noise in my recordings

[jpw23]

Occasionally, I get glitches and noise in my recordings....the pc is an amd 1800 with 512 megs of ram....win 98 se platform....the software is emagic's soundtrack 24....the hard ware is a st audio c-port interface....10 i/o....with a sound card and optical i/o....anyone got a clue? btw....everything is analog up to the point that it reaches the interface..and I am very carefull to make sure that nothing is clipping.

[RealTone]

I've had my fair share of noise problems with the c-port. A work around was to earth lift any device connected to the interface, which is not really a safe option. Found myself trying to resolve other issues with the card, glitches,pops etc., ending up with more time trouble shooting than recording. I went over to a Motu 2408mkII 10 months ago and haven't looked back.

[TimOBrien]

You could also have ONE bad cable or connector.

It's a pain on intermittent problems, but you might want to strip off all your cables and start adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit.

[bassdude]

Are you talking digital glitches and noise like pops and stuttering/skipping audio? If you are you might try searching on DAW optimisation.

If you are having hum and other analog type noise problems it could be an interconnect problem. Go here for good info:-
http://www.rane.com/note110.html

[jpw23]

I don't have any electrical noises...the stuttering, popping, skipping kind is what I am dealing with mostly.......took care of a lot of it by going into the cmos setup and disabling everything I don't need....this seemed to help quite a bit but, still getting a few pops and such.....maybe a faster processer would help.

[named]

What about your audio preferences? Pop's and clicks are usually a result of buffer settings that need adjusting.

Named

[wockachucka]

Check out the following site. It's pretty definitive as to what TSR's you do and don't want in your MSCONFIG.
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

The search feature is awesome.

[jpw23]

Anyone remember the old days of dos?....things were better then!

[samigascon]

hi http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif in all my delta 1010LT card, ST Audio and Q10 cards, glitches and pops dissapear just moving the slider of graphic acceleration to the top left (disabling all graphics accelaration). Specially works on cubase, altough, of course, every graphic moves are slower. You should be sure too of having DMA enabled on every IDE device you have connected. hope it helps

[jpw23]

Thanks for all the help......looks like I've got the noise problem whipped....everyones advice added up to a solution! http://www.audioforums.com/forums/biggrin.gif