Unfortunately, on Friday night I accidentally dropped my Edirol R-09. It was a fall on a hard faced floor. Apart from a little scratch on the side, there are no exterior marks and the recorder seems to operate as it did before.
However, I have noticed since then that my recorder is picking up much more unwanted noise in my recordings from recitals and voice lessons (background crinkling, clicks, small sounds like that) that it seemingly did not before – at least not to my memory. The recordings also just sound... different. Like the mix between the two channels isn't as smooth.
Are any of these things I mentioned possible symptoms of damage to my recorder from the fall, or am I just being paranoid? Could these changes just be due to factors like different acoustics?