Topic: jb3 optical line in issuses

[johnfears]

i have been using the jb3 since early summer without any issues.  however, all good things must come to an end.

i have been using the optical line in mode to record, with much success, but last night when i hit record, the timer was extreeemly slow.  it would tick one second for every 30 real-time seconds.  i experimented with the other recording modes and they do not have the same issue.

i powered down and tried it....didn't work
i reset the machine....didn't work
i reinstalled the latest firmware....didn't work

i have searched several faq pages, but i can't find any hints on how to fix this problem.  does anyone know what the problem is?

any help would be much appreciated.

john

[caymanreview]

what was feeding your jb3 the optical signal?

[John R]

optical kinked?

[caymanreview]

sounds really wierd that it would click one sec for every realtime sec

i experienced probs going ua5 > jb3 when it was accidently on 96khz when the ua5 was turned on... but that makes it click 2 secs for each real time sec and sound reeeaaalllyy slow on playback

[hexyjones]

Ok - redo - (I need to read  more carefully.)

Yeah - break in the cable? hmmmp -

Does the socket feel solid when its plugged in...? Sometimes it doesn't take much stress to break those sockets off the circiut board...

[johnfears]

the cables (i tried 2) were fine, so was the connection.  everything was solid.

i was plugged into the board, and a friend tried his md in the same plug with no problems.

would not having a good sound source effect the recording time?

also, this only happened with optical.  it was fine with regular line in.

[johnfears]

i just had a thought.
could it be that the board was sending out analog?  it didn't think to use the a/d.  duh?!?!

[hexyjones]

Uhhh yeper...you have to set it for analog line in - not optical...

The optical and analog input are the same jack...unless you have some red laser light coming out of the end of your cable....select the analog input....

[John R]

low power on the batts running the invertor?>weak optical signal