14 Apr
2010
14 Apr
'10
3:33 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:23:58AM -0400, Rick Green wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Paul Davis wrote:
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
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).