Help need with Guillemot sound card

[MShine]

Hi all!
I've been trying to record a drum kit with 6 mics connected straight into a Guillemot 8 ins sound card.
I have the mics connected through XLR-jack cables and am running the board on a PIII 850 Mhz with 590 Mb RAM desktop solely for audio aplications.
I have Cool Edit Pro 2.0 and Logic Audio software installed. With Cool Edit it's just impossible to try and record and even with just 4 mics connected to the board it messes the tracks and mixes them up....
With Logic Audio I thought I was on my way but yesterday with the 6 tracks connected and after about a minute or so listening to the playback I discovered the same thing happened... I couldn't tell during recording though...

Has any of you ever experienced this?
Can you help me? Pleaseeee? :)

Thanks everybody!

[MShine]

Oh oh!
I forgot to mention the sound card is a guillemot Maxi Studio ISIS XL...
In case it helps...
(running on win 98 SE)...

[jas]

I've never heard of a Guillemot so if there's someone more knowledgeable, chime in...

You're obviously getting a signal somewhere because you're recording, right?

Can you record one track properly? Two? Three?

If your problem is that the more tracks you have coming in at once, the more the computer is liable to choke, then I think that indicates your CPU is just too slow for more than x tracks.

If it's recording several tracks properly but throwing the tracks in unpredictable places, check each track's input setting in your software (Cool Edit or Logic Audio). For example, if you expect the bass drum's mike to be on track 3, make sure it's set that way in the software.

I use Sonar and have always used Cakewalk's products (which Sonar is), through Windows 98 and XP and the software has always worked fine. I've never used Cool Edit for recording - only for editing. I had Logic Audio 3 and couldn't stand it - it confused me and I'm not that easily confused by software.

Hope this helps and, if condescending, I'm sorry...it was unclear from your post exactly what the problem was. Let me know more and I'll spew more B.S. :D

-John

[MShine]

Hi jas!
Thank you very much for the tips but I just got mad at the thing and decided to format the HD and install everything again plus with some new drivers I downloaded from the web...
I'm keeping my fingers crossed though...

Thanks again.

Miguel

[FrankiePRS]

I just noticed this thread... I use the same setup for home recording -- the ISIS, the Guillemot, and Cool Edit 2...

Did you resolve the problem?

[MShine]

Hi!
Yeah, I switched computer.
Now I'm running the setup in a PIV 2,8Ghz with 512DDR Ram and a 7200RPM HDD.

It's been a blast so far, but I'm just wondering how am I gonna do the mixing 'cause I'm not very good at it and this stuff was intended to be presented to some record label A&Rs for appreciation...

Any volunteers? :D

Plus, does anybody here has any contacts or is from Brazil? Preferably São Paulo?

I'm going there in a few weeks and was kinda hoping I could do some gigs or showcases and maybe even meet with the local music industry....

All help is welcome!

Thanks

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[FrankiePRS]

Am i correct in assuming that you're still using the WIN98 OS, or did you find some way to cirumvent that limitation?

[MShine]

Yeah!

I'm running Win98SE, but I got it to run with WinXP.
A friend of mine got me a driver for it out of some website (maybe guillemot website I dunno).
It worked, but then it freaked out when I recorded the 7 drum tracks simultaniously...

If you don't need to record 7 tracks at once I guess you'll do fine with WinXP.

Just surf the web in search of the driver.

Good luck!