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Title: need help id'ing a problem, bad cord or bad preamp
Post by: deadheadcorey on March 04, 2013, 12:30:56 AM

so i recorded mickey hart on friday night, got home and listen to the recording. most notable during the end of china cat sunflower. it sounds like the recorded changes sources maybe internal mics or i dont know if it is the preamp (ua-5 or) or a bad cord

http://archive.org/details/mhb2013-03-01.fob.mc803.kindrec

any thoughts?

thanks in advance

Title: Re: need help id'ing a problem, bad cord or bad preamp
Post by: F.O.Bean on March 04, 2013, 12:39:35 AM

I hear it. It gets louder, right?

Title: Re: need help id'ing a problem, bad cord or bad preamp
Post by: deadheadcorey on March 04, 2013, 01:12:53 AM

Quote from: F.O.Bean on March 04, 2013, 12:39:35 AM

I hear it. It gets louder, right?

listen to shakedown street

sounds fine they weird noise happens and it gets lower

Title: Re: need help id'ing a problem, bad cord or bad preamp
Post by: Karl on March 04, 2013, 05:27:11 PM

Is it possibly where the recorder starts a new file?

Pull it into a wav editor and invert the signal on one channel, see if that has a similar effect. Sounds to me like it's going out of phase at the end of china cat.

Title: Re: need help id'ing a problem, bad cord or bad preamp
Post by: jbell on March 05, 2013, 06:02:14 PM

Check your battery cable!!  I had a buddy with a UA-5 that did a lot of trouble shooting then it turned out he had a bad battery cable.  Your problem sounds similar.

Title: Re: need help id'ing a problem, bad cord or bad preamp
Post by: deadheadcorey on March 05, 2013, 10:34:50 PM

Quote from: jbell on March 05, 2013, 06:02:14 PM

Check your battery cable!!  I had a buddy with a UA-5 that did a lot of trouble shooting then it turned out he had a bad battery cable.  Your problem sounds similar.

Come to think of it. I have been having issues with my battery cable..