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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #75 on: October 05, 2005, 04:59:22 PM »
i think cell phone noise would be rather rare.

Place your cell phone near your MicroTrack and call it. You will hear some very clear cell phone interference on your recording. At least I do...

and then try from across the room please ??? if you can also hear noise from across the room, then this thing is looking worse and worse

but maybe that noise is just the mt when not recording music or anything loud ??? that would mean it has a poor preamp/a>d path

Then do the same thing with your cell phone on top of your speakers. 

Also, check that when it's receiving a digital signal.

yeah, id imagine the noise would only be in the analog section, but who knows
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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #76 on: October 05, 2005, 05:04:55 PM »
i think cell phone noise would be rather rare.

Place your cell phone near your MicroTrack and call it. You will hear some very clear cell phone interference on your recording. At least I do...

and then try from across the room please ??? if you can also hear noise from across the room, then this thing is looking worse and worse

but maybe that noise is just the mt when not recording music or anything loud ??? that would mean it has a poor preamp/a>d path

Then do the same thing with your cell phone on top of your speakers. 

Also, check that when it's receiving a digital signal.

yeah, id imagine the noise would only be in the analog section, but who knows

That's a steak through the heart for me.... I was looking for some opinions on the A/D in this item, but if its subject to cellphones when using analog in, its a no go for me right off the bat. 

I'm very interested in what you guys find with this....


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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #77 on: October 05, 2005, 05:18:02 PM »
Cell phone interference is no reason to dump the MicroTrack. My M1 and SBM1 had it occasionally, and recently I've even seen a show where there was cell phone interference over the PA. So I guess most audio gear is somehow subject to this problem and there's simply nothing we can do about it. I'll do some more thorough tests later.

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #78 on: October 05, 2005, 05:24:30 PM »
So I got my Microtrack yesterday and started charging it at work.  Since I've already read about the 'several charge cycle' thing, I powered it down, and recharged it several times yesterday afternoon.  When I got home that evening, I went through the menus a little bit and before I went to bed started another charge cycle.  This morning when I woke up, the battery indicator was still in the animation state like it was charging...which is weird because at that point it was 8 hours later.  So I come home from work all excited to start making some test recordings and the Microtrack was turned off.  Hmmm...

I power it on and almost immediately get a "battery is low message" and then the thing shuts off.  WTF?  I tried it again and bam, same thing ???

After fiddling with it for a couple minutes, I got it to start charging again and it is still going now.  Anyone have any idea what happened?  Could it have completed charging and then stayed on all day until the battery drained down to empty?  It was connected to the wall wart/USB cable all day.

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #79 on: October 05, 2005, 05:27:06 PM »
OK, just did some testing. The MT seemed to be more more likely to get interference when the cell phone was placed left
or under it. I got very little interference when placing the cell phone on top of the MT and some interference when placing it right of the MT.
All in all, the safe distance from which not to expect audible interference seems to be about one meter to the left and half a meter (50 cm) to the right of the MT (I don't know how much that is in inches for you ignorant non-metric folks *G*).

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #80 on: October 05, 2005, 08:47:07 PM »
im not totally sure what RF noise is...Radio Freq? 
i only found "RF" noise when i had analog stage used.  SPDIF got nothing
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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #81 on: October 05, 2005, 09:02:15 PM »
yep, radio freqiencies
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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #82 on: October 06, 2005, 02:24:25 AM »
talk about "user error"
I just got the MT too  ;D
I went to power it up, let it go for about 30-45 minutes.
then started fiddling with it.
put the disc in, and started trying the recording button.
then deleted the few tracks I tried out.
then it froze on the delete file message.
so then I read that you have to format the disc. I go to menu, and start to format the disc.
about 40 minutes later, its still formatting. The light on the screen stays on and it still says formatting even though I took the disc out an hour or so ago.

now I have it on the wall charger, and it still says formatting.

I think I brokle it already

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Seriously, the band makes the music. Tapers just point mics in the right direction and hit "record".

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #83 on: October 06, 2005, 07:16:27 PM »
bump cause Im wondering now if I let the battery run down, will it unfreeze?
can the battert run down if its frozen?

hard questions. and I don't want to bug cascademedia
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That's good to hear!  The last patcher I had complained about my AKGs, fluffed schoeps for about 15 minutes, stayed patched in, and farted on me all night long.
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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #84 on: October 06, 2005, 07:35:21 PM »
bump cause Im wondering now if I let the battery run down, will it unfreeze?
can the battert run down if its frozen?

hard questions. and I don't want to bug cascademedia

Have you tried pressing and holding the power button for 20 seconds?

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #85 on: October 06, 2005, 09:54:27 PM »
Last night while I was charging the battery with the usb wall plug, the charge indicator started to flicker after about 2 hours of charging.When I started the MT it had a half full battery. I then started to charge it again. Same thing: after about an hour or 2 of charging it freaks out and goes into non-stop flicker mode. Not sure what's going on with that. Kinda ghetto.

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #86 on: October 07, 2005, 12:25:47 PM »
For mine which was frozen in the morning still, I let it power down and it was fixed!
Seriously, the band makes the music. Tapers just point mics in the right direction and hit "record".

That's good to hear!  The last patcher I had complained about my AKGs, fluffed schoeps for about 15 minutes, stayed patched in, and farted on me all night long.
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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #87 on: October 07, 2005, 12:29:42 PM »
Last night while I was charging the battery with the usb wall plug, the charge indicator started to flicker after about 2 hours of charging.When I started the MT it had a half full battery. I then started to charge it again. Same thing: after about an hour or 2 of charging it freaks out and goes into non-stop flicker mode. Not sure what's going on with that. Kinda ghetto.

The same thing happened to me.  It was like it was in an endless loop.  I'm not sure if it was still charging or actually draining the battery at that point.  I had some other issues charging the thing too (see my post about that about 8 posts prior), but ran through my first test recording cycle and got very satisfactory results, so hopefully whatever happened was just an anomaly.  I'll post my record time results in the appropriate thread.

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #88 on: October 07, 2005, 01:56:44 PM »
If you leave the miniusb in when powering up, it goes into charge mode, no biggie, just plug the usb jack in after powering up.
DEL makes it boot in 'normal' mode.

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Re: [PT 2] M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread
« Reply #89 on: October 07, 2005, 10:03:42 PM »
I've seen that battery light flickering too.  I think if you leave it it eventually winds up with the full charge battery icon. Maybe the flicker means it's in the final stages of charging?

 

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