Need help with my firepod + sonar !

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I have been using firepod + sonar for a few days.

I am currently recording a band, we did the drums, no problem.

THen, the bass and the guitar. The bass track and the guitar track have some annoying CRACKLES but I cannot see them on the wave and the meter doesn't show them at all, but they are always there, at the same moment but I have no proof that they are printed to the tracks.

I am using sonar 4 producer with the firepod on an acer travelmate pentium M 1.6

I am currently using the ASIO drivers, I downloaded the firewire update from the windows website and downloaded the latest driveres for the firepod. I seriously can't afford having to retrack everything.

I know the crack is not printed to the track, but why is the crack always at the EXACT same spot?

Should I download the ASIO4ALL drivers?

My client is pretty cool, their friends, but they are paying a little money, and they expect good quality, not cracks and stuff...

I have a major pain in the head after spending 4 hours downloading, reinstalling, replugging, relistenning to every track...

Even when I listen to the tracks in Winamp, the cracks are there, but there is no visual cue to the crack. Let say the track should be dead quiet, I get a huge crack and the meters don't move at all from the normal tracking level...

Thanks in advance,

Francois
 
So, you can isolate the crack to one track?
 
Yes, I am soo mad at this machine right now, I did a list of all the cracks in all the songs (3 songs, about 15 very very very obvious per song)...

Sometimes, it's only guitar, bass or drums. I am having one of the biggest pain I have ever had with audio technologie since big time... I will rebuild my delta 1010LT desktop system tonight and check it on that.

But yes, I can isolate the crackle to one specific track (or all the drum tracks) but there is absolutely no reason for them to be there, because the wave is perfectly draw and the meters aren't going crazy....

If you can help me, I will be glad.
 
export the track as a wav file and listen to it thru other software.
 
I mounted back my delta 1010lt system, and the crackles were still there after changing :
1) the program
2) the computer
3) the sound card

It seems hopeless, I already started the long journey of editing manually everything...

I hope I will find the answer because I just spent a few thousands on the laptop, the interface, and portable gear...
 
As I stated, when I go the to directory were I have the audio for the project, and I open the file with winamp, there is still the CRACKLES, I just can't believe such a good product produce crackles like that...
 
maybe it clipped DURING tracking it...or the buffer size needs to be played around with.
Thats why i have peeps always strum/play as loud as they normally would while im adjusting shit before i actually record it. It could be as simple as one note clipped
 
With the Firepod, what kind of latency have you set up? What kind of CPU usage did you set up? Low, Mid or High?

I use a Firebox, the little brother of the Pod, and I do recall that when I set the latency to 3ms I had crackles. I changed it to 6ms and all is ok.

I have a feeling that, yes, the crackles are in fact on the waveform but are so small as to be just about impossible to visibly detect. I remember trying to isolate a pop in a waveform and had no luck no matter how much I magnified the waveform.

You could try running a denoiser or declicker application. I have Wavelab 4.0 and it is a great app which has these plugins. You can adjust frequency ranges etc to try to hone in on certain sounds.

So, anyway, that's what I reckon.
 
Wireless?

So many people dont realise wireless can cause problems,

Check that nothing you dont need is running on the laptop,

Disable wireless and any network cards you have in BIOS.

Also try a pci latency program, you will be suprised out how much the video card grabs away from the 1934 bus!

Plus check the other posts in the Soundcard section.
 
Hi! I would like to have more information on the PCI latency... since I am using a laptop, I tought I didn't have any PCI slots...

I am using 10ms latency (which is huge) and medium CPU settings on the firepod. I am using 44.1khz recording at 24bits.


I do not have access to the bios (acer computer) but I am sure I can do it one way or the other, but I have the wireless disabled in windows.
 
how many hard drives are you running? it's best to have your software writing to a separate drive. i have even heard people say that just using a separate partition helps.
 
I have a partition that has ONLY SONAR and my files....

I contacted presonus (damn they are fast responding! Took 5 minutes!!!)

and the guy said maybe the unit needed servicing. I find this unacceptable considering that this unit is from a trade I did with someone on the board. I hope the unit is not broken.

I will comeback with more details.

Also, I can't disable wireless in the bios, only in windows.
 
I disabled almost everything in devide manager, and can get the crackles away! This is the most anoying thing I have every gone through. After a week, still no signs of good...

Anyone has any idea??? I also seems that my firewire is sharing the same irq as my wireless and my sound card.

WEird...
 
irq sharing is'nt good for recording purposes. my 1010lt crackled and popped until i swapped it to another pci slot.
 
What would be the solution since I am using a laptop and the firewire Texas Instrument device is built in the laptop, not movable...
 
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