Two Questions?

[Wolfram]

Two Questions;


1) I currently have a ProTools MBox 2 setup. From the MBox 2 I run in to a Soundcraft Spirit E6 mixer L & R. I use a Shure SM57, Shure SM58 and a Behringer C1 in to the board. My computer is a P4 3.01GHz, 1 GB RAM dual screen machine.

I get an annoying hiss when I pay stuff back. When I record directly from the MBox 2 with the mics plugged directly in to the rear I get no hiss. I figure it is is the soundboard. Is this normal and is there away to get around the hiss?

2) As per my setup above I can only play for about 2 minutes before I get playback/recording errors and the recording stops. As you can imagine, this is very annoying. Is this just the MBox 2 and the limitation is from the USB 2.0 cabling? If I was to by a DIGI 002 and have firewire would this remedy the problem?

These two issues are killing my creative flow. Please help.

Wolfram

[jb4674]

If the Mbox has a toslink out, then try to get a nice sound card that will allow you to use the toslink in and it may solve your problem. If you mobo has firewire built-in, then using that connection may fix the problem but it may not. Adding a firewire card is not going to do you much good because you're still sending the info through the pci bus and you're limited to its transfer rate. I could be wrong but that's my best guess.

I hope that helps.

Jimmy

[Wolfram]

Jimmy,

Thank you for your help. So in short I need a better sound card?

Wolfram

[Rip]

Originally Posted by Wolfram

Two Questions;

1) I currently have a ProTools MBox 2 setup. From the MBox 2 I run in to a Soundcraft Spirit E6 mixer L & R. I use a Shure SM57, Shure SM58 and a Behringer C1 in to the board. My computer is a P4 3.01GHz, 1 GB RAM dual screen machine.

I get an annoying hiss when I pay stuff back. When I record directly from the MBox 2 with the mics plugged directly in to the rear I get no hiss. I figure it is is the soundboard. Is this normal and is there away to get around the hiss?

2) As per my setup above I can only play for about 2 minutes before I get playback/recording errors and the recording stops. As you can imagine, this is very annoying. Is this just the MBox 2 and the limitation is from the USB 2.0 cabling? If I was to by a DIGI 002 and have firewire would this remedy the problem?

These two issues are killing my creative flow. Please help.

Wolfram

not 100% sure if you are saying this or not but are you saying
recording into the computer using the mbox..
when you bybass the mixer its not as hissy?

If thats the case, its 2 things..your gain structure..and most likely that
the actual mixer you're using isnt exactly that great, but still should probably
get acceptable results.

make sure the 3 seperate stages of gain are setup properly.
EX: if your first stage of gain "trim" is set way too low..and then you
compensate by bringing up the channel fader too far...
but then on the main fader the output is too low..and then you make up the gain in the mbox.

if im missing what you are saying..try saying it a different way.