cdespinosa

I'm using Golden 1.22 on an iMac G4 (800MHz) woith 384Mb memory. Yes, it's an old slow small machine, but it's one I can dedicate to doing capture from LPs. I had been using Final Vinyl to do audio capture, but found it to be too simple and feature-poor. My first experiment with the trial version of Golden seemed to work well, but now that I've paid for it, I can't get it to make a recording that doesn't have audio dropouts every few seconds. The sound quality is extremely choppy; it reminds me of using a MacRecorder on a Mac II circa 1987. I expected a product that is labeled "Pro" and priced as it is would at least be able to make a recording without dropouts. Is this characteristic of Golden on Mac, or is it just too slow on a PowerPC G4 800MHz to do the job? (When I can get a time slice on my quad Intel box with 3GB RAM I'll give it a try there, but that machine spends most of its time doing compiles). The recordings I make with Final Vinyl on the same machine are just fine, no dropouts. I've filed a tech support incident with NCH as well, but I'm interested in hearing the experiences of other users, especially if changing the audio settings or hardware configuration (I'm recording to external 400Mb FireWire HD) might help.