Re: 24bit/96khz: usb 1.1 too slow?

"Randy Adamczyk" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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firstly, thanks for your reply!

On 2007-08-27 16:56:14 +0200, "Arny Krueger"
<arnyk@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

It probably means that your hard drive isn't the
bottleneck. Besides, on a USB 1.1-bound computer,
you're pretty well stuck with it, if for no other reason
than practical economics.

i could use an external firewire drive instead of the
internal drive. and i will try that, but i agree, i don't
think the internal drive is the bottleneck. unfortunately
i cannot use the m-audio interface with firewire, it's
usb only.

I didn't put 2+2 together to get that this is a Mac with one of those
wonderful (I'm quite serious - I find FW far less problematical than USB!)
firewire ports.

How does it work at 16/44? That should be enough sonic
overkill. If 16/44 works reliably, why pine for anything
more in this kind of situation.

i will try that. i used 24/96 because, i dunno, guess i'm
too old school or something.

Old school *never* had anything as good as 24/96. It's my recollection that
even 30ips half-track tape sort of ran out of gas around 30 KHz.

I try to keep the quality as
high as possible for as long as possible.

Good principle, but there are a lot of other more constructed paths in the
data flow. Mics, speakers, rooms, ears, pervasive stuff like that.

I'm not really a fan of hard disk recording.

As much work as I did on mag tape, nobody had to point anything threatening
at me to get me to switch over to digital, through and through.

i prefer printing to tape,
and then transferring the recorded material to logic or
protools.

Sounds like unecessary work to me!

i love the way protools and logic have made
handling and cutting audio easier, but i'm having a hard
time getting used to relying on a computer and a hard
disk when i'm recording.

I love my Microtrack.

especially when i end up with clicking noise on my tracks.

Those are problems that can be solved. Simply getting rid of redundant data
would probably do the trick.

i guess i should invest in a new mac book pro and i'd be happy. just seems
to be
overkill for occasional experimental mobile recordings.

Did I mention my Microtrack? ;-)

anyway - thanks for your help, i will try different
bit/khz settings and report back.

24/44 will cut your data rate load on the USB port by over 50%, and 16/44
will cut it by another third.


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