Peter,
Thanks for confirming! I wonder why no one ever mentioned this to me on my posts last year?

Also, can you tell me why my input monitor sounds "digital grungy" at times? Never happens on an original tracking session, but upon future dubbing sessions after computer has been turned off/on. It sounds like some distortion setting has been applied to the vocal. When it happens I try rebooting, but does not cure.

I am hoping muting the Echo console inputs cures this also, but if it's something else that you heard about, please let me know.
thanx!
pete

PCH
About the Distorted/Grungy sounding input monitor;
muting Echo console did not cure the grungies. Why does input monitor work SO well on the original recording session, then refuses to work on ANY dub sessions???
I can open a new project and input monitor works like a champ, but when i try to dub into AnY existing session...NO GO.
What the hey??

I've double checked all settings:
recording /dubbing at 48K/24bit
tried disabling "Enable ASIO direct monitoring", no change.

What is the difference between original tracking sessions and later overdubs?

Please....Vegas is great otherwise.

We are unable to reproduce this problem.

Peter

Which input are you recording through on the Layla? If you are recording through any of the digital inputs then you must set the clock source to "s/pdif" in the echo console, so that the layla is using the external word clock of the source that the audio is coming from. If you are recording using the analog inputs then you should make sure the echo console is clock is set to "internal". For your grungy sound, it sounds like you're not following the basic rules of wordclock, therefore getting wordclock drift, causing distortion in the audio signal.

Here's some basic rules to go by when using digital I/O. There can only be one master clock generator, which should always be the source of where the audio is originating from. When playing back from Vegas and sending the audio out one of the digital outputs, make sure the Echo Console "input clock" is set to "internal", and if you are sending that signal to something like a DAT recorder, then the Dat recorder must be set to "External" clock. When recording audio coming in on the digital input, make sure the clock source (ie "input clock") on the echo console is set to s/pdif. The clock source where the audio is originating from must be set to "internal". If you are recording on the analog inputs of the Layla, then make sure the echo console clock is set to "internal".

Thanks Red for your advice, and PCM for your research,

I Use both digital (Via blackface ADAT & lightpipe) inputs and analog inputs when tracking.
Generally sending the drumkit thru my ADAT, then thru lightpipe into Layla digital in.
All other tracks go directly to Layla analog ins.
I have Echo console set to "ADAT" wordclock for this.

The last session, that I am using for test purposes, I ran ONLY analog inputs.
However, I DID leave the Echo Console wordclock to ADAT
rather than changing it to internal. That could be my problem.
I will check it when I get home tonight.

I have never used the SPDIF jacks...

Up till now, I have always left the wordclock setting on ADAT.
If I remember correctly I tried changing it to internal once, and got bad (no sound) results. But that was when recording using the ADAT lightpipe.

I still can't understand why wordclock set to ADAT would monitor correctly in the first session, but not later. But rather than ponder this, I will just try your suggestion.

I will pray that switching wordclock to internal fixes my problem.

Thanks a bunch!

No audio guru here but I've had a very similar problem with my lowly Firewire-410 on my laptop, recordings were absolutely distorted horrendously. I eventually tracked the problem down to running ASIO and the SoundMax drivers. Now the really annoying thing is WInXP seems to enable the SoundMax stuff after a reboot if the 410 isn't there, major pain for a mobile setup but I guess I can live with it.
Bob.

The digital mode switch should be selected ADAT optical and the clock set to Internal in the Echo console. The optical (lightpipe) out from the Layla should route to your ADAT optical input. This makes the Layla the master clock. The blackface ADAT's clocks were really crappy and would tend to drift a lot so its not surprising that you're having some problems. You'll have to experiment to see if this fixes the "phasy" input monitoring but regardless, I would NEVER use a blackface ADAT clock as a master if you've got something better and the Layla's clock is light year's better!

drbam