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BTW.. Your English is VERY good. I wish I spoke French as well as you speak English !!

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Multitrack recording. Just wanted to share…

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Thanks again Andreas. I’ll be doing some recording again in the next week or 2 and will be more careful next time.

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From what you are saying Andreas it could have been a number of things that I caused myself. My macbook was wifi enabled and it is usually connected to my home wifi. However, I have noticed a few times when the router to my QU16 is on (and I am home), that the wifi enabled equipment in the home connects to it as the strongest signal. It may have connected to the QU router and I didn’t realize. There also may have been background tasks running on my mac (I didn’t check).
Going forward I will always make sure to 1) turn off the wifi on the macbook, 2) make sure to close out all programs other than the one I am using to record, 3) turn off all cell phones and 4) as an extra precaution, turn off the home wifi whilst recording.

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I did some recording yesterday and could hear no latency -things appeared to be going well.
Recording isn’t really my thing but I do enjoy the process so my friend asked me to help him out.
I used the QU16 and because the session only involved drums, bass and guitar, I used Garageband because I am so familiar with it and it is all I need for this project. First time I had used the QU16 for more than 2 tracks. Used 8 tracks – 6 drum mics, guitar and bass.
Anyway….we had laid down the basic tracks for 3 songs – played them back and they sounded great – no issues. Then guitarist switched from his electric to acoustic guitar through DI box for song 4. Used different channel on desk. The band played the song straight through and everything sounded fine through the headphones. Then I played it back. The acoustic guitar started the song and after 4 bars a high pitched (maybe 8-9k) screechy/scratchy digital sound came through. It seemed to happen with the beat and got louder with the music volume. However it was intermittent.
I blamed the guitar because nothing else was playing during the intro but then I realized as I went through the tracks, it was there intermittently on different tracks throughout the song. It was in exactly the same place each time I played it back so it was definitely on the recording – but was not there when song was being recorded.
We figured it was a fluke and the band played the song again and there it was again (in different places).
So, what I did was – I disconnected my router from the mains because it is permanently attached to the mixer and sits on its own shelf in the rack for live use when I use my iPad. Then the guitar player removed his tuner pedal from the mix ( which wasn’t the problem otherwise the screeching would have been heard during the recording) and I saved the project and re-booted my macbook.
The band played the song once more – same instruments and no problems – playback was perfect.
Has this happened to anyone else?
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I’m not looking for perfection so for now this will be fine. If I continue to do more recording, maybe I need to investment in some equipment….

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Just spent some time checking it out and I couldn’t hear any latency at all. If there is any, I don’t see how anyone could tell. Thanks Bob…

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Thanks Bob… I’ll spend some time later today working it out – getting some recording done this weekend.

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Thanks….How would I set up local/USB routing like I do when I play back from hard drive? Do you mean use mix outs for monitors like I would live?

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And thanks to everyone for your help…

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Thanks for explaining why this happens Nicola.

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Yes I’m thinking that having the ability to see the errors detected could cause unnecessary concern if the errors shown do not seem to actually effect the recording.It would be nice to know what they actually meant. Bear in mind, the same amount of errors showed up on 2 different hard drives – both of which have been used many times for recording on the QU16 and have both been re-formatted as per A&H instructions.
I’ll try again this evening if I get time…

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And unless any of these are important to you….

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The update became available a couple of days before a 2 gig weekend. I chose not to update at that time and waited till the day after the last show.That way if anything went wrong it would give me plenty of time to correct things. I like to take my time with updates, making sure I re-format my drive each time and watching everything closely. Then I do a dry run at home making sure everything seems to work correctly.
As it happens, my update to v1.6 and my QuPad app update went perfectly as usual and I even took the opportunity to update to iOS 8 while I was at it. I had held off on the iOS update due to some things I had read on a couple of forums relating to problems running QUPad. All is good.

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I had same problem and realized that I needed to open the files fully – root files. I had help from a friend on Pro Sound Web Forum.
https://forums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/topic,151741.msg1391677.html#msg1391677

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