radiorog
10-30-2005, 12:58 PM
Had an odd thing happen yesterday that almost ruined a session. Maybe someone here can explain it.
I was doing a remote session, getting feed into my laptop from a sound system that fed a PA system in the main room. My system: P4M with 1 gig of RAM, Windows XP w/ SP2. Indigo audio card. Turned off everything I could think of (anti-virus, etc.) since I wasn't hooked up to the Web or any networks.
Everything was going great until some system message popped up on my machine – something about not being able to connect to a network, if I remember correctly. Anyway, I dismissed the message, and immediately noticed that the record meter was responding really slow. I couldn't stop recording to figure it out, so I just went and prayed I was still getting input.
When I reached a break point in the meeting I was recording, I stopped record, then immediately started agin, and everything seemed to be fine from then on.
When I listened to the file later, I discovered that the section of the take from the system message to the end of the take was at about half speed! Everything was there (thank goodness), but slowed down to almost 50%.
I set VariSpeed to 200% and the sound was back to normal – same fidelity, everything fine.
Anyone have any idea what happened? More important, any way to prevent it in the future?
Thanks.
Roger
I was doing a remote session, getting feed into my laptop from a sound system that fed a PA system in the main room. My system: P4M with 1 gig of RAM, Windows XP w/ SP2. Indigo audio card. Turned off everything I could think of (anti-virus, etc.) since I wasn't hooked up to the Web or any networks.
Everything was going great until some system message popped up on my machine – something about not being able to connect to a network, if I remember correctly. Anyway, I dismissed the message, and immediately noticed that the record meter was responding really slow. I couldn't stop recording to figure it out, so I just went and prayed I was still getting input.
When I reached a break point in the meeting I was recording, I stopped record, then immediately started agin, and everything seemed to be fine from then on.
When I listened to the file later, I discovered that the section of the take from the system message to the end of the take was at about half speed! Everything was there (thank goodness), but slowed down to almost 50%.
I set VariSpeed to 200% and the sound was back to normal – same fidelity, everything fine.
Anyone have any idea what happened? More important, any way to prevent it in the future?
Thanks.
Roger