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

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 14 2010 - 20:31:15 EEST

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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