[PlanetCCRMA] ardour crackle on writes to firewire drive

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:49:37 -0400, John Yates wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Trying to get a stable Ardour setup on an HP ZD7001US notebook. All
> is well when recording to the internal drive, however when recording
> to an external firewire drive I'm getting a crackle in the audio
> when the drive performs the writes. It looks like a short burst of
> moderately low level single sample 'ticks' when zooming in on the
> recorded track. Anyone have any suggestions?

It might be electrical, eg. ground loop or power supply interferance. Are
you using a soundcard with analogue i/o, or an electrically connected
digital one?

Not the most likly the cause, but just rasing the possibility. I've had a
lot of problems with ground loops on laptops.

- Steve