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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: weedwacker on January 30, 2011, 10:11:09 AM
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Has anyone ever experienced this problem here before? I made a recording with my LS-10 and the recording has dropouts in the audio about every 20 seconds or so. It totally ruined a good recording and dropouts are long enough that to remove them there are still jumps in the audio when listening. Here is the exact setup I used. I used a ritek class 6 16 gig micro SD card with SDHC adaptor, a pair of Nakamichi CM-300 mics with CP-2 capsules stock using neda 1611 9v batteries, The cabling was a Hossa Y cable 2 male XLR to 1 male 1/8 into the mic in connector of the LS-10. I recorded at 24/96 on the SD card with plug in power set to off and manual level settings. This is the first time using these mics in the field so it could be one of many things. I did run a test with them prior recording off the home stereo speakers and it worked fine for a 5 minute recording using all the same but the minute I took it in to the field it didn't perform as tested.
For starters I am going to swap out the the flash card with a different known good card I've used in the past. Second thing is this is the first time I've ever used the mic in jack on this thing. I've always used the line in with a preamp in the past could that be part of the problem and can a pair of battery powered mics be run strictly off the line in without using any sort of pre-amp for concert recording?
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this has never happened to me. maybe there is a problem with your connecting male jacks?
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this has never happened to me. maybe there is a problem with your connecting male jacks?
I just popped the recorder open and and after a half hour of figuring out how to get to the connectors found a small hairline crack in the board itself right by the connectors. Now I need to decide if I want to contact Olympus and see about getting them to repair or replace the unit and find out how much that will cost or just deep six the thing outright and buy a new recorder which was something I've been contemplating doing for awhile now (even before this issue arose). Thanks for the help. I probably would have checked the connectors at some point but was hoping for not as worse of a case scenario as this.
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damn, maybe they will send you the ls-11.