David Morgan \(MAMS\) wrote:

The DMX-r100 had to be completely reconfigured from a rec/mix session
some two months earlier. The Finalizer could not be removed from the
chain by order of the owner, and the Masterlink had no GUI peripherals.
The Finalizer was supposedly set up only for limiting to avoid clipping of
the Masterlink and nothing else... I took his word for that and tried to stay
out of soft limiting while mixing.

Odds are much of your problem has to do with the Finalizer. It will change
the sound even when bypassed, I am sorry to report.

Please note that monitoring through the desk during mixdown and during
playback from the Masterlink, did *NOT* reveal the severe degradation of
the audio that was actually taking place.

Were you using the analogue output of the Masterlink for monitoring, and
did you have any of the DSP functions of the Masterlink engaged accidentally?
That would be my number two suspicion, behind the Finalizer. If you have
something engaged on the digital output and not the analogue output, you
may not have been hearing the degradation even though it was going to tape.

I cannot explain the resulting loss of frequency content. I took my own
monitors and phones and three of us were involved in the mix. None of
the resulting symptoms became noticeable until we had left the building
with the final mixes. The degradation was not discernable, even on play-
back while on this equipment.

It's not a clock issue. There is some processing going on.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."