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mixes "lag" when recorded
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| Tegu |
i'm not sure why but every 2-3 minutes there will be a slight lag/stutter when i'm recording my mixes. i never notice it until i actually listen to it burnt on cd, it's certainly not the records skipping or anything like that.
i'm using my laptop with 1.8 dothan, 1024 ram, and adobe audition. i always close all processes and applications that aren't necessary when i record, so i'm not sure what's causing it. sometimes i notice the blue bar above the volume gains in audition appear, i'm assuming that's meaning lag occured...but what's causing it?
shouldn't my comp be able to handle this? is this a soundcard issue? i wanted to get the echo indigo, but if my computer is too slow to record live mixes...which i would have no idea why...then there'd be no point in that :( |
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| Fresh |
The problem is when you record mixes you record them (typically) at 16 bit 44.1kHz as a .wav file. Wave files are huge in size so when your recording, your hard drive is recording all this data to the fragments on your drive (wherever there is space). So basically the needles on your hard drive are constantly skipping around different areas of your drive to find free fragments but because the data being recorded is so large in file size your hard drive cant cope.. meaning it skips or stutters ever so often.
The quick solution is to defrag your drive, which leaves all the sectors of free space and files together in one big chunk. But the safest way to record smoothly is to create a partion and use it soley for recording onto and nothing else :) |
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| Tegu |
whoa, never thought about that, i assumed 7200 rpm was fast enough. makes perfect sense though. thanks Fresh!
p.s. you reccomend i partition the drive after defragging? |
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| Fresh |
| I dont think it matters if you defrag before a partition or not mate. Aslong as theres absoloutely no data on the new partition then your good to go :) |
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| i got big pants |
| i have the same issues with my laptop when trying to record. ive defraged and crap...no real difference. when i borrowed my friend's external soundcard, it recorded perfectly. you might want to look into an external soundcard because maybe your laptop's soundcard can't handle all that info and can't buffer it fast enough. *shrugs* give it a shot |
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| Inertia |
makes no sense to me, my piece of 400MHz PC can record perfectly, i even have it go to mp3 on the fly, which takes up more CPU time, and it does it quite well...
perhaps your PC is just riddled with bull and you're in need of a nice defrag or a complete reformat... |
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| Tegu |
well i'd like to create a partition, but i'm not able to using disk manager as my current partition volume is set to occupy the entire hd, although about 35% of space is available. how can i change the alloted volume size to allow for the new partition?
-->and could this just be a soundcard issue? the standard soundcard in my lappy is crap, so if that's the case, upgrading will solve my problems, yes? |
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| razzi |
you could try recording directly to mp3 if its the HD problem. i cant imagine why you would need wav quality for a personal mix.. just kick up the bitrate if you need to.
i use a program called 'advanced mp3 wma recorder', never failed me on a 7200rpm HD when recording sets up to 3 hours long.
razzi. |
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| Tegu |
| but that doesn't answer my question...is it a hd problem or just my crappy realtek ac97 soundcard that just can't handle the job? |
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| djkoolaide |
| quote: | Originally posted by Inertia
makes no sense to me, my piece of 400MHz PC can record perfectly, i even have it go to mp3 on the fly, which takes up more CPU time, and it does it quite well... |
exactly. mine too.
| quote: | | perhaps your PC is just riddled with bull and you're in need of a nice defrag or a complete reformat... |
that's probably not it. i was having some problems with my pc doing the same thing last summer (athlonXP 2500+ 512mb ram). i was using the newest drivers at the time. so i uninstalled the new drivers and went back to the old drivers that came on the CD with the motherboard. worked perfectly ever since. |
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| Tegu |
i don't think it's a driver issue.
my laptop can more than handle it hardware wise
cl 56 w/
1.8 Intel Dothan
1024 RAM
7200 rpm 60 GB hd
ati radeon 9700 128mb
possibly it's the standard soundcard? realtek ac97
and i do disable the wifi card under network devices while recording...
perhaps i should just buy the indigo and see if that fixes the problem :nervous: |
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| Basilf1 |
| You should have plenty of power to record your mixes, and do tons of other stuff at the same time, especially with a gig of RAM. You shouldn't have to do anything drastic to get it to work. Since you're using a laptop should try check your powersettings, make sure things are set to 'never turn off' before you record. Its possible that it is powering down your HD, then it quicky starts it back up. But sounds weird though :(, let me think about it. |
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