Re: [ARSCLIST] creating access cd's

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

Well, I have been a professional in audio for 40 years, and started 
digital on Macs with Protoools in 1995. If you are aware of things like 
using dedicated drives for audio, not recording to your startup drives, 
how to maintain digital audio purity by avoiding destructive 
operations,  and the like you'll be fine. It seems that none of the 
windows audio people ever mention any of this! Initial transfer 
certainly, if you record to the system drive then the drive is 
accessing both software and the audio stream simultaneously, which will 
wear it faster and lead to failure. This is why we use firewire drives 
to record audio on to. Also that digital audio effectivelky does not 
exist unless it is in three copies somewhere, and any drive can fail at 
any time and if there is no backup your data is gone, poof! So at least 
two audio drives online is good.

Just basics such as these... all familiar on this list but some of it 
specific to hard drive recording. I've been learning the proper 
procudures for over ten years, mostly with the help of the amaazing 
helpful people at DAW-MAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Jan 25, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Mark W. Downs wrote:

>  one question for Lou, however,
> refering to this:
>
> "There are many operatng procedures that you need to kep to, such as
> never recording to your system drive but rather to external audio only
> drives.."
>
> what exactly do you mean by this? is this while i am doing the initial 
> transfer
> from the original or something else?
> thanks again,
>
> mark downs
>
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