Nov 15, 2007 03:07 am I'm not entirely positive, but that sounds like digital distortion to me, not a faulty needle. Check your buffer settings on your import software/hardware, check your cable connections, and is it a belt driven table?
Horrible cracking on a vinyl player.
Posted on Nov 15, 2007 02:59 am
eib
Member Since: Oct 18, 2007
I was recording some LP's to my computer via Numark TT1610 turntable and DM950 USB mixer, when all of the sudden this horrible cracking came in. I turned off both of the devices, letting them rest for a while. Trying again in few minutes I was able to record for about 2 or 3 minutes when this same thing happened.
Is it possible that my needle is screwed already? I bought the damn devices a month ago and have used em only for about 12 hours or so.
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Nov 15, 2007 03:07 am I'm not entirely positive, but that sounds like digital distortion to me, not a faulty needle. Check your buffer settings on your import software/hardware, check your cable connections, and is it a belt driven table?
Nov 15, 2007 03:12 am Yes, it's a belt driven turntable. I switched the turntable's wires from Phono 1 to Phonoe 2, but that didn't help.
It was working perfectly fine two weeks ago, until I lend the mixer to a friend of mine and got it back yesterday. Don't want to blame it on him though, but I'll ask him anyway.
I'm going to check the buffer thingie asap.
Nov 15, 2007 03:34 am I'd hate to jump to conclusions, but you're friend may have dropped it, though not likely it would do anything- those things are pretty solid.
Try hooking a pair of speakers up to the mixer and see if it still does it without the computer in the mix and that'll take alot of your options out of the picture. If it's not the computer, there's only 4 or 5 other things it could be. (Mixer, table, cables, speakers or dirty power)
Nov 15, 2007 03:55 am Well, without changing actually anything I was able to record everything I needed for today (that's about 30 minutes with no problems). So I'm letting you know if the dirty thing returns.
Nov 15, 2007 06:51 am This is a resource conflict... if USB isn't sharing IRQ's with anything you may still have to pull the ethernet card and/or disable DHCP in start->run->services.msc ... I had this with my Aardvark Q10 and basically windows was confusing it with a network card...
Nov 15, 2007 06:27 pm zek is correct. It is a resource problem. That or a possible driver conflict with the Numark mixer. I have heard a few people with this problem.
One issue that popped up is that the latency buffer is set too low and causing the distortion as it records and tries to playback what it is recording at the same time.
But odd's are really good that it is happening when the system is fighting to use the same resources for two or more different things.
Nov 16, 2007 03:34 pm Actually, as I start to think of it, my CPU was a bit stressed when the distortion occured. And the later recording was done with only one program open.
Nov 16, 2007 10:54 pm OH man, that is the whole problem then.
NEVER!!!! run your recording program with other programs running, even in the background. That is a major no no if there ever was one.
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