I'm a laptop taper and the past two times I have taped Lotus, I had to set up somewhere near the subwoofers. Both times, the log file my recording program generated said I had buffer underruns almost every minute and thus dropped samples. The first time, I thought it might have been due to my drive not having a ton of free space, but I had 8 GB free last night, so that shouldn't have been it, plus this sounds feasible.
How can I prevent this in the future if I don't have a choice in setup location? I set up on a towel this time, but didn't expect it to do much (it's not like I can prevent the sound travelling through the air). I think the buffer is maxed out, so that's out as a solution. Thanks for the help!
maybe isolation/vibration control products made for home audio like turntables, etc? might search AudioAsylum tweaks/diy for cheap solutions.
Quote from: MattD on September 24, 2004, 11:55:59 AM
I'm a laptop taper and the past two times I have taped Lotus, I had to set up somewhere near the subwoofers. Both times, the log file my recording program generated said I had buffer underruns almost every minute and thus dropped samples. The first time, I thought it might have been due to my drive not having a ton of free space, but I had 8 GB free last night, so that shouldn't have been it, plus this sounds feasible.
How can I prevent this in the future if I don't have a choice in setup location? I set up on a towel this time, but didn't expect it to do much (it's not like I can prevent the sound travelling through the air). I think the buffer is maxed out, so that's out as a solution. Thanks for the help!
ive got an extra laptop bag (one of the thinner targus laptop bags with nice padding on the bottom) that you can have. i think setting up inside of that should help the vibration. i know it does on bumpier plane rides.
Also you may want to avoid setting up next to subwoofers with a laptop. You may be having problems with the magnets inside them, not the vibrations.
yea, i've heard of issues with the HD's in the FR2 doing the same thing. isolate it as much as possible i've seen good results by surrounding the FR2 with a bunch of foam surrounding it. good luck.