plagued by digital distortion

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I installed the Waves native gold bundle last night. Cool shit!:D I played around with it a bit and it seems like if I can just figure out how to use maybe a tenth of this suff I'll be in business.

But that's not my problem.

Today when I restarted and all day when I'm trying to record I get this nasty digital distortion in the background on all my tracks regardless of how they are being recorded, miced, direct, whatever.

Has anyone experienced this?:confused:
 
hmmmm... Ill say that I DIDNT experience it when I installed the wave bundle...so it must have a workaround.

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connections OK. Soundcard buggered? I don't know, what do I look like? Reinstall drivers? Is that necessary?:confused:
 
Well, my thinking was this: you tried miking and DI, right? So it's not the source that's distorting.

Second, every time I've suspected Cool Edit of being the problem I've been having, I've been wrong. So it's not Cool that's distorting.

Third, Waves is famous for quality, so I doubt that it's the installation of that software that's causing the distortion.

So, that leaves:

1 some kind of setting that's wrong since Waves got loaded (dubious)

2 something AFTER the sound source and BEFORE the software that's involved

Which is why I was thinking it might be your soundcard, or soundcard drivers, or connections. What else could it be? What are you tracking through? A mixer?

Anyway, here's a test. Uninstall Waves. See if you can track without distortion. Then reinstall Waves and try it again.
 
You know I have the same suspicions. It's a cheap soundcard. Do they go bad? How can you check? Problem is that I don't have the drivers to reinstall because it came already installed. I'll have to double check on that. Maybe I should pick up a new soundcard, but I'd rather not if it's not the problem. Any ideas of anything else I can check?

I've been running everything through a Behringer mixer.
 
If for some reason some part of your software/soundcard chain isnt handling a file in the right bit format it will sound like constant digital distortion.

Is waves using a higher bitrate than your card can handle? Maybe you have been using 16bit but now have thrown some 24bit signals into the mix?
 
I just noticed that I was actually getting this stuff last weekend when I was recording some acoustic guitar but it wasn't as noticable as when I was recording the snare drum. It's like a little tail of noise to the peak. On guitars where there is a little resonance it masks it a bit, but on the drum, it was left right out there in the open to be heard. I'll post an MP3 example when I get home.

And that was before I installed Waves.
 
TexRoadkill said:
If for some reason some part of your software/soundcard chain isnt handling a file in the right bit format it will sound like constant digital distortion.

Is waves using a higher bitrate than your card can handle? Maybe you have been using 16bit but now have thrown some 24bit signals into the mix?
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How can you tell?
 
Didn't have a chance to get online last night to post the MP3 example. I might try again tonight.
 
Ok since no one thinks this is a CEP problem I'm moving this post to the CR and soundcards forum. Thanks fir the help anyway.:D
 
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