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There is no change after adding the furman. The Neve is unreliable. I'm sad but I know what to do. I'm going to pull it from the rack and not look back.

Bummer!! Maybe a virus scanner?

I measure from the center of the snare to the mics using a mic cable so they are close. I use mautoalign by melda. It usually accurately tells me how far apart mics were. Kinda fun. You can tell if a mic was moved two feet to the left at Set break.

Thanks so much. The furman arrives tomorrow. I'll learn a lot after that.

This is all in my house. I've relocated a couple of times in the last five years. I've really struggled to keep recording, but i do play music with friends. I want the stuff to still work. After we moved into our current spot, some friends installed an ac unit at a cut rate and I'm grateful for it. Idk, but i suspect that it may draw more power than the old one and may strain our electrical system. It is close to my set up. That's why I tried running extension cords around the house. I was trying to see if another circuit might not have the problem. I can record for hours without issue, but at any time, it might go bad.

The behavior is that I start recording and everything is fine. At some point during the recording, 1 or more channels goes glitchy. The level drops a ton but might come back. https://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20250302_GeoffMark(4).wav https://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20250302_GeoffMark (1).wav https://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20250302_GeoffMark (3).wav https://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20250302_GeoffMark (2).wav Please excuse the awful music. The point is the recording. These tracks were recorded together. They should be one track through the compressor and one straight for each of two microphones. Where i plug in in the house seems to matter. If i run a cable to the garage, i have fewer issues, but i was recording the TV the other day just for a source and even plugged into the garage it happened. The neve preamp has 2 outputs for each channel. They do not always go bad in pairs. They do not go bad identically when both lines on one channel go bad. I have replicated the problem with the Neve plugged into the rme ucx and the Neve plugged into the audient asp 880. Neve let me mail them my preamp and they tested it and say it is fine. Just the rme does not mess up. Just the audient works fine. So, i think i have excluded the interface. I just have to think it is power. I have ordered a furman voltage regulator to try to get a handle on the problem.

I have had some power sags that impacted recordings. I'm looking at getting my first power conditioner. I'm looking for something that does not get too hot. Furman? Thoughts?

Interesting post, Kenny. Thanks.

I think this is a great idea. Probably silly, but i bought it to see.

I'm a melda productive user. I like the plugins. I started with mautoalign. There are lots of cool pluggins in the melda world.

Happy birthday!!!

I'm not sure my strings were flat wounds... they didn't seem to be wound at all. They were more like 6 unwound strings - super smooth - no finger whistle as you moved your hands.. They are under so much pressure they lifted the trem tail a little. Bent the neck. They were supposed to be for jazz, and I was doing Jazz lessons from Dave Stryker online through artist works. I even spent a week with him in the north carolina mountains at a sort of band camp. Great guy. He is a person i found easy to like. Anyway, I got a three pack and disliked the strings so much I took them off and forgot about them. Recently, I tried another set and that caused this chain of events. So really, it was Dave's fault.

Weird is how much I doubted myself. Had i not been using that tone knob for 30 years? Also odd I didn't go up the neck to test better. I watched some YouTube video about loaded pick guards (I didn't know they are a thing). I didn't test again in the morning. I just got the screwdriver and opened it up. I didn't take any pictures when it was open. I did clean it up. After 30 years, there was a surprising amount stuff under there. I basically just noticed the wiring looked solid and then googled for the screwdriver pot test. I demonstrated it works fine and screwed it back together. I guess for me the fact that I ran so very fast in the wrong direction is the shocker. No harm was done, thank goodness.

Ok. Really it had me doubting myself. Again, imagine me disassembling the guitar! The test i did ultimately could have been done with the guitar assembled. Tap the pickup with a screwdriver while turning the knob. I've been using those tone knobs for years. It was interesting to note that the back one appeared to be a stack of two. Looked like this... https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/0990847000--fender-dual-500k-250k-split-shaft-potentiometer My guitar came with gold lace sensor pickups. I bought it new in 1995.

Me and my dogs send our best.

The weird thing is the bridge pickup had noticeable changes to the tone. The neck did not.

I put daddario flat wound strings on my guitar... not my normal strings. I was demoing the tone knob to a friend, and it didn't work. I couldn't hear it. Neither could she. I disassembled the guitar. The tone knob works fine. New regular strings. We both hear the variance when adjusting the tone. Isn't this odd?

I put a tray in and moved the amp to the bottom.

Greg, One thing I've been doing is using a figure 8 pattern mic sideways to the amp as my vocal mic. Craig Anderton, thank you for this. No headphones required.

Hey Greg. 1 minute into this video billy hurme shares an eq curve he used for helping get s more natural sound in headphones. @DeeringAmps i love the total reset for rme interfaces. It saves my bacon again and again.

I practiced for an hour with a 96 buffer and no issues. Maybe the problem was only while new code was ngenning. Idk. The windows update was a temporary bump.

Any ideas for what to put in all these empty Us at the bottom of the rack? Computer is moved. Distortion is gone.

Shielding did not help the noise in the interface. I tried a cookie tray and some tin foil. If there was a difference it was not detectable. On the plus side, I practiced guitar for an hour at 256 without audible issues. I can just pull the PC out of the rack. It doesn't have to be in there. Still, it surprises me. There is a full u between the PC and the interface. I've actually made a lot of recordings like this. I never noticed. It is only the audient that picks up the interference. The rme is quiet as a mouse and my first 8 mics go there. Thanks to all who responded. Also, I have no idea which windows update. Whatever they pushed. I will say the touch screen works like a dream when enabled. Mixing with touch is cool.

I disabled my touch screen and that has helped. 48 or 96 or whatever does not matter. I can't run latency mon on this machine without buying it. They have blocked the non pro version for me for a while. I will buy it if it gets annoying enough. Interestingly, I racked my PC below one of my interfaces, and when I record silence and normalize I can hear my drives spinning. I'm going to try some shielding. I am ok in general. It is a bummer to have a set back, but hardly a big deal.

For me, sometimes I bounce the track before export and leave it rooted through the master bus. Maybe I normalize to a level and export. The problem is it gets all the fx on the master bus applied again. Route the bounce track to the interface directly and problem solved.