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Serious gear question (le gasp!)


mikelpanky

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So, I just got my new Firestudio Project which had a whole new-to-me set of I/O, S/PDIF. I've never used it before, but my Lexicon reverb has S/PDIF out, and that's 2 inputs I can't use otherwise, so I went out and bought a digital coax cable (which I assume to be the same as S/PDIF, could be my problem). I hooked it all up, and the reverb came back sounding seriously digitized/downsampled. Like a bad old sampler. Any clue what the issue? Is that just how S/PDIF sounds? I really don't know what I'm playing with here. :rolleyes:

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It'll sound like that if the transmitter and receiver don't agree on the clock frequency. I've experienced it myself hooking up my Virus from its S/PDIF output to my RME. Not only did they have to agree on the clock rate, but I had to actually let the Virus be the clock master, otherwise the ever-so-slightly different clocks in both units would introduce an audible, periodic ticking sound.

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