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Posted by AndrewO'Michael on Mar-13-2008 01:51:

Sound Forge breaking my mix up?

Hello all. I just recorded my first mix to my computer tonight, and when I went to listen to it in Sony Sound Forge 9.0 there were a lot of breaks in it that I did not mix it. The set is only about 30 minutes long and I cannot edit all of them out perfectly.

Does anyone have any idea's what might be causing this? Hardware issue? Software?

Thanks!

Posted by miamitranceman on Mar-13-2008 03:21:

May distortion from a ground loop? If so, get a ground loop isolator from radio shack.

Also, do you have enough RAM in your computer/processor speed, etc?

Posted by Simcut on Mar-13-2008 12:56:

Adobe Audition ftw....

Posted by a.chan on Mar-13-2008 13:28:

Audacity works for me

Posted by AndrewO'Michael on Mar-13-2008 14:37:

quote:
Originally posted by a.chan
Audacity works for me

Yeah, a buddy just told me about this and said it was free online. I'll try mixing with that tonight when I get home.

quote:
Originally posted by miamitranceman May distortion from a ground loop? If so, get a ground loop isolator from radio shack.

Also, do you have enough RAM in your computer/processor speed, etc?

I'll look into the ground loop if Audacity has the same issue has Sound Forge.

But yeah, I have PLENTY of RAM and a nice processor to boot

Posted by kadomony on Mar-13-2008 15:35:

actually i had the same problem with sound forge a while ago. every once in a while when i imported my WAV sets it would have big silences in it, although the wav played in winamp was fine. doesn't happen anymore though.

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Mar-13-2008 15:39:

sounds like a PC issue...what is your machine specs? Are u recording while u have other apps running? I use Sound Forge exclusively for recording and I never have any problems.

Posted by AndrewO'Michael on Mar-13-2008 16:25:

quote:
Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
sounds like a PC issue...what is your machine specs? Are u recording while u have other apps running? I use Sound Forge exclusively for recording and I never have any problems.

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 Motherboard
MSI NX8600GTS 256mb 128 bit(not that it's relavant)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Rosewill 550w Powersupply
Corsair XMs2 Dominator 2GB RAM

Now, I am using an onboarded sound card, could this be an issue?

I have smaller programs running, aim, an internet browser or two and sound forge of course.

quote:
Originally posted by kadomony actually i had the same problem with sound forge a while ago. every once in a while when i imported my WAV sets it would have big silences in it, although the wav played in winamp was fine. doesn't happen anymore though.

I didn't try playing it in winamp. I will try that when I get in.

Posted by miamitranceman on Mar-13-2008 16:38:

No matter what when you're recording you should quit all other apps, and turn off your wireless too.

Posted by AndrewO'Michael on Mar-13-2008 16:57:

quote:
Originally posted by miamitranceman
No matter what when you're recording you should quit all other apps, and turn off your wireless too.

Wow, never knew I should disconnect the internet. I'll re-record tonight when I get home and post the results.

Thanks all.

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Mar-13-2008 19:55:

quote:
Originally posted by AndrewO'Michael
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 Motherboard
MSI NX8600GTS 256mb 128 bit(not that it's relavant)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Rosewill 550w Powersupply
Corsair XMs2 Dominator 2GB RAM

Now, I am using an onboarded sound card, could this be an issue?

Absolutely! Theres probably a driver conflict with your onboard sound card. If your getting into this more, I would highly suggest getting a nice replacement card such as an external firewire/USB like the firebox (what I use and love it) or an M-Audio 2496 internal or equivalent. Turning off your internet is not necessary unless ur downloading crap. Your machine is fine with plenty of ram, so it has to be that onboard audio card. If money is tight, see if u can update the drivers and hopefully that will correct it.

On my water cooled machine, Im running 2gigs of Corsair ram, AMD Athlon 64 FX55 CPU, 700watt PSU, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe and 2 Raptor 10k rpm drives in raid 0...with this I have had uTorrent running, multiple browsers running, and even a PC game running in the background and still recorded flawlessly.

Posted by AndrewO'Michael on Mar-13-2008 20:07:

quote:
Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Absolutely! Theres probably a driver conflict with your onboard sound card. If your getting into this more, I would highly suggest getting a nice replacement card such as an external firewire/USB like the firebox (what I use and love it) or an M-Audio 2496 internal or equivalent. Turning off your internet is not necessary unless ur downloading crap. Your machine is fine with plenty of ram, so it has to be that onboard audio card. If money is tight, see if u can update the drivers and hopefully that will correct it.

On my water cooled machine, Im running 2gigs of Corsair ram, AMD Athlon 64 FX55 CPU, 700watt PSU, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe and 2 Raptor 10k rpm drives in raid 0...with this I have had uTorrent running, multiple browsers running, and even a PC game running in the background and still recorded flawlessly.

PM'd

Posted by tintin11 on Mar-13-2008 21:22:

Yessss

So it's not my damn MD recorder. I use the Line-In on my Live!5.1 and record with SoundForge9.0, I use to get cutouts of fractions of a second long. It doesn't cut anymore, but stutters for a fraction of a second... in a 60 min set there would be roughly 10 stutters. I guess I'll try Audicity or something out.

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Mar-13-2008 23:58:

Have you installed the sound driver from Asus's website for your motherboard? Many people use the drivers included with XP or Vista, which are not optimal. In fact, they tend to really suck on many boards.

support.asus.com ...

Posted by AnomalyConcept on Mar-14-2008 01:55:

I had issues with stuttering audio when recording, but it was a CPU or I/O bottleneck. Basically, what was happening was the CPU or the disk couldn't process/write the audio data fast enough, and samples were getting dropped.

I highly doubt that this is what's happening in your case, but do try several different recorders and do check the drivers for conflict.

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Mar-14-2008 02:50:

Wow. Considering a P3 can easily record 16bit/44khz under WinXP... lol.

Posted by AndrewO'Michael on Mar-15-2008 20:21:

I downloaded Audicity and closed all of my programs that were running. It's still putting breaks in my mixes. Looks like I have to upgrade my sound card.

Anyone have any other suggestions before I drop a few dollars?

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Mar-16-2008 03:40:

quote:
Originally posted by AndrewO'Michael
I downloaded Audicity and closed all of my programs that were running. It's still putting breaks in my mixes. Looks like I have to upgrade my sound card.

Anyone have any other suggestions before I drop a few dollars?

the sound card will fix your issue.