The input level decreases (flat)

[Tomas E]

When setting up the recording levels for the first time in a project I set the guitar channel on my external Mackie mixer to about -2 (fader). This way the level in the audio monitor will be just about right. But after doing some recordings the level in the audio monitor suddenly is much lower. At first I thought I had accidentally touched the trim pot (on the Mackie) for that channel so I did the level set procedure once again. This issue is present on both my computers which leads me to believe that there's something going on with the Audiofire2. I have the latest driver and software installed.

Quitting DP and restarting it doesn't solve it.

Restarting my computer solves it temporarily.

As you may have read here
http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =4&t=55415
I've had another issue with pops and clicks. It has started to appear on my MacBook Pro as well. And when looking through my saved drafts I noticed that the pops and clicks issue started back in the summer of 2012. I can't help thinking these issues are somehow related to each other. The MBP has a SSD which means - as far as I know - that disk maintenance should not be the primary measure.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Are there any plugs in the track that might be attenuating the signal?


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[Tomas E]

Only some standard MOTU effects but they are always enabled. Both when I have a good signal and a bad one.

[mikehalloran]

My only suggestion is to open Console and see if something shows up in the log at the times when this is happening.

Have you contacted Echo on this? It could be a known issue.

[Tomas E]

My only suggestion is to open Console and see if something shows up in the log at the times when this is happening.

Have you contacted Echo on this? It could be a known issue.

Thanks, I'll look into that. Where do I find the log?

No I haven't yet, but I guess it's the only thing left to do.

[mikehalloran]

Console logs all activities on your Mac and time stamps them. It's in the Utilities folder. It can be a very useful diagnostic tool. It can also be line after line of gibberish.

[Tomas E]

Console logs all activities on your Mac and time stamps them. It's in the Utilities folder. It can be a very useful diagnostic tool. It can also be line after line of gibberish.

I missunderstood. I thought you were talking about some log in the Echo AudioFire Console
https://www.google.se/search?client=saf ... sole+image

There's just to much info in there which I don't know how to interpret. So I think I'll try the EchoAudio Support instead.

[Tomas E]

It's been quite a while since this subject came up. The problems (pops and clicks) are still present and finally I contacted the Echo support, here's their reply.

Due to the AudioFire being a discontinued line of products, we haven't done thorough testing on OS X El Capitan, and have no plans to release a new driver for it.

I'm saving for a MOTU 8pre later this summer.

[stubbsonic]

I have that same AudioFire box (which I was only using for remote recording). I had some click & pop issues as well. The Echo support was blaming it on poor Apple firewire support in Mavericks (10.9.5). They suggested that I either move backward or forward in OS to resolve it.

I recently updated to 10.10.5, but haven't had a chance to test the AudioFire2. I suppose I could test it, but since the problem is intermittent, it basically renders the device useless. I'm not willing to risk ANY kind of project to that kind of behavior.

I can understand ECHO not wanting to have to support drivers ad nausium for discontinued products and apple's rapid-fire OS releases. I am even willing to boot in an older OS to work on a location recording. But I'm not sure what my options really are in that regard.

[Tomas E]

Though it's sad to hear you've had the same issue it's good to know I'm not alone. That way I can be sure of that whatever I choose I most likely will get rid of it. Thanks.