On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:23:58AM -0400, Rick Green wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Paul Davis wrote: > >> if the disk drive is in the line of fire when they start to play loud, >> it really will be unable to keep up. this has nothing to do with bit >> rates, but is (probably) caused by the the vibrations causing read >> failures which necessitate a lot of retrys, thus slowing down the >> effective streaming bandwidth of the disk. if the disk is kept out the >> way of direct incoming sound, the issue goes away. >> >> yes, really! >> > That makes more sense. In this case, the engineer was set up back in > the dressing room, much quieter than the music room. > Thanks for the tip. I'll add a spare mouse pad to my traveling rig, so > that when I'm recording from FOH, I can provide some isolation to the > drive from the vibrations of the table. I haven't experienced crashes > myself(yet!) during recording of up to 26 tracks via > firewire400(interface) and eSATA(drive). > I suspect you'll want more thick padding than just a mouse pad. Perhaps a 1" or 2" thick acoustic foam, like the kind they used to put in boxes that held line printers to keep the sound from driving people batty. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
