Preventing skips during recording

anonymous 31 May 2010

Every time I record something, I get skips every so often. I probably get 5 or 6 for every two minutes that I record. I've taken the following steps to help get rid of it. Can anyone think of anything else that would help?

- Turned off wi-fi
- Turned off and killed antivirus and antispyware
- Closed all programs other than Cubase LE4
- Turned off standby, hibernation, and screen saver
- Killed unnecessary processes (in task manager)
- Recorded to external hard drive via USB

For reference, here's the laptop I'm working with:

2.6 gHz dual core processor
3gb RAM
Windows 7 OS

I'm also using a firewire card to connect my PreSonus Firepod to my laptop.

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1. What brand firewire card? 2. What speed is your external driv

apstrong Mon, 05/31/2010 - 18:23

1. What brand firewire card?
2. What speed is your external drive?
3. How many tracks are you recording when this happens? Does it happen regardless of the number of tracks?

1. SYBA SD-PCB-2F IEEE 1394 PCMCIA Card 2. 7200 RPM 3. It's happ

anonymous Mon, 05/31/2010 - 19:10

1. SYBA SD-PCB-2F IEEE 1394 PCMCIA Card
2. 7200 RPM
3. It's happened about the same amount for 1 track and 7 tracks.

Ok, HDD is fast enough. Load isn't an issue. But Syba website sa

apstrong Tue, 06/01/2010 - 01:39

Ok, HDD is fast enough. Load isn't an issue. But Syba website says that your firewire card is based on the NEC uPD72873 chipset, and the Presonus website says "Known incompatible hardware: Firewire cards with NEC chipsets. Symptoms include installation issues, erratic audio and extraneous static and noise." Try a different firewire card, preferably one based on a TI chipset.

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http://www.presonus.com/media/pdf/hardware_compatibility.pdf

Nice! Rarely is hardware incompatibility good news, but in this

anonymous Tue, 06/01/2010 - 19:35

Nice! Rarely is hardware incompatibility good news, but in this case it is. I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. Nice catch.

No sweat, let everyone know how it goes, hopefully that is indee

apstrong Tue, 06/01/2010 - 21:20

No sweat, let everyone know how it goes, hopefully that is indeed the problem.

Well, my firewire card took its sweet time getting here. Unfortu

anonymous Fri, 06/11/2010 - 21:15

Well, my firewire card took its sweet time getting here. Unfortunately, it did not fix the problem. It may have improved it a bit, but there are still a bunch of skips :(

Any other ideas?

It's your buffer setting. (skipping, weird distortions that happ

audiokid Sat, 06/12/2010 - 08:09

It's your buffer setting. (skipping, weird distortions that happen as the track plays) are signs of your buffer setting set too high for your requirements and/or DAW gear capabilities. Find buffer setting and set it higher, like 1024 and go from there. Lower it until it starts happening again. Then start reading the forums on how to improve your latency. One thing leads to another.
Note: higher buffer, more latency. Its a trade off. Its why we spend thousands on high end products. Welcome to the journey.