So as it goes I built a DAW.
Specs:
ASUS P5AD2-E DELUXE INTEL 925XE
PENTIUM 4 640 (3.2G)
2 gigs of Kingston Ram
2-120g western digital, IDE
Lite-ON CD burner
Asus DVR burner
video Card: ASUS EN6600-TD128 128MB DDR PCI EXPRESS W/TV & DVI
Antec silent case/380W powersupply
Purchased myself a new Presonus Firebox, a few good mics, and started using Cubase LE.
Now the trouble begins. Initially everything seemed fine, but then I started to notice something in the background, something that responded odd to low frequences ie. bass guitar/low synth notes/bass vocals. It doesn't seem to pick it up in a full band setting, or when volume levels stay at normal, it gets worse as a note fades. Its so hard to describe, but in a way it sounds a bit like a glittery "eewweewwwwweeeewww" But its shifts, like a really slow wave. IT IS NOT CONSTANT and mostly likely is not a 60Hz hum, only there when low frequencies come in. It also seems to picks up the mouse movements, especially when using the scroll, it at such a low level and frequency its hard to tell. It does NOT do it when it just plays back mp3 from bands or when I use VSti. ONLY when recording, but also in playback of that recording.
So I troubleshoot....
1) It was in the 2 different headphones and the monitors, so scratch them.
2) Tried a senheiser 421, 2 different rodes condensors, and a shure sm58, nope
3) I unplugged from my mixer, went direct into presonus, still there.
4) Download abelton live demo, in abelton and cubase.
5) Changed from wireless mouse/keyboard, to standard, still there.
6) removed USB Midi in/out, still there.
7) Changed Firewire ports, nope
8) reinstalled Presonus drivers, changed latency, nope.
9) Borrow the SAME presonus firebox from a friend, nope.
10) Moved Computer from home to work where we do radio/audio stuff, Nope.
Please note I did initially have it connected to the internet, but I still got it after if was disconnected.
I see alot of this stuff about IRQ conflicts, I seem to have none, plus the audio card is outside of that whole area, RIGHT?
The last thing I can possibly imagine is the computer in someway. Its about 4 months old and I have just mainly been using for VSTi's and such, so I may be "clogged" with whatever?
I am planning on trying this...
http://www.pcaudiolabs.com/winxp_tweaks.asp
My only question with that is I was going to reformat the 2 drives that are in there, adding 2 more and creating a RAID setup, but in the first step of that Tweak it says skip the installation of RAID drivers, can I still implement it later on? I am not super familiar with RAID yet.
Any help or insight before hand on any of this would be much appreciated.
thanks for anytime you give towards this
Brian
Specs:
ASUS P5AD2-E DELUXE INTEL 925XE
PENTIUM 4 640 (3.2G)
2 gigs of Kingston Ram
2-120g western digital, IDE
Lite-ON CD burner
Asus DVR burner
video Card: ASUS EN6600-TD128 128MB DDR PCI EXPRESS W/TV & DVI
Antec silent case/380W powersupply
Purchased myself a new Presonus Firebox, a few good mics, and started using Cubase LE.
Now the trouble begins. Initially everything seemed fine, but then I started to notice something in the background, something that responded odd to low frequences ie. bass guitar/low synth notes/bass vocals. It doesn't seem to pick it up in a full band setting, or when volume levels stay at normal, it gets worse as a note fades. Its so hard to describe, but in a way it sounds a bit like a glittery "eewweewwwwweeeewww" But its shifts, like a really slow wave. IT IS NOT CONSTANT and mostly likely is not a 60Hz hum, only there when low frequencies come in. It also seems to picks up the mouse movements, especially when using the scroll, it at such a low level and frequency its hard to tell. It does NOT do it when it just plays back mp3 from bands or when I use VSti. ONLY when recording, but also in playback of that recording.
So I troubleshoot....
1) It was in the 2 different headphones and the monitors, so scratch them.
2) Tried a senheiser 421, 2 different rodes condensors, and a shure sm58, nope
3) I unplugged from my mixer, went direct into presonus, still there.
4) Download abelton live demo, in abelton and cubase.
5) Changed from wireless mouse/keyboard, to standard, still there.
6) removed USB Midi in/out, still there.
7) Changed Firewire ports, nope
8) reinstalled Presonus drivers, changed latency, nope.
9) Borrow the SAME presonus firebox from a friend, nope.
10) Moved Computer from home to work where we do radio/audio stuff, Nope.
Please note I did initially have it connected to the internet, but I still got it after if was disconnected.
I see alot of this stuff about IRQ conflicts, I seem to have none, plus the audio card is outside of that whole area, RIGHT?
The last thing I can possibly imagine is the computer in someway. Its about 4 months old and I have just mainly been using for VSTi's and such, so I may be "clogged" with whatever?
I am planning on trying this...
http://www.pcaudiolabs.com/winxp_tweaks.asp
My only question with that is I was going to reformat the 2 drives that are in there, adding 2 more and creating a RAID setup, but in the first step of that Tweak it says skip the installation of RAID drivers, can I still implement it later on? I am not super familiar with RAID yet.
Any help or insight before hand on any of this would be much appreciated.
thanks for anytime you give towards this
Brian
