General questions.

[diggyfam]

Brand new and I actually have my pixel tree running. But notice little lag. So Cat 5e shield vs un shield looking for best to use and can you use cat 6 ? Also I saw on one of these xlight videos I believe it was Keith talking about running your mp3 through Audasity and doing something to make it better . Does anyone know what that may have been thanks

[keithsw1111]

You are not clear about how you are playing your show so it is hard to advise.

There are lots of reasons lag can occur and 90% of them are fixable but there is no point providing advice without details.

Lag typically occurs in your show player or the network. The controllers are rarely the issue. Wiring problems dont generally cause lag unless connectivity is lost/unreliable and it is one of the less frequent causes.

[diggyfam]

What I'm asking is should I be using shielded cat5e cable or is standard cat5 good enough. My lag has cleared up because I've changed from connecting LOR system to comm 4 instead of using the DMX spot on my F4v3 card. My other question was I saw a video about making sequences and the advice was to run your mp3 through audioasity and do something  to help with the way things run I just dont remember what that advice was.  Thanks for help.

[aknflyer]

The audacity fix was probably to use the normalize feature to make too low level or too high level audio to a more normal range audio. I have run it on all my songs, so that noone has to change the volume control on their radio between songs.

[diggyfam]

Ok that was probably what was said. Thanks