PC noise when recording - I'm totally stumped

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:09 am

OK, the M-Audio recommended PCI Firewire card arrived today and...

Totally fixed my problem. Can't believe I spent a whole day scratching my head like a stubborn idiot before I thought about spending £13 on a PCI card.

Thanks everybody for your advice and support. I'll update the first post with the solution to make it easier for any future readers.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:55 am

Hooray!

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:45 pm

Yeah I bought a firewire card for my FP10 that had TI chip and was a combo. I had to eat the return 15% restock fee and buy a TI FW400 only card. was cheaper also so with the restock it pretty much washed so at least the new card worked.

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:33 pm

Thanks for letting us know, I might be having the same problem, which model M audio card did you get? thanks!

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:19 pm

quadrivium,
Which one of the two cards you referred to in a previous post require firewire?

Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:53 pm

space

the creativ extigy is an older usb outboard, the diamond xtreme is a pci card. I have narrowed the problem down to the clock settings between the korg mixer and the pci card... the line in on the pci card will record good quality audio from the monitor outs on the mixer, but the spdif out from the mixer to the card produced strange results. I am going to try to determine what the exact spdif settings need to be etc...

Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:55 pm

my point exactly...neither is firewire so this is not the same concern Smile

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:22 am

This is the firewire card that ultimately worked for me:

PYRO PCI 64R2

I have 64bit so it was one of the only ones I could find.

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:19 am

Eric, thanks for the info on the card, a lot less expensive than others I was looking at.

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:14 pm

Space wrote:

my point exactly...neither is firewire so this is not the same concern Smile

Space I'm not sure what exactly your point is about this, the thread is about noisy sound cards, what's your point?

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:17 pm

My point must be, pointless.

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:12 pm

I think the point Space was shuffling around is that you have two sound interfaces: a cheap pci gaming card and a cheap usb gaming card. Neither of which will benefit from a firewire card because neither of them can plug into a firewire card. You don't think that it's strange that you are so concerned about a firewire card that up to this point, you can't use anyway? If you do intend to buy a firewire interface to plug into that firewire card, you did not make that clear.

I'm assuming it was a simple miscommunication.

Quote:

the spdif out from the mixer to the card produced strange results

What exactly were the results you got?

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:43 pm

hueseph wrote:

I think the point Space was shuffling around is that you have two sound interfaces: a cheap pci gaming card and a cheap usb gaming card. Neither of which will benefit from a firewire card because neither of them can plug into a firewire card. You don't think that it's strange that you are so concerned about a firewire card that up to this point, you can't use anyway? If you do intend to buy a firewire interface to plug into that firewire card, you did not make that clear.

I'm assuming it was a simple miscommunication.

Quote:

the spdif out from the mixer to the card produced strange results

What exactly were the results you got?

a cheap pci and a cheap usb? the card that solved the problem was $26

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:49 pm

Now that I think about it, I was pretty direct...I didn't shuffle Smile

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:38 pm

Space, I apologize for my earlier post.

It appears you were right on, kudos to you!

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