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Backpacking Solutions: Popping Noise. Wordclock? Digital Signal?

Subject: Backpacking Solutions: Popping Noise. Wordclock? Digital Signal?
From: "geopaul7" geopaul7
Date: Sat May 26, 2007 6:24 am ((PDT))
--- In  Scott Fraser <> wr=
ote:
>
>
> Probably not if it was a matter of simply transferring files. If it
> was a real time digital playback via SPDIF or AES/EBU into your DAW
> the clicks may have been a result of a wordclock mismatch between the =

> two devices.




Wow. Scott.  Thanks.

Perhaps I bungled it.  I have recently changed how I get the sound from the=
 DAT tape into
the editor.  In this instance, I did do a real time play back of a 16 bit, =
Message: 44.
Subject: 1 K recording,
and transferred it from my ancient Sony DAT via Sony proprietary SPDIF digi=
tal cable,
which went via a co-axial plug into an M audio device that transferred digi=
tal signal into
an optical cable, which then ran into my MAC G5 via optical TOSLINK.

I then resampled the signal at 24 bit and 96K, to dump it into the editor.

Could this have botched things up?

I suppose I should try some experiments and do a real time transfer at diff=
erent digital
specifications, or sample an audio signal coming out of the DAT.  I did not=
 do that because
of the desire to stay in the audio domain.

If there is a wordclock mismatch, then this shows you can get quality artif=
acts staying in
the digital domain.  I am sure most on this list are completely familiar wi=
th this, but I am
not.  I need to go research what wordclock mismatch is.

So much tech stuff to learn. Makes this fun, the vertical learning curve th=
at I suppose never
stops.

George Paul





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