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#1
21st June 2005, 09:46 AM
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| Bugger WAV recording gaps bollocks This is really annoying me................ When I record a WAV from mixer to pc via normal headphone jack socket I get a small gap appearing during playback. This lasts only about less than half a second. There is no actual gap in the music but you can tell very obviously as the gap between two beats alters i.e. is reduced as the PC seems to have missed recording about half a second of music. It sounds just like when a record jumps slightly but in reality it hasn't. PC has about 20GB of drive space and there is only 4GB left. But i never get close to filling this as i always delete when i've burnt a wav file to CD. Why does this keep happening and how can I stop it???? Does anyone else have the same problem???? By the way I use Audio Cleaning Lab to record the wav. Thanks      |
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#2
21st June 2005, 12:28 PM
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| Defrag your hard drive. The usual cause of audio dropout is due to fragmented files.  |
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#3
21st June 2005, 01:28 PM
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| Mmmm..... Someone else suggested this. I tried defraging the other week. Left my pc running for about 2 hours, came back home, and the thing was still on 0% complete!!! So I aborted this!!!! Maybe I should try again! Any ideas why this would be. It usually registers more than 0% after 2 hours even if it does take a while to complete??? Thanks |
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#4
22nd June 2005, 01:52 AM
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Always used to happen to me that, always told to defrag, used a few diff progs (windows built in one is a total nause apparently) and always got stuck or had to give up cos it looked liek it was gonna take 3 weeks or somat. theres one called 0&0 defrag tho, works a treat...think ya suppose to pay for it...but hey...this in the internet...if ya know what i mean 
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#5
22nd June 2005, 02:56 AM
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| get the latest version of diskeeper as it does it continuously in the background or you can set to specific dates/times if wanted. http://www.executive.com/diskeeper/d...er.asp?ad=go13 Andy |
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#6
5th July 2005, 02:56 PM
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| Still having problems!!! Downloaded the Diskeeper defrag program. Before I used it Windows Explorer was saying I had 2GB free memory. Used the Diskeeper. Results said that I now had over 7GB of free memory. It also said that the defrag had been 100% successful. Output showed that theoretical read time was now the same as actual read time, whereas before it had been about 75% slower due to defragmentation! So I think, OK the drive has been fully defragmented. Recorded about a 60 mins mix at the weekend. There are still about 3 or 4 of these "gaps or missed audio still happening!! Really don't know what the problem could be now. Thinking back, the only time I never had one of these gaps was the very first time I used this pc for recording WAV's. Any ideas now what the problem might be??? Thanks.............. |
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#8
5th July 2005, 05:35 PM
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| If you've got a newtwork cable, try unplugging it. I had the same problem a while back and the network cable was the cause. F*ck knows why like! |
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#9
5th July 2005, 05:43 PM
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| Gav m8..... I had the same problem a while back...did me in for months. Tryed to Defrag the disc but kept hanging at 65% - this usually is not a good sign and means your drive is probably on it's last legs I ended up replacing the HD and upgrading my ram - that cured the problem. It then started to happen again a few months later..... So I ended up ditching my computer and buying a new one. LOL an expensive way of curing the problem but it worked |
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#10
7th July 2005, 08:35 AM
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| Cheers. Will give the suggestions a try, except for buying a new PC!!! Tim, I think your problem relates to what I am experiencing. The more you seem to record audio the worse the problem seems to get. Hence the defrag! But mine is worse than ever even though defrag was 100% completed! I'm also gonna try stopping all unnecessary programs running in the background whilst recording. |
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#11
12th July 2005, 10:15 AM
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| Another forum has suggested that the sound card could be the reason? Has anyone had similar problems relating to soundcards? Can't see it myself as my PC used to record OK to start with but now it is knacked!!! This leads me to think hard drive?!?!?!?! |
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#12
12th July 2005, 06:07 PM
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| More than likely the HD gav...especially if it will run scandisk 100%.... also change your RAM (or add more to it) - as sometimes RAM can get corrupt too. Quote:
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#13
13th July 2005, 12:46 AM
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Both suffered the same symptoms, and whilst recording, the running timing display would often stop running after say 30 mins of recording. I asked a mate at the time who was more clued up on PC's and he suggested defragging the drives, I did so and problem solved  I have used stand alone hard disk recording and never had any trouble with those, maybe they handle it better  |
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#14
13th July 2005, 02:43 AM
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| Ok so its not a defrag problem - have you tried updating your soundcard drivers to the latest ones available and adjusted the cards latency. Also try disabling your anti virus whilst trying to record, as the PC might be trying to start a real time virus scan.  Failing that then tims Idea of a new HDD plus RAM sounds like the ideal option. Also try Wavelab - never had any problems with it. Andy |
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#15
13th July 2005, 08:50 AM
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| Cheers skippy. Some useful info there. I will have a look into the settings on the recording prog. It just puzzles me why its happening more and more now - the latest time the audio dropped out about 6 times in an hour!!! It never used to do that. ALthough there is less free memory on the pc now. Will give your suggestions a try anyway. Is Soundforge available free d/l??? Ta |
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