Having issues with tracks that begin with the drop.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:39 pm
I've been having a problem playing tracks that have the first beat I want to play as the very first sound in the track. It seems to skip and stutter on the first beat. Songs with an intro are fine.
What I'm thinking is this:
The timecode starts at 0:00. Before that, there is no code on the vinyl, so when I'm trying to cue up, say, a kick drum at 0:00, it doesn't have any code before that time, to allow me to rub the vinyl over that kick. It goes from nothing to 0:00, and I need a couple seconds of silence before the kick to cue it up. When I try to drop it in, Ms. Pinky takes a half-second or so to catch up, and stutters to a start. This obviously throws the track off-beat and makes mixing difficult.
Here's my setup:
Vestax PMC-06 PRO
2x Vestax PDX2300
Maya 44USB (working great, despite others problems)
2x Generic phono preamps
Win XP Laptop, running 2 instances of Pinky Pluggo in a vst host.
I was able to make it work without phono preamps at first, so I didn't buy any. After I noticed this problem, I assumed that it was signal level issue, so I bought two, and it didn't seem to have any affect.
Please let me know if anyone is experiencing similar problems, or if there is already a thread on this topic. Any help is greatly appreciated.
What I'm thinking is this:
The timecode starts at 0:00. Before that, there is no code on the vinyl, so when I'm trying to cue up, say, a kick drum at 0:00, it doesn't have any code before that time, to allow me to rub the vinyl over that kick. It goes from nothing to 0:00, and I need a couple seconds of silence before the kick to cue it up. When I try to drop it in, Ms. Pinky takes a half-second or so to catch up, and stutters to a start. This obviously throws the track off-beat and makes mixing difficult.
Here's my setup:
Vestax PMC-06 PRO
2x Vestax PDX2300
Maya 44USB (working great, despite others problems)
2x Generic phono preamps
Win XP Laptop, running 2 instances of Pinky Pluggo in a vst host.
I was able to make it work without phono preamps at first, so I didn't buy any. After I noticed this problem, I assumed that it was signal level issue, so I bought two, and it didn't seem to have any affect.
Please let me know if anyone is experiencing similar problems, or if there is already a thread on this topic. Any help is greatly appreciated.