Hi all,

I have to transfer a lot of DATS to PTLE via a mbox 1 - THe best way to do this is via spdif.

I have a cable connected to the out of the DAT to the in on my mbox1.

My sound card is on SPDIF / Digital.

The phono (digi) cable is plugged into out of DAT to in of MBOX. I've also tried it in different ways (as one does) in-case I really am loosing the plot.

Now the question:

I have no signal when monitoring in PT. What am I doing wrong? Please help. This should be obvious but for some reason I can't work out what the hell is going on here.

Thanks very much in advance for your time.

MAC 0SX 10.4.8
1.8Dual PPC
5GB RAM
PTLE 7.3.1
DV Tool Kit II

This post has been edited by leegrainge: Fri 27 Jul 2007, 17:52

If your mac has Optical SPDIF builtin, use the internal sound, record into something like Audacity then import the audio into PTLE.

Get the digi hardware out of the equasion.

Thanks ever so much gdoubleyou.

Just to clarify - I will need a Phono (out of my HHB DAT ) to (my MAC) Optical cable?

Thanks in advance!

Lee

This shouldn't be too hard in PTLE. 1st thing to check is that the session you create matches the sample rate of the DAT you're capturing. If you have multiple recordings at different sample rates on the DAT then you'll need a seperate session for each different rate.

Next, go into your IO set-up page and check the ins and outs. From memory, you should have 4 of each, 2 analogue and 2 digital. If these aren't there then you'll need to create new pathways and asign them to the digital ins and outs. Then go to your Hardware set-up and select SPDif as your clock source.

It should then be a simple matter of creating a couple of mono tracks (or one stereo), selecting the digtal connections as your inputs (generally these will be Inputs 3 & 4).

Don't forget to switch back to internal clocking once the process is done.

I may be overegging the pudding, but whenever I do a digital transfer I connect the ins and outs of both devices to create a closed loop (ie DAT out to M-Box in, M-Box out to DAT in). You'll also want to use 75 ohm cable to reduce the chance of digital clicks (the ones that come with Digi gear are fine).

Hi Jim,

I recorded all the DATS. 48K 16BIT in MS.

For future ref. if I am using SPDif, would I set the new pathway to 3 & 4? (silly question?) You mentioned further down about my inputs being 3 & 4 (I guess that's what you meant) In the MBOX logo above of setting I found that if I click (using ctrl) here I get the option of analogue or digital. This is the way I sorted the I/O. In future I shall make a Digital I/O to CH 3 & 4.

Thanks very much for your help!
Lee