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Ever since I got my Edirol FA66 http://www.turnkey.co.uk/mediaLibrary/i ... /11877.jpg I have sometimes had a problem with it. Listen to this sample and you might understand: http://guitarmy.se/rundgang.wav

What do you think might be casuing this feedback problem? Heard something about that ferritlocks on the firewire cable might help?

OSX 10.5.4
Live 7 Suite

If your guess is correct, and Firewire IS actually the Dark Prince reincarnated, I'm afraid there's not much you can do.

I've used the FA-66 with no probs, I'd say if Firewire was the cause it'd be more likely failing at the PC, do you know what Firewire chipset it uses?

edit - just noticed you have the Macbook, that should have the Agere chipset which is good. Maybe try swapping your FA-66 for another of the same unit to try out?

yanquiuxo wrote: What do you think might be casuing this feedback problem? Heard something about that ferritlocks on the firewire cable might help?

OSX 10.5.4
Live 7 Suite

wtf? ferritlocks in the cable... what is that some sort of small animal that scavenges on bytes of data?

if you're feeling paranoid change the cable, but i would suggest it's more likely that it's a driver / os setup, or u have got a mic / line in which is feeding back...

justin wrote:

yanquiuxo wrote: What do you think might be casuing this feedback problem? Heard something about that ferritlocks on the firewire cable might help?

OSX 10.5.4
Live 7 Suite

wtf? ferritlocks in the cable... what is that some sort of small animal that scavenges on bytes of data?

if you're feeling paranoid change the cable, but i would suggest it's more likely that it's a driver / os setup, or u have got a mic / line in which is feeding back...

I did buy a new cable a week ago because is lost the other one, still the same thing.

Tried to mute all the mic/ins to my computer as well. Does anyone know a good program for monitoring ins/outs for osx btw?

I found this manual on Edirols own homepage: http://www.guitarmy.se/FA-66_leaf_je2.pdf
"If you use a 6-pin ↔ 6-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394) cable to connect the FA-66 to
your computer, you must attach the included ferrite core.
This is for the purpose of preventing electromagnetic noise; do not remove it. "

OSX only uses Coreaudio to connect with the firewire soundcard and there are no drivers for either the FA66 or Coreaudio for OSX.

yanquiuxo wrote: Tried to mute all the mic/ins to my computer as well. Does anyone know a good program for monitoring ins/outs for osx btw?

OSX only uses Coreaudio to connect with the firewire soundcard and there are no drivers for either the FA66 or Coreaudio for OSX.

Well, Live is a good place to monitor ins / outs! go to live prefs and enable / disable the required channels. then goto ur set and configure the channels to receive / send out of the channels u just configured in the prefs... test to see if u get feedback!

Coreaudio is the audio driver for osx, to setup inputs / outputs goto applications/utilities and load "audio MIDI setup". You can also set preferences via the System Preferences / Sound. But u dont really need to configure this unless u want to route system sounds out of another outlet, or setup multi-channel playback...

if u rule out all possibilities and it's still feeding back, then u should exchange ur card as it could be faulty.