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Yea, he's my alterego. I spend sleepless nights thinking of ways to torment your sensitive ego.

I posted my opinion. You keep fornicating this pissing contest to stroke your ego.

Once again, don't like what I post, don't read it, it's that simple. Record at whatever the {censored} level you want, but please go piss in someone elses ear, I'm sure I'm not the only one sick of your whining.

Like I said, no one is forcing you to read my posts.

Once again the relationship between opinions and assholes is shown by example.

Originally posted by Lee Knight   Yes Where, you can get a lot more humble than that and IMHO opinion you should. The heat of other

The heat of others opinions Lee. This is a public forum, we are free to express our opinions, and to have others express theirs. We are also free to read or not read whatever we choose. If my posts upset you that much I suggest you use the ignore function.

FYI, IMHO stands for in my humble opinion, but I suspect you know that. Can't get much more humble than that.

Getting proper levels, and understanding that they are about is increasing his skill level. It's not very enjoyable fighting to get a decent mix because your tracking levels sucked.

Can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen.

I love what I do, that's why I do it, and I have a wonderful, love filled life. Proper input levels are part of the big picture. If it doesn't sound good, and you have to struggle in mix to get to to sound even OK, it's not very enjoyable now is it?

Can't please all the people all the time. Your advise IMHO was not helping, it was misleading.

Again, if you can't take the heat, then don't post. Forums like this are for sharing info and ideas, and a fantastic place for newcomers to get started in understanding how the recording process works. Crutial to that is getting proper input levels. The process if far more enjoyable when it is understood, done properly, and yields a satisfying end result.

YMMV.

This is about the worst advise regarding quality recording anyone could give. Apart from the obvious mic choice, position tuning, etc., to get good sounds going in, proper levels are the most important factor in digital recording. Stay conservative, understand what your meters are telling you, and pay attention to them.

Ipods and Itunes play many formats besides MP3, .wav, .aiff, AAC, etc.

Yet iTunes can....I find it odd that Apple designs iTunes to be 24 bit compatible but not the iPod.

Well you can't because you cannot play 24 bit files from your ipod, except through itunes. If yu try to play them from the ipod in stand alone 9read not connected to the computer and playing through itunes) the ipod will lock up and require a hard reboot.

All Mac here.

Mackie Tracktion T2, sorry.

FM car dock. However this has nothing to do with the issue, it does it if you are simply listening through headphones also.

I posted this in the Mac forum, but since it's not a frequently visited forum, I thought it might be helpful posted here.

I discovered this one by sheer accident. Exporting unmastered mixes from my DAW (T2) to iTunes for subsequent transfer to the iPod to check in the car. I accidentally exported them as 24 bit/44.1k .wav files rather than 16 bit, however iTunes was most happy to play them, and the iPod most happy to as well, however only through iTunes. When I connected the iPod in the car and attempted to play the files, the iPod locked up and needed to be hard reset. replaced them with 16 bit versions and all was well.

Go figure. What I find strange is that, when connected to my computer, the files can be played from the iPod fine. Apparantly while iTunes is capable of understanding the 24 bit format, the iPod in stand alone mode is not.

Sure if you don't care about the quality of the audio.

And the reson why the poster has a mismatch is because the pre out is +4 while the soundcard in is -10.

It is a very big deal, it is the "deal". With a +4dbu input sensitivity soundcard there is no issue.

Any upgrade is going to be better than a stock computer soundcard that is -10dbV sensitivity. At least you won't be overloading the input to the converters with your preamps +4dbu output level.

Not necessarily. Many pro units that are balanced i/o also have switchable sensitivity, but switching the sensitivity doesn't change the balanced circuit to unbalanced.

Do a search on +4dbu vs -10dbV, and you'll learn quickly this is absolutely false.

Consumer audio card line inputs are typically -10dbV, the output of the Audiobuddy is +4dbu. Consumer sound cards cannot handle +4dbu levels, they will overload and distort.

+4/-10 refers to input sensitivity. Consumer devices, like home stereos, your sound card, etc, have a -10dbV sensitivity, whereas pro gear will either be switchable or be +4dbu. the difference between the two is about 11db, pretty significant. If your preamp, which you're already running pretty hot, has a +4 output, and you plug it into that -10 soundcard, it's going to overload the inputs of the soundcard, redline your software meters, and drive into digital clipping at the converters.

As in cheezy stock computer sound card with 1/8" trs connections?

Sounds to me like you are plugging in a +4 output from your audio buddy into a -10 input on your cheesey sound card.

There's nothing wrong with your Audiobuddy, you're overloading the input to your soundcard.

You can either get a +4/-10 converter like this one from Ebtech, or get a better ADDA interface with +4 i/o, like this one from M-Audio.

OK and then what is the Audiobuddy plugged into?

I'm guessing an AD input that is either set to the wrong sensitivity or is a mic not line level input.

We need more info on your setup.

Unless the light is defective, which is unlikely that it would be and stuck on, something, an aux, a subgroup, is solo'd. It's not just for channel solo, it's for all the solos. Possibly one solo is stuck but you can't tell. Go through and hit every solo button a couple times and make sure they are all (channels, subgroups, aux's, etc.) in the up position.