Un soloing a track - Digital clip

Handsome wrote on 2/11/2004, 9:55 AM
When un soloing a track during playback, does anyone else experiance a digital clipping sound?

Does the Input Monitoring (with fx) actually work for anyone? If so, what system are you running vegas on?

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Athlon 1.4, 512ram, vegas 4, 16 tracks at 24/48 using a Layla 20 and a Layla 24 synced w/ word clock. newest asio drivers.

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PipelineAudio wrote on 2/11/2004, 9:26 PM
yup
In my case the UAD plugs usually did the UNsolo nasties, even crashing early versions of vegas 4. Other plugs and media will usually just pop or click when unsoloing but the UAD stuff would really hit hard
Handsome wrote on 2/12/2004, 5:26 AM
How do you like the UAD plugins? Am I missing out?
drbam wrote on 2/12/2004, 6:06 AM
On slower machines and using Windows 98Se (as opposed to XP) the solo/unsolo clipping noise is much worse. Also the cpu load seems to factor in - higher load = greater chance of noise.

Also - I thought that you could not successfully run the 20 and 24 bit Echo cards (via word clock) without problems. Is this incorrect?

Thanks,

drbam

Handsome wrote on 2/13/2004, 12:23 PM
I had to make the Layla 20 the Master.. and that fixed a lot of the problems. The 20 has an option for 'super clock'.. that made for some interesting sounds.. but I've tried to recreate the sounds (they were awsome) and it always does something different...??

I'm selling my 20 to my brother, and getting a second 24 (so I can go higher than 48khz.)
PipelineAudio wrote on 2/13/2004, 12:53 PM
the uad fairchild is nice. bgc seems to have solved his cpu munching, so maybe most of the problems are gone. I personally dont care much for UA's( the kids' not Bill Puttnam Sr.'s) whole philosophy. I think it directly led to the joke of realverb, dreamverb and nigel. And the unrealistic aliasing artefacts in the plugs and especially the pultec.

However, the la-2a and 1176 behave very well, and the fairchild alone is worth the cost
bgc wrote on 2/13/2004, 3:18 PM
whoa! aliasing artifacts? pipe have you run sweeps/tests to verify this? i'd be somewhat surprised if this were a big issue. tell me more!
(I'm a big fan of the pultec plugin, it does magical things for the top end of tracks)
bgc
PipelineAudio wrote on 2/13/2004, 10:55 PM
Run a pink noise thru any of the uad plugs, especially the pultec and youll see it. I think the pultec has it a little unfairly because of the up and downsampling it has to do. You can hear the same sort of effect on those www.simulanalog.com plugins which are also really great behavioural models as are the UAD plugs. The top end gets weird, Eric Bombfactory capitalized on it and said how the UA plugs dull the sound, of course in many cases you might just say "it warmed em up". Just sometimes it gets annoying, like the whole mix gets kinda dark and then you bypass the ua plugs and then theres the life again. But then again, sometimes not.
PeterVred wrote on 2/16/2004, 10:27 AM
I am just starting to use input monitoring, and No, it never did work well for me in the past. it does now with version 4.0e. it used to sound real "robotic" as vegas tried to simulate stereo, but now, setting the ASIO drivers to 128ms
it seems to work very well. and it seems that sometimes i have to reboot my machine to get it to work if i've been doing other things before opening vegas.

My system is:
AMD 2500+ (1.5ghz)
512mb DDR
80gb 7200 rpm maxtor
layla 24/96

Pete