14 Apr
2010
14 Apr
'10
7:58 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Monty Montgomery <xiphmont(a)gmail.com> wrote:
the best documented case i'm personally familiar with was an FOH
engineer using ardour. if he kept the (external) drive on the same
table as the mixing console, ardour would fail to "keep up" with disk
i/o. if he put a drum shield box in front of the table, no problems.
if he put the disk into the cabinet below the console, no problems. if
the band played quietly, no problems.
and then there is the sun testing work that arnold referred to.
what's
ironic though is that its now reasonably well documented that
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!
Really? I've often wondered about that, but despite doing hard disk
recording for the past ten years now (And I've run some very loud
shows where the whole FOH was shaking) I've never had a hard disk flag
trouble with vibration.