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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: jkbyram on October 13, 2005, 08:29:37 AM
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has anyone else had their JB3 start introducing pops into the recording?. mine started to do that last weekend and i checked every cable and plug and they were all fine. i cleaned up the hard drive and reformatted the drive an since then i have recorded my tv in my room just to be able to listen for more noise. i did not get any. did this help anyone elses and should i do that more often?
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has anyone else had their JB3 start introducing pops into the recording?. mine started to do that last weekend and i checked every cable and plug and they were all fine. i cleaned up the hard drive and reformatted the drive an since then i have recorded my tv in my room just to be able to listen for more noise. i did not get any. did this help anyone elses and should i do that more often?
That was what I was going to suggest you do. Mine was freezing up, and after a reformat, its been OK. I've had other people tell me that they have to reformat like once a week to keep it from making sounds like you are describing. I think its an issue with age...
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Is it age or a fragmented hard drive? I had recently deleted about 15 gigs off it before I recorded.
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Is it age or a fragmented hard drive? I had recently deleted about 15 gigs off it before I recorded.
It was because your HD was fragmented, not age
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Is it age or a fragmented hard drive? I had recently deleted about 15 gigs off it before I recorded.
It was because your HD was fragmented, not age
Yeah, age wasn't the right word.... but, what happened with mine, is that it went for a long time before I started having any problems... now, I have to reformat regularly. I attribute that to age, but that's just me.
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id still try a known good/new optical cable as well. just in case.
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I taped the TV without pops so I guess I have a good cable. I am taping for beers tonight so I will know then.
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get everything off of the drive, and then do a disc cleanup and a reformat. you'll have to go in and reset all of your original settings, but the pops and clicks won't be there on your next recording.
i do this before every show (or when its convenient) and don't have the problem anymore. however, if i let it go for awhile without one, the pops and clicks come back.
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get everything off of the drive, and then do a disc cleanup and a reformat. you'll have to go in and reset all of your original settings, but the pops and clicks won't be there on your next recording.
this is what i did before taping judge judy and judge joe brown from my tv. no pops during judy!!
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hahahaha +t
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this is what i did before taping judge judy and judge joe brown from my tv. no pops during judy!!
plus tee for having to go back and listen to that crap afterwards.
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+t for this thread in general. haven't had this trouble but it's a good heads up as i get my gear together for vegoose.
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has anyone else had their JB3 start introducing pops into the recording?. mine started to do that last weekend and i checked every cable and plug and they were all fine. i cleaned up the hard drive and reformatted the drive an since then i have recorded my tv in my room just to be able to listen for more noise. i did not get any. did this help anyone elses and should i do that more often?
I think its the optical-In on the JB3 may have sh&t the bed. I've already blown 3 of them so far. All fixable by Creative.
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I think its the optical-In on the JB3 may have sh&t the bed. I've already blown 3 of them so far.
What the heck are you doing to your JB3s, Dan? :-X
FWIW, and this is for everyone, not just Dan - I recommend travelling with the optical cable NOT attached to the JB3. Leaving it in, even the right-angle cables, will stress the connector and contribute to optical component failure. Just like with portable DAT recorders, don't wanna travel with coax or 7-pin cables stuck in those, either.
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I think its the optical-In on the JB3 may have sh&t the bed. I've already blown 3 of them so far.
What the heck are you doing to your JB3s, Dan? :-X
FWIW, and this is for everyone, not just Dan - I recommend travelling with the optical cable NOT attached to the JB3. Leaving it in, even the right-angle cables, will stress the connector and contribute to optical component failure. Just like with portable DAT recorders, don't wanna travel with coax or 7-pin cables stuck in those, either.
Brian, I never leave the toslink attached. Ever. I was at a show a week ago, inserted the cable gently , as I usually do, and felt abnormal resistance. Bang! I got clicking in my recording. I've had no issues until September of this year. All 3 times, it had to do with the Kimber cable. I'm gonna swap out Toslinks and use my old 3 foot w/ fixed right angles. See what results I get. Could be the RA on the Kimber cable is shot.
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I just did some tests. Its the RA connector that goes into the AD20 this time. I amend my post. I blew 2 optical-ins on the JB3
I did notice what a nice warm sound I get out of the Kimber toslink when I compare it to the SP clone. I wonder why.
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get everything off of the drive, and then do a disc cleanup and a reformat. you'll have to go in and reset all of your original settings, but the pops and clicks won't be there on your next recording.
i do this before every show (or when its convenient) and don't have the problem anymore. however, if i let it go for awhile without one, the pops and clicks come back.
Stupid question, but does the reformat mean updating the firmware again? I get a click in one channel at the start of every recording and I've just been editing it out. I'm not sure if it happens anywhere else. I just delete after 8 or 10 shows.
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you don't have to update the firmware when you reformat or do a disc cleanup.
as for the click, is it within the first second and just barely there? i get that too with the disc cleanup/reformat. i've hard of other people having it too. i don't know if anyone else figured out how to fix it or what, but i usually just edit it out in post.
for me the format/cleanup helps keep the little blips and digi noise type clicks and junk out of the recording. however, i don't think everyone has the click/blip/diginoise problem, just some. which is kind of weird.
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you don't have to update the firmware when you reformat or do a disc cleanup.
as for the click, is it within the first second and just barely there? i get that too with the disc cleanup/reformat. i've hard of other people having it too. i don't know if anyone else figured out how to fix it or what, but i usually just edit it out in post.
for me the format/cleanup helps keep the little blips and digi noise type clicks and junk out of the recording. however, i don't think everyone has the click/blip/diginoise problem, just some. which is kind of weird.
yep, in the first second, one channel and barely there. I edit it out in post. I'm not sure how long it's been going though.