audio distortions after recording

Niall Munnelly EMAIL HIDDEN
Sun Jun 15 17:01:05 CEST 2008


On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:19:26PM +0200, Gert van Santen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> My friend Hans (former music-bar) has recorded some live 
> classical music with a Powerbook 1,5 GHz, 1 GB RAM (I suppose) 
> and a Focusrite Octa Pre. He finds parts of his recordings are 
> distorted.
> 
> I advised: extra RAM, fast external Hard Drive, newest drivers 
> for OctaPre.
> 
> What else can he do to prevent this in the future?

Not sure what you mean by "after recording" in this case.
Is it clipping, because the signal is too hot for the mic or
the mic pre?  Is it "skipping" or zippering caused by ASIO
overruns, a slow hard drive, something else?


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