Subject:Recording meters in SF8?

Posted by: sirshambling

Date:3/14/2005 9:37:31 AM

First use of SF8 not a very happy experience.

Tried recording an LP and when I clicked on the small "monitor" box on the Record window the meters went quickly up to the limit making a dreadful noise through the speakers without the Record button being touched. This happened whatever recording device I chose through Options/Preferences.

Anybody know how I can monitor the level of my recordings in SF8?

TIA. John.

Subject:RE: Recording meters in SF8?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:3/14/2005 10:26:03 AM

Go into the preferences menus and disable input monitoring. Options>Preferences>Audio tab This is enabled by default and when you click on the monitor button in the record window, where it enables the input monitoring by taking the input and routing it back out to your output. It sounds like you have a feedback loop in your monitoring.

BTW: I did caution them on this scenario for people like myself who use an external mixer and have used that previously to monitor during recording. My suggestion was to put an input monitoring switch on the record dialog window rather than in the preferences settings, this suggestion probably holds a little more water now.

Red

Subject:RE: Recording meters in SF8?

Reply by: Kanst

Date:3/15/2005 8:03:40 AM

And what means levels upper 0 dB on new play meters?

Subject:RE: Recording meters in SF8?

Reply by: Sonic

Date:3/15/2005 8:26:52 AM

If you are talking about the play meters, it still means you're clipping, it just tells you by how much.

(Note, this only works when the "Use floating point temporary files" general preference is enabled.)

J.

Subject:RE: Recording meters in SF8?

Reply by: sirshambling

Date:3/15/2005 8:36:32 AM

Thanks Red - that did the trick. I assumed when I looked at this setting that it allowed me to monitor the level of the input as I usually do. Silly me to think that "input monitoring" meant something else!

John

Subject:RE: Recording meters in SF8?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:3/15/2005 11:10:27 AM

" I assumed when I looked at this setting that it allowed me to monitor the level of the input as I usually do."

Yep, and that was it's only function in previous versions, now it has dual functionality, and if you aren't aware of it the first time you start trying things out it may bite you in the foot, as you found out with the feedback loop in your setup. I still think something needs to be added to the record window to be able to turn this on or off. You where the first, but I'm sure you won't be the last to either run into a feedback problem or a multiple signal monitor situation causing some strange phasey monitor playback, when recording.

Red

Subject:RE: Recording meters in SF8?

Reply by: sirshambling

Date:3/15/2005 11:41:30 AM

I'm sure I won't be the last as you say.

There must be other major changes to the way recording works as well - I've posted another thread about muti-tasking which used to be possible with SF7 but with SF8 I'm getting short freezes on my PC which cause drop outs in the recordings I'm making.

And I thought that a new version would improve matters... Oh well!

John..