M-Audio Firewire 410 Spdif External Clock Problem
Gear:
Mac OSX 10.4.8
Logic ver. 7.2.3
M-Audio Firewire 410 ver. 1.8.1-3
V-drums
external clock
external clock necessary?
should you use an external clock to connect a digital mixer to a computer?
Yamaha aw4416 mixer ---> ADAT lightpipe ----> RME hammerfall PCI soundcard ----> PC.
(the Yamaha and the RME both have BNC word clock connectors by the way)
External Clocking, Jitter and Sound Revisited
In the new issue of Tape Op, Bob Katz of Digital Domain states that "99 times out of 100, the INTERNAL clock in a converter will produce lower jitter and thus better sound than if you clock that converter externally from the most stable wordclock generator in the world! The reason: A crystal oscillator is much stabler than a phase locked loop.