Gswitz

I have a hum and I'm struggling to run it down. My devices are... RME UCX RME Quad Mic Pre Audient ASP 880 RNeve 5211 DBX 162 (I get the hum when it's completely removed. Currently, it's wired in to the patch-bay and unplugged.) All my stuff is wired through a patch bay which makes this trickier. It's most apparent on the Neve. This has a ground lift. The ground lift doesn't solve or impact the problem noticeably. With only the RME plugged in or with everything plugged in, RME channels 1,2,3,4 have no hum. I wire the RNeve output to channel one on the RME and turn it on and I can see the hum. I try lifting the ground on the Neve and I still have hum (there's a switch on the back). There was no noticeable change. I try one of those 3 prongs to 2 prongs for the Neve and I still have the hum. With the Neve unplugged, only the RME and Audient plugged in, I crank the gain on the Audient channels and see a little hum. It is less than the hum from the Neve but less gain too. I can do the same on the RME Quad Mic Pre, but it is less than the hum from the Audient almost not noticeable on the spectral analyzer. Pulling everything apart to trouble shoot this is going to blow. Any direction to efficiently find the problem is welcomed. Honestly, I've never had noticeable hum before. I caught it recording the ribbons with tons of gain a couple of weeks back. I wouldn't say the hum is loud, but who wants hum? I usually have everything plugged in to the same power strip but I tried separating the plugs and saw no improvement. I think my next step is to isolate the Neve and the RME so that they are only plugged in to each other and see if I get any hum. Totally pia to unplug everything, but it seems like my only path forward. I guess unplugging is easy. ? Wiring it back up is going to be a herculean task. I tried running the output of the Neve to input 1 on the RME UCX without going through the patch-bay. This did not help.

You do it twice and the better musicians take it as a key shift and follow... you can never go back. ?

Problems with video usually come down to having proper codecs accessible. Windows 7 came with lots of modern codecs. Since then, very few. Video features haven't changed much since then. If you have the capacity to convert the Video file type, give that a try... Then import again. You will hate this, but wmv might work.

Ok. That makes sense to me. Totally cool. Glad you got it sorted out. Thanks for the info.

In case it helps.

You aren't going to explain?

I drive an accord. I have to take out the spare sometimes when i load up. Ha ha

Absolutely.

Kurre, Singing drummers are such a recording challenge! And so many want to sing. ? Bit, I'm so so sorry. Sucks to put your heart into a collective work and have others abandon it. There's always s bright side, but hard to know where the sun might rise.

Do you have fx on the channel? If yes, hit e to disable and see if you still have the problem.

Glad you got it all set up. Have fun!

Put TH3 in the regular FX bin and enable it for midi input from the drop down at the top of the effect. Then route your midi from a midi input track to the TH3 output item. Then open the TH3 VST and use midi learn. Click the wah wah and choose learn, touch the midi controller then click ok on the midi learn. That's all you have to do.

Yes, what Craig describes works great, but slightly changes the pitch, if I understand him correctly.

Jim always says clock speed is most important in daws, but you have to consider the whole picture.

Back in 1995 Ed Rudman from laughing hands taught me that way. I played down strokes for ages. He was a great teacher and friend.

X toggles aim assist.

I haven't seen fast biker boy in ages. Anyone know how he is? He made the video linked in the thread.

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Try a different USB port?

@Craig Anderton you make me laugh! Depending on your hard drive type, defragging may be advice from the past. Ssds don't really require defragging. Older users tend to run virus scanners. If you don't need it, uninstall it. I have not bought third party scanners since around 2000. Windows defender needs configuring to stay out of the way of your daw. You don't want windows scanning all the new wave files every time you hit stop or bounce a track. Children have great success with lots of machines because their use-case is different. While gamers work cpus, they are not doing it concurrently with capturing gigs of real time data. If you have to wait a second for the next game world to load it doesn't really matter. Honestly, mac, Linux, Windows... They all work fine if you buy the right thing and set it up properly. Like so many today, i make my living as a computer expert. I'm good at what i do. That said, i don't build daws for a living. That is why i bought a studio cat pc from @Jim Roseberry. He does. I couldn't resist tweaking it after i got it. I've added to it over the years... 7 or 8 years maybe? I have no regrets. It makes me smile when i work that horse hard enough to hear all the fans blow. Did it last night exporting these videos... http://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20190630_ChrisVasi.html I use Linux and widows. I can use the same hardware for both. I boot to Linux using a ssd usb drive. Mixbus has some cool features and work flows. Check out Ubuntu studio if you are interested. With wine and Carla, you can use most third party vsts [like melda]. Only mixing, computer requirements come way down. Put your buffer to the max and have fun with a 25 year old pc. ? Recording large track counts live is a little different. No room for error. Honestly, i don't use cakewalk for that. If there is a problem, I don't want the recording to stop. @Noel Borthwick maybe a keep recording no matter what button would be a nice thing to have. Capture what you can, mark missed audio... Let me fix it later [or cut it]. Keep in mind you only need one good working solution. Like only needing one spouse. Once you are paired up, you can forget hunting forever.

Perhaps plug in a mouse in the USB and see if you can replicate.

Broken mouse?

I haven't seen anything like that except caused by IO drop-outs. Pop open task manager. Is anything using your hard drive competing for resources? Do you have 500 takes on each track?

So many people aren't sure if there's a moon landing. Those people are such suckers. As if there's a moon!

That was awesome. Until now, I didn't really have a picture of how the spectral analysis tools work. I think this is in part explains why when you take a pure sine at 440 and look at most of the spectral analysis tools, the spikes are not as narrow as I would expect. I would expect a very precise spike that goes sharply up and sharply down. But if you tighten your time window, your uncertainty increases which is why bars to the left and right of the actual frequency also rise with the primary bar. It also explains why drawing weird eq curves is expensive. I'm guessing the EQ tools apply a proportional adjustment to the curve using the same technique. Kinda cool. ? G