qu drive recording problems

[britz]

Hi can anyone help me im having problem with qu drive multitrack recording ,whenever i record i get error after every 1 or 2 minutes of recording. Ive updated firmware 1.9 and since then im having this problem before that i recorded with 1.7 firmware but i never had problems even with errors the recordings were sounding proper but now it skips after the error.

[Dick Rees]

I see two things wrong:

1. Not enough information provided to make more than a WAG and…

2. Citing a possible coincidental cause which can be a red herring to problem solving.

A longer story with more details will help. Include things like exact brand and model of recording media, formatting media and any attempts to do a fresh firmware update.
At least that mch is required if not more.

[britz]

when i do multitrack recording on my qu 16 i get errors in qu drive . i tried different usb sticks which are mentioned in the manual and ive formated them on my qu 16 but still im getting errors in my multitrack recording.and when i playback it skips. ive updated firmware 1.9 so is it because of the firmware?

[Greg]

You’re not alone, I’m experiencing something similar. I was a Qu-16 user for a good while, and then I switched to the QuPac when it came out. I never had any recording glitches with the Qu16, but I get them all the time with the QuPac.

I had assumed it was something hardware related. I was using the same USB drive (a 128 GB Kingston HyperX) on both Qu devices. Never had a problem on the Qu16, but I almost always get one or two errors on the QuPac.

I guess it could be firmware version related. I haven’t gone back and upgraded my Qu16 because I never use it any more…

I even switched from the HyperX to a USB drive (a 1 TB Intenso USB3.0 drive). The Intenso is noticeably faster, at least in terms of how responsive the QuPac user interface becomes (compared to the HyperX). But I still get the recording errors on the QuPac.

I’d love a solution to this. All it takes is a single recording error to wreck an entire song. It’s very frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Never managed an error on a SanDisk Wxtreme – even without regular formatting…

That’s on Fw 1.5 through 1.9 inclusive

[britz]

i never had this problem with firmware 1.7

[MarkPAman]

My experience is the same as Bob’s.

No errors ever with my SanDisk Extremes (both 32GB & 64GB)
from Version 1.{whatever the first one to support multitrack was} all the way to 1.9.
That’s on Qu-16 from when they started, and a Qu-Pac in the last couple of years.

[Al]

In the last few weeks I’ve experienced “error” messages while recording as well, but noticed that it might be correlated to instances of clipping.
With one “punky” band, I noticed that I got “error” messages during a song where the bassist banged hard on his strings, and caused a bit of clipping.
With another more “heavy metal” act, the singer had a vocal processor that he decided to turn the volume up on without warning me. This caused a few seconds of clipping before I could readjust my preamp gain.
In both instances, When I got a chance to mixdown the tracks, there were “hiccups” and “skips” almost exactly where the clipping had occurred.
Is this a known side effect of allowing clipping to happen while using the Qu Drive, and if so, might this explain the OP’s issue?

[MarkPAman]

Interesting – was this clipping the level going to the recording, or only clipping the input level?

[Al]

As far as I could tell, I would only “see” meter clipping indicators flash, which would prompt the adjustments on the gain settings.
At a certain juncture, I just happened to have my display screen on the QuDrive page, and noticed the “error count” tab up in conjunction with instances of the clip indicators flashing.
I wasn’t able to pick up on any discernible artifacts on the WAV’s themselves, other than for the “hiccuping/skipping”, which correlated to the moments just prior to the WAV noticeably getting “turned down”.
Purely circumstantial evidence, I know… but still.

[Andreas]

Just to remember that the clip indicator starts flashing at -3dBFS, so the digital signal still may be perfectly ok. I don’t think that clipping affects recording in any means. The QuDrive just writes data blocks to the disk, which should not depend on the “loudness of Bits” inside the data block.

[Anonymous]

I’ve written clipped signal without glitches (to confirm the 3dB measurement and the visual indicator from audacity)

[Cata]

Hello,
I experienced one problem with recording in QU-drive stereo. My record files .waw have very low audio level and need to normalize with other aplication on my PC. Hao I could control the recording level ? Thank you in advance !
Catalin.

[Anonymous]

New thread time, or maybe a forum search.
Levels depend on what you send to QuDrive – but they are also 24bits deep. So there is an insane amount of headroom/flexibility available.

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