SX installed in Win 98. NOISE!!!

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Help!!! I installed SX in windows 98SE (stupid me) not knowing it is designed for XP and 2000 Pro. I recorded an entire 8 track session using the Terratec EWS 88 ST card. A large choir with guitars and percussion. Quite a lot to do to prep the session. I ended up with CRACKLING on the vocal tracks and an occasional crackling on one of the guitar tracks. I can not have these people return to record again....they'll have my head! Now...I have already had problems with the terratec card (maybe the problem is there?) having to return it to the factory and replaced. I think the noise is recorded because no matter what things I try (changing buffer sizes, output configurations, etc.) the noise appears in the same places. I hope to hell that I did not record this way! ANY SUGGESTIONS????????? I am desperate.....
 
Hmmm a bad situation. Well if it were me I'd

1. confirm the cracking is in the recording (or not) by playing it with a different program (ie cooledit or any freebe wav editor). Just because it crackles in the same place every time doen't rule out cubase as the fault. Also check the waveforms zoomed up in an editor... do they look like they are clipped ?

2. If your have a recorded problem then all you can do is fancy cut and paste or manual waveform editing.... the crackling is also really obvious because it contains a lot of high frequency content. You could try cutting the high frequencies with EQ just temporarily... could automate that.

3. Otherwise if it's a cubase problem.....try another computer or another program. N-Track is cheap enough if your desperate and you could import all the tracks.

Hope you work it out
 
Stumped on crackling in SX.

I exported a flat mix to my desk top. I played it in Windows Media Player...crackling. I took a look at the waveforms of one track and enlarged it. No sign of clipping. When I did the session I noticed the problem on playing back a few tracks. I intentionally lowered the imput signal on the card's mixer to avoid oversaturation on that end. The Eurorack mixer I used as inputs into the (via the inserts) also never approached clipping. While recording I monitored the returns to the mixer with headphones...clean as a whistle! But, the recording plays crackling. I tried playing with the buffer sizes in the Terratec ASIO panel. More or less buffer makes no audible difference. I am STUMPED! (And in deep SH** if I can't come up with a clean mix for these people). EQing won't work because of the quantity of noise on the vocal tracks...there is just to much to try and clean up by masking and such (oddley enough, there is lots less on the guitars and percussion tracks which were recorded even HOTTER!). During the session I tried everything....switching mikes, then the cables, then the channel on the desk. The only logical conclusion I came to, after all the troubleshooting DURING the session, was that the mikes for the tracks with most noise were progressively farther away from the computer, desk, etc. That makes no sense seeing as the cables were good sheilded cables from the theatre we recorded in. STUMPED!!!
 
Antway to play SX in Cubase 5??

Another question that might be the solution....I have Cubase 5 installed (stupid me should have recorded the session on it seeing as it functions in Win 98 and I know the program). Is it possible in some way to play the SX recorded sessions on Cubase 5? I think you get my drift here...If the crackling was not recorded, but appears on playback because of the SX incompatability with Windows 98, and I transfer the files to Cubase 5 in some way, which IS compatible with Windows 98, maybe, JUST MAYBE, I will get myself out of the deep SH*T I am in. But HOW? I tried opening SX files in Cubase 5 and the program does not recognize the files. How???????
 
Hi Hi zardoz,

Try using the import feature to get your song into
Cubase 5.

Hope it works for ya!

Mike
 
This doesn't sound good ... if you hear crackling on a second computer with media player I suggest it is a recording problem. So no sign of it at the mixer ... only on the computer which means it's either a sound card problem or a cable problem
(mixer -> sound card) either way your stuffed :(

Just cause you can't see clipping doesn't mean the noise isn't recorded... clipping sounds awful but not all awful sounds are clipping.

All you can do is be 100% sure the crackling is embedded in the music... do other sound files sound OK played through cubase/media player ... if so then there's no soundcard or software fault (for playback). How many track are you talking about ? if it's more than 2 export each track separately and be 100% sure which tracks are stuffed by playing them in media player. Then the best you can do is swallow your pride and ask to overdub the offending bits.

All the best
 
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