skip when the mixer isn't involved, and it does skip when the mixer is involved. maybe it isn't the audio skipping but rather the mixer going bad... or those Hosa cables are crapping out on you. first listen without the mixer involved. then try different cables. then flame the guy who sold you the mixer.

 

[shackrock]

i think, if it realy sounds like SKIPPING - your only possibility is that it is coming from your computer....

otherwise, i guess bad cables or something wrong with the mixer could make it sound like skipping too though.

i'd try singling things out.

go directly out of your computer - does it skip? (take the mixer out of the chain). If it does, then you know it's not the mixer.

also, maybe it could be that your comp can't handle all the routing (if you do a lot) back and forth... (mixer into comp, comp back to m ixer, mixer back to comp)?

mainly try to single shit out in your chain. do some cord tests, etc. etc.

 

[no-sleep]

I would try that but I have no way of testing it...

this is what i did so far, raised the buffer on my soundcard and clocked my cpu back down for stability, and it seems so far so good

But thats horrible, I have to set my soundcard buffer to 512 thats kind of high latency

 

[shackrock]

what are your computer specs? get some more ram =). haha.

um, by testing your cables, i meant - like, plugs the cable into your guitar, then into your amp. see if it "skipps" or cuts out at all. if it doesnt, i suspect it's fine. haha.

anyway, so if it doesnt skip now that you did those things to your comp - you know it's the computer. get some more memory is really the best, fastest, cheapest thing you can do. (just go to circuit city, they have mass mail in rebate deals. i got a 256mb stick of ddr pc2700 ram - for like 15 dollars after rebates!)