RE: [linux-audio-user] clicks and pops

Brian, I am getting good results from a 500MHz P3. More important than the processor speed (IMO) is the quality of the audio interface card itself and how the machine is configured: 1) I am using an RME Hammerfall with external A/D & D/A, along with an AP2496. Both work fine. 2) Configuration-wise, I've gotten much better results dumping Gnome in favor of fluxbox, using a dedicated EIDE audio drive with it's own ATA-100 controller, and paying close attention to interrupt settings. As others will probably report along the way, there are people with @GHz processors that are getting clicks and pops. Unfortunately, this is a developing area where we don't know how to tell every person out there how to get the best results, so as always YMMV. Good luck, Mark -----Original Message----- From: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Brian Redfern Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:38 AM To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] clicks and pops I just realized my 533mghz system is just too long in the tooth, though low latency patches help, and the preemtive patch helps, I still get xruns when recording, even when I just use arecord from the command line. I need to get a new motherboard, hard drive, and power supply, even an upgrade to just a 933mghz processor would be a big improvement, also upgrading to the max amount of ram, for audio apps it really helps to run the fastest system you can afford, but if I'm wrong here, someone please correct me before I spend tons of $$ upgrading my system :-), also make sure you're not running lots of services at the same time, like don't run sendmail while you're trying to record. Basically this clicks are cause by overruns, when I run arecord it prints out a message to the command line evertime an over run occurs, and these messages correspond to the clicks I find in the finished recording. My laptop is 833mghz and does better at recording than my desktop, but its limited by the fact that its got a cheap laptp soundcard. I'm wondering if I would do better with a usb audio device for my laptop and just use the desktop as a server and do all my recording on my laptop? It seems that usb audio still has some problems, I'm wondering to what extent people are getting high end results from their usb audio recordings, or if the same xrun problems occur with those as well? http://www.brianredfern.com On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, art moore wrote: