Pulling my hair out!

[spoonie g]

So Im running nuendo 4. I had a problem which I assumed was the sound card (echo layla 24) but am not so sure anymore. I was getting a problem where my left channels 1,3,5,7 were twice as loud as my right (2,4,6,9) and slightly distorted. So, I got a different sound card (m-audio 1010) and it worked briefly before it started doing a very strange yet similar thing:

The first time I record on a fresh start, everything is fine. Upon recording a second time (say for a second part, take, overdub, what have you) those newly recorded tracks have horrible digital distortion, regardless of the preamp, input source, cables, mics, etc. So basically, I'll get one take and have to restart nuendo or windows. Ive tried reducing the buffer size (from 256 to 128) and that seemed to reduce the distortion to some pops and clicks, but the audio quality seemed to suffer greatly.

This has slowed my sessions to a crawl and has greatly hampered sessions. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Details:

Windows XP
1 gig of Ram
Sp2
Not connected to internet

[mxeryus]

Yep, that's weird.
When was the last time you transfered files from another computer (via disk or CD or whatever) ? Any antivrus software installed ?
Check the event log (Control Panel/System) to see any strange things or conflicts.
Try another wall socket for your power supply (sounds silly.... but worth a try!).
Good luck!

[Jay-]

I had a similar issue with a PCI card like the one you spoke of.
It was like I was able to listen to the bowels of hell, strange horrible osculating and garbled madness from my PCI audio card.

It was some kind of IRQ issue.
At first I swapped my PCI card a slot over, rebooted removed the card and rebooted. I think it makes a registry change each time you do that.

Last cure is restore from a ghost image.
I think its from a new USB device.

However for $30 you can get 2 gigs of ~Fast ram~
I might recommend a Raptor HDD at 10,000 RPM and a third drive for media and samples.

Lastly I have had issues with new home appliances that suddenly kick in and drain my studio at strange times for power.
Its a long shot but for me issues that directly sound like yours.

It took some research and cleaver thinking before I found out that if TWO people in my home flush the toilets at the same time the water pump kicks in and shuts off my Firewire mixer and crashed N4 from a slight drop in power for a second.

A new Uninterruptible power supply and new 600 WATT PSU power supply fixed it for me.

[theblue1]

Heh.

I just answered your similar thread over at HC.

Well... answered is probably not the right word.

Offered an unlikely scenario for is a better phrase.

Anyhow, the first thing I could think of was that your playback might be getting routed into each new track as it was being recorded, increasing the chance of overs.

So I suggested muting track 1 so that you could see what was on track 2. Obviously if you could 'still hear' what was on track 1 while playing back 2, the'd got comingled.


Another airball possibilty that you've probably already checked out and dismissed: if track one was fairly hot and track two was fairly hot, playing back both simultaneously might put you over (in which case lower the track faders).

Anyhow. Like I said there: good luck!

[spoonie g]

Originally Posted by Jay-

I had a similar issue with a PCI card like the one you spoke of.
It was like I was able to listen to the bowels of hell, strange horrible osculating and garbled madness from my PCI audio card.

It was some kind of IRQ issue.
At first I swapped my PCI card a slot over, rebooted removed the card and rebooted. I think it makes a registry change each time you do that.

Last cure is restore from a ghost image.
I think its from a new USB device.

However for $30 you can get 2 gigs of ~Fast ram~
I might recommend a Raptor HDD at 10,000 RPM and a third drive for media and samples.

Lastly I have had issues with new home appliances that suddenly kick in and drain my studio at strange times for power.
Its a long shot but for me issues that directly sound like yours.

It took some research and cleaver thinking before I found out that if TWO people in my home flush the toilets at the same time the water pump kicks in and shuts off my Firewire mixer and crashed N4 from a slight drop in power for a second.

A new Uninterruptible power supply and new 600 WATT PSU power supply fixed it for me.

I tried another empty pci slot. No luck.

What do you mean restore from a ghost image?

I did try buying some new ram, but it didnt work and I waited too long to send it back. Could be a fix? I dunno.

[Jay-]

Originally Posted by spoonie g

What do you mean restore from a ghost image?

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Restore From a HDD back up of your entire system.

[spoonie g]

Originally Posted by Jay-

Restore From a HDD back up of your entire system.

ah, i dont think i have one....