Hi Whenever I record or bounce tracks thourgh Audiowek 8 I always hear an irritating digital noise from the active harddisk on the recording. Has anyone found a workaround for such a problem? Any advice would be gratly appreciated. I am using Logic Audio Gold v4.7 for PC with Audiowerk 8, DSP-factory and Quantum Atlas SCSI disks. Everything is located on an Asus Motherboard fitted with an Athlon XP 1800 MHz processor. Thanks Peter Hjorth Feddersen, Dk

> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Hjorth Feddersen [mailto:phfed@...] > Whenever I record or bounce tracks thourgh Audiowek 8 I always hear an > irritating digital noise from the active harddisk on the recording. I am assuming this is not acoustic noise from the drive making it onto the recordings but a little 'electric chirp' that coincides with SCSI drive activity, no? If so, I have experienced this (albeit rarely) in some installations. It is probably some kind of ground loop that involves the scsi bus. It is indeed very irritating and hard to deal with. I have solved this problem before, first by removing devices from the scsi chain and seeing if it goes away (I recall it was a K200 once). In the end you may have to put the culprit on a different scsi bus, examine your grounding in your studio, change pci slots for the scsi card etc. Also make sure the drives are installed properly, the power conections are firmly in place, and you may want to electrically isolate the drive from the chassey of the CPU (plastic screws and washers). Heck. if it already is isolated, try it the other way, making sure that all metal screws and contacts are firmly connected in the proper holes. This goes also for the device that is connected which is causing the problem (assuming there is one). This is one of those problems that may require a bit of snake oil and luck to fix. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Also before you tear everything apart, invest in a good quality SCSI cable. It may well be cheap medicine. Check your midi cables too. You can get some funky earthing over bad midi too. Just pull the plugs and see if it gets better. Power conditioning may help too. I am going to stop suggesting because I just realized that you never said you had any other connected scsi devices. Do you? best, Nathan ___ Nathan Rosenberg Music Production www.doghouseNYC.com The Doghouse NYC www.pianoVOX.com