mshilarious
Banned
What a fun morning. Rather than do any productive work, I decided it would be better to waste a few hours trying to figure out why I was getting a severe clocking problem when recording.
First I thought, well monitoring through the soundcard is OK, so it must be a driver or DAW issue. Checked all the settings I could find 100 times. Tried a different soundcard (the good ol' SB), it worked fine. OK, I thought, that rules out the DAW. Must be the soundcard or driver . . . tried a reboot.
Checked different clock rates/clock source, etc. Pressed buttons. ADAT input worked fine, SPDIF did not. Well hey, I thought, I was rewiring behind the rack this weekend, must have bumped something. Nope, everything OK. Besides, monitoring through SPDIF was working fine all along; it just couldn't cross the soundcard/OS barrier, apparently.
Well that's it then. Checked soundcards setting one last time. Oh well, I figured, I've had this card for years, I guess it finally died. I have a really stable system; had the MB for five years now, soundcard for three. Sniff.
One last ditch effort: I clicked "restore defaults" on soundcard settings. No settings changed that I could detect as a result (I like the default settings). However, the problem was suddenly fixed.
So there you have it folks, two hours later, I discovered I just wasn't "default" enough.
Well, at least it wasn't my fault. It was de's fault
First I thought, well monitoring through the soundcard is OK, so it must be a driver or DAW issue. Checked all the settings I could find 100 times. Tried a different soundcard (the good ol' SB), it worked fine. OK, I thought, that rules out the DAW. Must be the soundcard or driver . . . tried a reboot.
Checked different clock rates/clock source, etc. Pressed buttons. ADAT input worked fine, SPDIF did not. Well hey, I thought, I was rewiring behind the rack this weekend, must have bumped something. Nope, everything OK. Besides, monitoring through SPDIF was working fine all along; it just couldn't cross the soundcard/OS barrier, apparently.
Well that's it then. Checked soundcards setting one last time. Oh well, I figured, I've had this card for years, I guess it finally died. I have a really stable system; had the MB for five years now, soundcard for three. Sniff.
One last ditch effort: I clicked "restore defaults" on soundcard settings. No settings changed that I could detect as a result (I like the default settings). However, the problem was suddenly fixed.
So there you have it folks, two hours later, I discovered I just wasn't "default" enough.
Well, at least it wasn't my fault. It was de's fault