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Mike Rivers Mike Rivers is offline
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Default Q: Clock source - Mixer or Mac

Laurence Payne wrote:

This isn't an answer to your question, but it might be interesting
that the June Sound on Sound has an article on Master Clocks. After
reviewing a number of quite high-price units, they come to the
conclusion that an audio studio doesn't need one, and, in fact, if
anything it would degrade performance.


A few years back I wrote a short paper on word clock
synchronization for Transamerica Audio Group, the US
distributor of Drawmer, when they brought out a line of
clock devices. While it's marketing material intended to
present the facts and typical clock situations, I did make
some comments about the popular conception or claim (abused
for marketing other products of that era) that an external
word clock would make a device sound better. I think I gave
a reasonably balanced analysis.

Take a look at it he

http://www.drawmer.com/uploads/File/...clock-sync.pdf


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