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Topic: External vibes (bases) affecting recording device? (Read 1754 times) previous topic - next topic
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External vibes (bases) affecting recording device?

Is it possible to have distortions in your cd recordings (to cd) because you listened to that music at a high volume during recordings? I'm thinking more about deep bases affecting the recording process through vibrations.
So, should one lower the base volume during the copying-to-cd or ripping of a cd to avoid your laptop or Cd recording device casing catching those  vibes?

External vibes (bases) affecting recording device?

Reply #1 –
It depends on amplitude of vibration. It will not catch vibrations in recorded signal, but big vibrations can cause the tracking error, so disk won't be usable. I usually try to keep the recorder as stable as possible during the recording to minimise the chance of tracking errors. Fine tracking servo usually have the range of about 35µm. If the disturbance is larger, then coarse tracking motor gets in action.
Anyway I think that the bases from the loud music can't cause tracking errors.
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External vibes (bases) affecting recording device?

Reply #2 –
This is not likely to happen. The vibrations generated by other factors (hard disk, the optical drive itself) are far stronger than your speakers.

If you're paranoid about this, you can try to disable the "buffer-underrun" protection of your drive while recording. That means that if the drive loses sync with the spiral (due to vibrations or heavy hard disk activity), it won't resume writing but rather report an error (end produce a coaster).

With some drives you can't disable the protection though.

Edit:
During ripping it doesn't matter if the drive gets shaken up a bit, since I assume you're using a non-brain damaged ripper (EAC or dBpoweramp) and AccurateRip.