[LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Wed Apr 14 13:31:15 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:23:58AM -0400, Rick Green wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> if the disk drive is in the line of fire when they start to play loud,
>> it really will be unable to keep up. this has nothing to do with bit
>> rates, but is (probably) caused by the the vibrations causing read
>> failures which necessitate a lot of retrys, thus slowing down the
>> effective streaming bandwidth of the disk. if the disk is kept out the
>> way of direct incoming sound, the issue goes away.
>>
>> yes, really!
>>
>  That makes more sense.  In this case, the engineer was set up back in 
> the dressing room, much quieter than the music room.
>   Thanks for the tip.  I'll add a spare mouse pad to my traveling rig, so 
> that when I'm recording from FOH, I can provide some isolation to the  
> drive from the vibrations of the table.  I haven't experienced crashes  
> myself(yet!) during recording of up to 26 tracks via  
> firewire400(interface) and eSATA(drive).
>

I suspect you'll want more thick padding than just a mouse pad. Perhaps a 1" or 2" thick acoustic foam, like the kind they used to put in boxes that held line printers to keep the sound from driving people batty.

-ken


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