Hello everyone...great site very interesting.
My name is Laurence Hipkiss (Lozz) and I have been home recording for many years. A few years ago I built a project studio in my garden (cos my young son needed the bedroom I was in and so I had to move out). You can see a photo of the outside of the studio at
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I record mainly acoustic music and a weekly podcast show
Blackcountrypodcasting.com.
I have a problem with my Intel Mac regarding power spikes and clicks and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on it.
I have just bought a RME Fireface 800 to use with my Mac and I have decided to finally start to use Logic Exprerss 7 which I have had for ages but never used. Previously I have been using a Mackie 24 track hard disk recorder.
When I hooked up my RME and first opened Logic to transfer some analogue audio from my Mackie I noticed "spikes" appearing on the armed tracks in Logic (no audio was present). These clicks (spikes on the screen) happen about 2 or 3 times every minute.
I have used my project studio for about 5 years and never noticed any problems with mains power before when using the Mackie and even when I used Garage Band on the Mac all seemed OK.
Can the only answer be power spikes....or do firewire interfaces cause trouble of this sort (I've never owned one before...previously I have used a Tascam US122L).Or could it be something else.
I'm pretty sure I have everything conigured right plus all the latest drivers. My Mac is running with a 3ghz dual core and 4 gig RAM so latencty is unlikely to be the cause and anyway I have tried various settings.
Anyone any thoughts?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
Lozz