Syntrillium Backup Forums :: View topic - Recording Error!! Noise, and super slow etc....

I-AM · Posted - Mon Nov 05, 2001 9:14 am

Good Day All,

I just completed a recording seesion about a week and a half ago using Cool Edit Pro. Everything worked out perfectly. No fizzy background noise or recording error.
Now this weekend, I tried to record a new track and my cool edit program picks up all this static and noise, even when nothing is being recorded.
I unplugged all equipment and simply tried to record, still, records static.
I pulled a previous master wav I did on cool edit, and tried to re-record it on track 2. When I played it back, it recorded the track in super slow motion.
I am using the Delta 66 sound card, and thought that it might be causing the noise, but I went into Sound Forge and tried recording audio, and it records perfectly.
Does anyone know what might be causing the this glitch or error by Cool Edit Pro?

Thanx

Syntrillium M.D. · Location: USA

hi there. Well, you've listed quite a few different things, here...Noise, fuzz, slowed-down recording, most of which seem unrelated. With that in mind, let's take it one at a time...

1) Slowed-down recording. This is no doubt related to the sample rate. You MUST record to the same sample rate as the original session, and be sure that your card is clocked to the proper rate. The delta has the ability (in the Delta Panel) to 'Lock' to a preferred sample rate, or to simply clock to whatever the application is using. If you have the Delta locked to 48k, but Cool Edit it set to 44.1k, you'll have record/playback speed issues.

2) Noise. This could be a number of things. Probably best to investigate what the input source is, and whether or not it's gain staged properly. If you don't have any device selected in the delta panel, I don't see how you could have 'noise' being recorded. If anything, it should be silence. We probably need some more details on how you have your inputs set up and just what you're trying to record...It could also be a sample-rate related issue, if it's just recording actual 'static'.

Let us know...

---Syntrillium, M.D.

djlyon · Location: Romania

Check out Options - Settings - Devices. Make sure the right ones are selected. I would have told you to re-install the drivers, but since SF works fine... Also check for other programs running in the backgorund.

I-AM · Posted - Mon Nov 05, 2001 10:10 am

Hello All,

And thanks for all the replies. I really don't think it is the Sound Card input settings, as I particularly have saved parameters for recording independent tracks, vocals, and editing, which have worked fine ever since.
I will definately try looking at the sample rate parameters.
If for some reason this doesn't work, would anyone suggest something else?

Thank You

Syntrillium M.D. · Location: USA

Hello again. Well, if you're feeding SPDIF into the Delta, you want to make sure that it's sample rate is the same as Cool Edit's, regardless of whether the SPDIF is the main input signal or not. Often, SPDIF's clock can conflict with a software app just by having a connection, so again, make sure that they're all clocked to the same sample rate.

---Syntrillium, M.D.