Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:41 pm
I have only scanned a few seconds of this still. There is an issue of some sort.
So the firebox has firewire and 1/4" analog outputs. What type of DAT deck did you use? What connections? I really hope that Marty's sounds okay. You can tell that it is a nice recording beside the error.
I've heard artifacts like this before. There is a grainy quality as an artifact. I think I have heard it when an AD converter is sending 48k and the recording device locks to 44.1k (or vice versa). Some recording devices that record 16bit cannot deal with a 24bit signal. So sometimes if an AD converter is sending 24bit signal and one of these units is looking for 16bit you'll get artifacts like this. But in this case I have to assume you were coming out of the 1/4" analog outputs.
Josephson C42MP (balcony) > Presonus Firebox > DAT > digi-in on Mac G5 > Peak 5.2 (normalized) > FLAC
So the firebox has firewire and 1/4" analog outputs. What type of DAT deck did you use? What connections? I really hope that Marty's sounds okay. You can tell that it is a nice recording beside the error.
I've heard artifacts like this before. There is a grainy quality as an artifact. I think I have heard it when an AD converter is sending 48k and the recording device locks to 44.1k (or vice versa). Some recording devices that record 16bit cannot deal with a 24bit signal. So sometimes if an AD converter is sending 24bit signal and one of these units is looking for 16bit you'll get artifacts like this. But in this case I have to assume you were coming out of the 1/4" analog outputs.