Input failure, How to sample

Yorkeire · Post by **Yorkeire** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:22 am

I would like some advice on how to sample drums? Thats the easy part.

My main problem is that I want to sample a certain drum and percussion sound from my record collection, but I have just found out that one of my inputs on my soundcard has gone bust(i.e. When recording to Soundforge, the left input is very low compared to the right)

I am using a Pulsar soundcard so I cannot afford to replace it, I also do not want to send it away at the moment as:

A. I can do without inputs at the moment(apart from the drum samples)

B. I will losethe use of my studio for god knows how long waiting on the card to be repaired.

My questions are:

A. How can I get rid of the low static noise on left channel when recording into Soundforge? i.e cancel the left channel leaving a mono channel.

B. Will this affect the quality of the drum samples as they were in Stereo to start with?

Cheers for any advice offered

Plato · Post by **Plato** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:37 pm

Are you sure it's your soundcard & not your record deck ?
You should be able to record as normal into sound forge and save just the working side as a mono file.....
or route the working side to your sequencer and record there....
or record into an STS sampler.....
there are many ways to skin a cat !

Yorkeire · Post by **Yorkeire** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:03 pm

Yeah, it is the soundcard input. I changed mixers, leads, decks, to no avail.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:20 pm

it's probably not the card, but the infamous cable whip

cheers, Tom

Yorkeire · Post by **Yorkeire** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:02 pm

Do they cause a lot of problems to users?

Stige · Post by **Stige** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:19 pm

On 2004-06-23 15:02, Yorkeire wrote:
Do they cause a lot of problems to users?

they seem to a bit fragile to me. Perhaps you could do a test recording, first removing the whole cable whip from your pulsar, so absolutely nothing is connected into AD converters. If the problem goes away, there is the culprit. At least that should be noticed with the static noise.

Also you could test record and move the cable whip during recording. Does this cause any interference?

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:34 pm

if that cable is 'hanging' from the back of the card it puts a lot of stress of the connector - increasing with the number of cables plugged in.
It can even break connections in the soldering of the circuit board.
I could check which pins contain the analog ins.

cheers, Tom