So I bought my UA-5 stock from someone on this board, and then proceeded to have someone else from this board perform the digi mod on it. At the completion of the digimod process, I was told that my rear RCA inputs seemed to be blown, and that they must have been that way when I got the unit, because the digimod isn't anywhere near the RCA output circuitry.
Last night, I was using my UA-5 connected to my soundcard via SPDIF and in the middle of recording something, the signal became very distorted (think like a big muff fuzz pedal). I checked to see if it was just the digital signal going out, but the headphone output sounded exactly the same as the spdif signal. (In retrospect, this makes sense, since the headphone jack comes after the a/d and d/a.) Therefore, I'm concluding that the problem must be in the A/D section of the unit, but this still doesn't explain two things. 1) Why were my RCA jacks shot when I got this unit? Anyone heard of that before? 2) If the solder on my digimod is loose or something, why would it just randomly start to have troubles? I've taken this thing to lots of shows since I had the mod done, and never had a problem. I use it for the first time just sitting on my desk to record some music, and it seems to be dying.
Any advice? Please?
EDIT: Oh, and to clarify, this is an intermittent problem, which makes me lean farther toward the possibility that it's just a loose connection or something, but how can I track down where the problem is?
EDIT (again): It's starting to seem more and more like this is a problem relating to the digimod. Occasionally when I tap the wire, I can hear that through the speakers. Right now, it's just having intermittent bursts of noise even when I'm not touching it. It's silent, and working fine, but any second there'll be a horrible burst of static.