Topic: Horrible UA5 USB problem...

[joeshambro]

So I've found a really weird problem withmy UA5..

Last night, I go to a non-taping show (Christopher ORiley, classical pianist doing beautiful Radiohead transcriptions), sneak the full rig in and have the SR77's hid in some woodwork in the balcony.. I tape the whole show to my laptop, and when I check it after the show, it sounds like shit... no indication during the show it was happening.
I used it on tour for several months recording live into my Powerbook G3.  But now that I"ve moved to G4's, both in the studio and in the field, I"m having some serious trouble.  Unless something happened to the UA5 in between (very likely, as I just got the laptop a week ago or so)..

The sound jerks around, skips, has massive diginoise..  sometimes it slows down in pitch yet continues to record at the right speed.. it's very strange.

Happens both on my dekstop and laptop, so I'm thinking something is f'ed in the UA5 itself..


Any ideas?

Sample:

http://webpages.charter.net/jshambro/oriley1.wav

my apologies if the server's not working, there's been some problems today...

Thanks guys..

[caymanreview]

you smuggled in sr77s, ua5, and a g4 powerbook!

nice!

+T

[Lee]

shit, +T for brass balls!

don't know a thing about mac, so can't help you much.  Sounds like there might be another program hogging the system resources, though...

[Scuba Jeremy]

Random thought - sounds like hardware? Are there any problems with your USB cable? Bends or ??

[Sean Gallemore]

recording in the right bit/hrtz combo?

[joeshambro]

Yeah, everything appears to be right...

All the settings on the box are right, everything in Peak looks normal...  Very weird.

[InfiniteOhms]

you did'nt happen to run a backup did you? that sounds like a badass show.

[Scuba Jeremy]

Did the problem occur in your monitoring headphones, or only on your wav file?

[1st set only]

yep sounds horrible. I would try it again at home with everything set up the same.
Were there wires crossed? AC power? right drivers? Have you used this setup before?

[nic]

what OS you using? OSX or OS9?
OSX audio recording support is still "flaky-at-best"

[Chris K]

what recording software are you using....i am having seriuos issues with peak LE 3.2.1

sounds fine going in, but on playback there is all this crackling....very frustrating...