by Mike Rivers » Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:58 am
You've had all day to play with it. Is it working OK? Someone asked about word clock synchronization, and I'll ask again. The occasional blip on an armed channel of the HDR with no signal coming in could be a sign that the console and recorder word clocks aren't synchronized.
Does your console have an Apogee word clock I/O card? If so, you should connect it to the word clock card on the HDR. I recommend making the HDR the word clock master (set it for Internal word clock) and setting the d8b to be the slave (external word clock). The reason for this is that the output of the HDR's word clock card has no trouble driving the word clock input on the d8b Apogee clock I/O card, but the output level of the d8b's optional sync card is marginal for driving the HDR's word clock input.
You'll need a BNC-BNC cable, preferably 75 ohm, to connect the d8b word clock output to the HDR's word clock input. Set the HDR for external word clock and the d8b for internal word clock. Make sure both are set to the same sample rate.
If your console doesn't have the clock I/O card, you can use the BNC connector on one of your DIO-8 cards as a word clock output, but there were three versions of the DIO-8 card's EPROM, only one of which provides the correct word clock signal. The others sort of work, better than nothing.
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