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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: marod70 on December 14, 2009, 12:06:28 PM
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I taped a show last week; mics to UA-5 and Microtrack I, 24-bit, 48 kHz. The UA-5 and MT powered through a VR box. The show ended and I hit the record button to save but right after I hit record, the mini USB cord came out of the MT and the MT turned off. When I tried to power on the MT, it came on but the screen said "reading media," and stayed like that for quite some time, so I just turned off the MT. I was able to transfer the file directly from the MT to my computer; however, there are no attributes assigned to the file.
When looking at the file properties, under general it comes up as a wave sound, 1.34 GB, but there is nothing under summary.
The file will not come up on Sound Forge, which says the file type is unknown.
Am I looking for a file recovery program or something else to try and fix this? I am, obviously, not knowledgeable about these things. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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it sounds like all the data is there, but the file header info was never written.
try this WAV header repair utility:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=72936.0 (http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=72936.0)
altenatively, some audio editors will allow you to open "raw pcm" files. I'm not sure about Sound Forge, though.
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That did the trick! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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I borrowed a MT II recently to check out, and recorded using the line inputs from my usual mics and preamp. I suffered internal battery death since it was evidently not fully charged, so I switched to a USB battery when I noticed. After that, I got nothing except a file that was 0 KB. Do you think I just hit the record button twice at once and it stopped after it wrote the header? Or the other thing is that I may have turned off the power before stopping recording or closing the file. Does that make it disappear completely?