On 03.04.2007, at 02:49, Stuart Holmes wrote: > it was suggested to me that I might test whether or not 18 > tracks will be too much by arming all 18 tracks than just recording > silence for 15 minutes or > so and see if the system chokes. My question: Is that really a fair > test or is it less taxing in > the system to write silence to the drive? The computer doesn't care whether there's signal or not. It's all ones and zeroes anyway, so yes, that test will tell you! Cheers Hans