I've been getting this in some of my recent transfers and I'm not quite sure what's causing it - hopefully someone here can help.
Basically, I'm getting what I can only describe as a "tabling" effect when looking at glitches that I hear in transfers I'm doing - the waveform will be going along just fine, and then suddenly there are maybe 15 or 20 samples that jump up or below above the rest of the waveform. Crappy ASCII rendition, assuming the flat line is the waveform and the anomaly is in the middle:
__________---------------__________
Anyone ever seen this before or have any idea what might be causing it? I don't think it's the deck because this has happened with all three of mine in different spots, and I don't think it's my cabling because I have both a coax and a 7-pin to coax.
Setup is a Mac G4/400, OS 10.2.8, Egosys U2A, recording with FeltTip Sound Studio 2.1.1b3. Plenty of RAM, all screensavers and HD spindown off, basically nothing goes to sleep. I recently defragged the entire 40GB drive and have about 20GB free. Ideas?
--Dave
EDIT: I *finally* figured out what was causing this - some bad RAM. Bought the piece of shit Kingston ValueRAM 512MB SDRAM less than a year ago and it's already worthless. Popped it out, ran a transfer, clear as a bell. Popped it back in, popped another one of my 64's out, snap-crackle-pop city. So if anyone ever experiences a similar problem, CHECK YOUR RAM!