Topic: Skips in JB3 recording

[hexyjones]

The first set of my Stockholm Syndrome@Richmond has a few spots of what sound like a CD skipping as it moves through a scratch.

...click click click click click...

I was recording through the analog line in. Had an MD patched out of my JB3...

Insights?

Hard drive? Power Supply?

[F.O.Bean]

its been stated that running analog in to the jukebox runs the risk of getting hard drive noises on it, its prolly just the HD spinning

[hexyjones]

Are the optical ins immune to this type of problem? It really sounds more like digital errors than anything bleeding into the analog stream...

[keepongoin]

i had a couple dropouts in an optical-in recording that sound like cd skips.  i was not very happy about it, but at least there were 10 other tapers there.  I don't know if it was my ADC or the JB3.  I am waiting for the DAT or CD from the guy that was patched out or my SPDIF output to see if he had similar problems.  If not, it could be because I ran the JB3 for 12+ hours straight that day.

[bhtoque]

You need to defrag the drive once in a while or you can get skips/pops.

Creative's site has the instructions how to get into service mode to do it.

There are several things that can causes problems, but if you've checked everything else defrag it.

JAson

[keepongoin]

i had reformatted my drive the night prior.  I think my issue was rooted in the fact that I had been running it for so long in the hot oregon sun. 

[Kindguy]

I was doing some testing at the house. When my cell phone rings the TV, radio ect will make clicking/digital noise.

I put my phone next to the JB3 & called it. Sure enough I got clicks in the recording.

Just FYI you never know that may have been the problem.

[hexyjones]

Ahhh...like maybe the barstaff had some of those little two way radios...or hell - cell phones?