Topic: DA-P1 functioning weirdly

[tdk]

Hi everyone,


Run the following setup.
neumann km140->
sonosax->
mod sbm1->
dap1  (or d8).

Taped an opening band last night and everything was going fine.
(have been having some problems with one channel on sbm1, so I didn't run that).

moved to a different location for the main band (big head todd)
things were not right,
managed to hook/rehook my stuff up 7-8 times.

what I figured out was that when the dap1 (which worked fine for the opening band).
went from record pause to record it lost the signal.

what  I ended up doing was using the dap1 as a mic pre/phantom power, in record pause.
and passed a digital sgnal to my d8 which recorded fine? I had pulled the sonosax out of the loop
in my troubleshooting process....

basically what I ended up with was

km140->
a pair of 10db attenuators in line->
dap1 -> (providing mic pre, phantom, and a/d
d8 (recording.)

anyone have any idea what would cause this?
(my initial guess is that it was a power issue?)

the 6v lead acid battery is fairly old (4-5 years).
I will do a voltage check on the battery tonight.


any thoughts?

I could send it in to get checked out...... but if it is something else.
i'd love the input.

thanks in advance

tim

[Uncle Jimmy]

did you lose the signal for sure, or just the meters? i.e. did you check with headphones? I briefly used a DA-P1 and could lose tracking, but the meters would bump and the show still got recorded. wondered if it might be similar.

good luck,
UJ