Mac P2 help

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Yes connected firmly. If you do a google search the problem you are having is similar to complaints by others that used non shielded cheap no ferrite core cables. . Data integrity is important especially for the p2 workflow. why take the chance with cheaper cables. I'm not saying its the cause of your problems but it could be. granite digital has great cables with triple shielding ferrite core gold plated connectors designed for data integrity. They are also really flexible so as not to put a strain on the cable and port like stiffer firewire cables I've seen.
 
mico said:
The gold helps prevent corrosion and has better conductivity helping prevent data loss. No voodoo there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_plating
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Honestly, how many home stereo connections have you seen corrode? I've never seen it, it's not an industry problem. And if it's a camera connection you're plugging and unplugging a lot, corrosion won't be an issue at all.

"Technically" gold does fend off corrosion better. "Realistically" its solves a problem that doesn't really exist.
 
Maybe you should post your gold issue on some major computer maufacurers and ask them why they use gold in their circuits boards. better conductivity is something you should pay attention to I guess.

get off your horse and Give it a rest.
 
Now, now, calm down. I'm a retired IT Engineer, I know what's on computer circut boards, there's hardly any gold at all on any. It's not, in fact, more conductive. I'm just helping to clear up the facts. No one is on a horse here.
 
BenB said:
Now, now, calm down. I'm a retired IT Engineer, I know what's on computer circut boards, there's hardly any gold at all on any. It's not, in fact, more conductive. I'm just helping to clear up the facts. No one is on a horse here.
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My apologies if it was abrupt. I never said that particular attribute was super important, just saying that a good cable in a workflow where there is no tape to reimport footage paying a couple of more dollars for a better cable , that is the major pipeline to import footage, isn't that big a deal to cut down any variables that might corrupt transfer. And if it comes with gold plated cables why not?

Heres more info about computer gold if you care.

http://www.nma.org/about_us/publications/pub_gold_uses.asp
 
To clean contacts and connectors, I use something called DeOxyIt. Works great. Made by Caig. There's also PreservIt that helps keep them clean.

My cell phone had a knack of turning off spontaneously. I was going to send it in for service but decided to use a little DeOxyIt cleaner on the battery contacts. Problem solved. And the battery contacts are gold plated.

BenB's right. Gold contacts aren't the perfect answer. You can get excellent performance from standard plated connectors but they have to be kept clean. Some of the best recording studios in the country aren't using gold plated connectors. For example I've been to Oceanway and Ground Control, and most of the connectors there weren't gold plated. But they were very well maintained.

And I've seen gold plated connectors that were badly neglected and starting to show signs of corrosion.
 
BenB said:
Honestly, how many home stereo connections have you seen corrode? I've never seen it, it's not an industry problem. And if it's a camera connection you're plugging and unplugging a lot, corrosion won't be an issue at all.
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Sorry, but that's just not true.

first, after fifteen years in studio audio production, I've seen and heard plenty of corrosion problems. I've even found Neutrik XLR connections turned blueish grey with corrosion, in studio environments. I've seen it more in live venue applications where disconnect and re-connect happens thousands of times a day. A rental house I mixed for used gallons of De-oxit every year.

As far as being an industry "problem." A guy two floors down from our produciton studio designs and builds tube stereo pre-amps. He uses gold components and connectors across the board.

Sorry, but anyone who works with metal and electric signal knows that corrosion is always a potential problem.
 
gossamer said:
I've even found Neutrik XLR connections turned blueish grey with corrosion, in studio environments.
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Yeah, maybe in New Orleans after saltwater has run through the studio ...

In general, if your studio is well air-conditioned you won't have such problems.
 
mactrix said:
Yeah, maybe in New Orleans after saltwater has run through the studio ...

In general, if your studio is well air-conditioned you won't have such problems.
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I'm sorry but you just don't know what you're talking about. Temperature, the presence of moisture is only one possible cause of corrosion. Corrosion is an electrochemical process and it can occur any time a metal reacts with its environment. Elecrochemical corrosion can be accelerated simply by the presense of oxygen or altering the voltage across a circuit or connection.

I'm not trying to sell gold connectors, because I honestly don't give a **** what connectors you use. And, I'm not hyping a bunch of high-dollar cables because, again, I couldn't give a **** what kind of cables you use. And I respectfully suggest you drop the simplistic dogma without understanding the subject - you just sound like a blowhard.
 
Yes, gossamer, according to your own logic, you do in fact sound like...

Now y'all play nice. Don't start attacking each other, especially if you are not, nor have ever been a professional engineer.

Please drop the cursing and attackes, it does nothing for anyone.
 
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