I have successfully been using Tracktion to record and then export the tracks into Pro Tools. There is no plug-in or any processing ... just tracking.
This past weekend, I recorded three sets of 20 tracks. The first set was fine.
The band took a break and I stopped the recording. I resumed the recording when the band returned from their breaks. The tracks completed the write process after each stop.
Unfortunately, all tracks were distorted and garbled for the second and third set. Even tracks with minimal audio (i.e. toms not being played) exhibited the distorted garbled audio.
The distorted garbled audio is present in Tracktion as well as in the exported tracks.
I am at a loss to explain what gremlin could have caused this ... making the tracks completely unusable.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Distortion & Garble After Tracking
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Peter Widdicombe Peter Widdicombe https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=336849
- KVRian
- 1214 posts since 29 Aug, 2014
Did you stop to listen after the first track, and perhaps alter a setting?
Did you turn stuff up/down at break that might have caused some overloading?
You didn't indicate the setup - how do you feed from board into tracktion - a simple stereo, or 16 track USB or firewire interface... Possibly the output from Tracktion was fed into one channel on the mixer that was now turned up and causing feedback back into the mix bus being recorded (but not on the bus of the mixer the band was hearing...).
Did you turn stuff up/down at break that might have caused some overloading?
You didn't indicate the setup - how do you feed from board into tracktion - a simple stereo, or 16 track USB or firewire interface... Possibly the output from Tracktion was fed into one channel on the mixer that was now turned up and causing feedback back into the mix bus being recorded (but not on the bus of the mixer the band was hearing...).
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 2 posts since 6 Apr, 2007 from Central VA
Hi Peter and thanks for your reply.
I did not listen to the first set after stopping the recording and nothing was adjusted during the break.
My setup has the audio tracks from the mixer via USB into a MacBook Pro. The routing on the mixer (A&H SQ5) did not have any USB input selected for playback as I only use Tracktion for recording.
What has me puzzled is that the first set recorded just fine ... all 20 tracks are free of distortion and garble. Strange, eh ?
I did not listen to the first set after stopping the recording and nothing was adjusted during the break.
My setup has the audio tracks from the mixer via USB into a MacBook Pro. The routing on the mixer (A&H SQ5) did not have any USB input selected for playback as I only use Tracktion for recording.
What has me puzzled is that the first set recorded just fine ... all 20 tracks are free of distortion and garble. Strange, eh ?
Bob