[DavecParticipant]

No one? I have another FB gig on Saturday and still perplexed as to how to get the best feed

[DavecParticipant]

We have signal! Awesome, thanks peeps 🙂

And @nzdave, cheers, yup I’m locked down in ak.

[DavecParticipant]

Sweet, that’ll do. I use an ipad for bigger shows, but sometimes it’ll be nice to have the mixer in my pocket. 🙂

[DavecParticipant]

I just right-clicked the drive, properties, then tools and used the error-checking tool there. I think it’s the old chkdsk. Anyway, it created 18 files chk0001, chk0002 etc, or something similar. This is Win7.

[DavecParticipant]

I did the same thing. I used windows disk tools (right click on the drive) and it recovered 18 large files. I managed to recover them as WAV files them in Audacity, importing them as RAW files and filling out the details. There’s a thread about it here with the settings you’ll need.

It’s raining here in Greenhithe.

[DavecParticipant]

Thanks for the reply. It seems to be 1,2, or 3, depending on the track. I’ve got 12 1.7gb files to sort, so it might take a while to confirm

I found this on another forum;

***********Since the file is 24-bit you may have to shift the data by one or two bytes to get it aligned. (There are 8 bits per byte, so you have 3 bytes per sample (per channel).

I’ve been experimenting with XVI32 and Audacity (I normally use GoldWave) and I found a much easier way to deal with data-shift! (I’m using Audacity 1.3.9)

With Audacity, File -> Import -> Raw Data. Click on the file and when the dialog box opens-up you’ll see Start offset. Try values of 0, 1, and 2. *************

Dave

[DavecParticipant]

Yes, I did a good long long and loud session on Saturday night with my Sandisk extreme 32g – no problems.

[DavecParticipant]

+1. It might solve some of these problems too. I don’t use any more than ten tracks, and I don’t need the stereo tracks.

[DavecParticipant]

Lesouvage, what were the volume levels like near the mixer?

[DavecParticipant]

On the hard drive.

[DavecParticipant]

Damn, not so soon. I just noticed skipping at the end of the four-hour recording. That side of stage had two extra guitarists added to it around about then. Maybe, as folk here have suggested, it’s spl as well.

[DavecParticipant]

I’ll have a large! 🙂
The worst part was transferring it to my PC via USB 2. 2 hours!

Might be time for a USB 3 drive.

[DavecParticipant]

Progress! Looks like the vibration is the key. The session where I had skipping on I had the hard drive on a barrel on the wooden stage. Last night I recorded a four hour session that was VERY loud. I had the hd on a towel under the mixer on a bench on a concrete floor. No skipping.
That was a Seagate drive.
I also did two 40 minutes sessions to a Sandisk 32g extreme, no problems.
Yay!

[DavecParticipant]

I did 45mins on a sandisk extreme 32 gig. Worked fine, but a very quiet gig.

Any thoughts on 3 1/2″ drives anyone?

[DavecParticipant]

A couple more questions: would a 3 1/2 in powered hard drive be more reliable? And, why does it record 18 tracks whether they’re being used or not? Surely if we could set the number of tracks down it would help.

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