Confirmed to be a bad chip in the V3. Kudos to Doug Oade, I overnighted it to him and he has fixed it for me in a day and is going to send it out tomorrow. Can't ask for much more than that. Unfortunately, I've had the unit for awhile but really haven't taken the time to listen hard to anything that I'd recorded. Everything looked fine in CD Wave so I figured that all was well. Anyways, that's the precice reason that I didn't sell my V2 off, it will come in handy at Ween tomorrow night...