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So I've been working on a project for a customer with a deadline. Not much time for the project and deadline closing in. Got all the tracks in and started working on the vocal track. This was a live recording. When I checked the vocal track it sounded distorted as if it had been overloaded or heavy saturation vs the normally pristine clarity. Swapped mics, cables, even loaded a new project. It seemed to be getting worse.
Frustrated, I shut it off and took a break.
Coming back a while later it had the same distorted sound. I decided to export it to check the results. It didn't sound good. I'm thinking there's no way I'm going to make this deadline. The song is required to be radio ready and this wasn't happening.
Next thing I know, I lost my speakers but the sub kept working. They just stopped and nothing in the headphone out either.
At this point I'm thinking that my Scarlett died. The distortion and now outputs 1&2 gone. I figured I'd swap cables and outputs 3&4 did work. I was able to get the project finished.... Mixing and polishing without a sub.
I discovered that somehow, I don't know what happened or how, but in the Scarlett control panel, the mute on 1&2 was engaged. I clicked it off and the outputs went back to work.
Unexplained:
1. how it was muted on its own.
2. Where the distortion was coming from.
Well.... That project is done and submitted on time.... So the panic is not an issue.... But we'll see what happens when I turn it on the next time.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Any possibility that the DAW/PC could be harboring corrupted temp files? Unlikely no doubt but I’ve run into input issues with my Scarlett where nothing but a computer reboot resolved it. Big ole FWIW
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Any possibility that the DAW/PC could be harboring corrupted temp files? Unlikely no doubt but I’ve run into input issues with my Scarlett where nothing but a computer reboot resolved it. Big ole FWIW
Bud I actually shut down the computer and cold booted both it and the interface several times. Then I thought that perhaps the first Cakewalk file was corrupted so I created a brand new one importing the raw WAV files and starting a new vocal track. I thought maybe the distortion was coming in during the pitch correction print process. It was clean at this point and then it was printed as a stereo wave. This is really a puzzlement. Needless to say I will be keeping a very close eye on what it's doing as I am moving forward with newer projects.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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FWIW, I was having really bad distortion at times during both recording and playback.
As luck would have it I tried to use my old Roland JV880 in a song and all I got was terrible distortion out of it. When I took that unit out all of my distortion problems when away and have stayed away for a few months now. Apparently something was either triggering the JV 880 or it decided to make noise on its own even though it wasn't being use in the song.
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I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................"
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I had distortion and dropouts on my 1st gen. Scarlett interface using windows 10 on an old laptop. After changing pc and upgrading to windows 11 everything works fine again. BTW I still don't fully understand the mixer, and sometimes select the wrong things, losing one channel or the other.
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...................... BTW I still don't fully understand the mixer, and sometimes select the wrong things, losing one channel or the other. If this was addressed to me the answer would be many times I have all inputs activated so I can use more than one MIDI controller,i.e. wind, keyboard, etc. If that was the case in my answer, I really don't remember, that would explain why the JV880 had an active line to my DAW. I hope this explains it.
I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................"
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A quote from a forum member whom wants to talk to you Herb:
"'an evo user i know that runs successfully evo with biab/rb has been trying to reach you but your message box is full up please clear it out.'"
Maybe he can help sort out the problem.
I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................"
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A quote from a forum member whom wants to talk to you Herb:
"' your message box is full up please clear it out.'" Thanks.... I rarely look at it.... it's cleaned up a bit now
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Panic over something weird Thank you for an excellent song title, Herb  Glad you got the problem fixed!
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