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Firstly, a short note about this recording. This was recorded on the same day as I installed iLife 08 and with that the new Garageband, we also had plans to use Aggregate audio to record some ambient mics with an iMic, this didn’t quite work so we gave up on that and just recorded as usual. Unfortunately not all went to plan and it wasn’t entirely apparent until after the recording.

I have been using the left USB slot on my MacBook Pro for every recording so far, but for some reason it has now decided to have some sort of audio corruption when going form the mixing desk to the left USB. You hit record in Garageband and all looks fine until you stop the recording and play back. The recording mysteriously becomes half it’s length and also speeds up. Randomly clicking the “Follow Tempo & Pitch” box eventually sorts this but there’s a noticeable hiss in the recording (as can be heard in these). Switching to the right USB seems to fix both of these, however M-Audio apparently don’t recommend using the right USB on a MacBook Pro. The his is also noticeable when recording directly into Quicktime so I don’t think it’s a Garageband thing.

Even more confusingly, to try to isolate what exactly is happening I plugged the iMic into both USB connections. In the right USB you get an even louder hiss and in the left USB it’s fine.

The long and the short is that I’m now running the desk into the right-hand USB but if anyone has any explanations or suggestions I’d be grateful and whilst I am tempted to blame Garageband 08 it just seems too unlikely.

Anyway, here’s the recordings and sorry about the quality.