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Title: DAT transfer problem
Post by: Albix714 on November 05, 2005, 01:12:53 PM

Hello,

We come up with skips in recordings after transfering the Master DAT's.

When I say skips, I mean they sound just like skips on a record.

When I check the tracked and flac'd filesets for SBE's, there are none.

Here is the typical lineage:

DAT > Sony 2600 > Hosa Coax > Dio 2448 > Cool Edit > 1 WAV file > Cool Edit (Amplify the levels 3, 6 or 10db... and maybe even higher) > CD Wave Editor > Flac Fronted > FLAC16.

There master DAT doesn't seem to OK. I beleive the errors show up after the transfer.

Could they occur during the amplifacation with Cool Edit?

Thanks for any help.

Title: Re: DAT transfer problem
Post by: Steve J on November 05, 2005, 03:06:56 PM

Do you hear these skips in the master WAV after you've done the initial transfer? I don't use CEP; but I have experienced "skips" in transfers before, usually because another program was running on the computer; and that program was drawing resources at the time of the transfer.

Title: Re: DAT transfer problem
Post by: MarkyMark on November 30, 2005, 12:20:03 AM

Try increasing the DMA buffer size in the control panel and check to see if CoolEdit has enough resources to work with (RAM, scratch HD space, etc). Those are typically the culprits when errors occur in transfers.

Title: Re: DAT transfer problem
Post by: Albix714 on November 30, 2005, 12:28:33 AM

It turned out it was a bad coax cable. Thanks.