What's wrong with this wav?

[Willie T.]

I was running my UA-5 to laptop a few nights back at a show and as i am sitting down and tracking it out i realize that everything after an hour and 40 mins sounds like this http://home.comcast.net/~wtreynol/jmayer-error.mp3 .  This seemed to pop up just instantly durring my recording and goes all the way to the end.  It sounds like samples were dropped but compressed together in wavelab, it sounds like he's speeding talking at times.  I was recording at 24/48 into wavelab5.  It was raining and very humid that evening.  I was running a backup off the analog outs that night, so it's not a total loss, but any idea what caused this to happen?  Thanks.

[John Kelly]

You didn't accidentally bump the sample rate knob, did you?

[Willie T.]

I don't believe so, and it was burried in my bag due to the rain, so i don't think anyone else could have either.  I will give that a try later today and see if that recreates the problem.  Thanks John.

[John Kelly]

That's what it sounds like, but I guess it could be something else.  Since your analog patch was fine I think that would be the culprit...

[dklein]

It's probably not the sample rate because I believe that even if you change the setting, the UA-5 won't change until the next time you power it up.

How full / fragmented is your laptop hard drive?

[caymanreview]

that is true about the ua5 and the sample rate not changing untill it is powered off and on. it keeps whatever sample rate it is on when you fire it up

[John Kelly]

that is true about the ua5 and the sample rate not changing untill it is powered off and on. it keeps whatever sample rate it is on when you fire it up

Wow I had no clue.  Kind of a strange behavior, though...

[Willie T.]

I can't seem to reproduce the problem, and I don't think the drive is too fragmented, it had 20 gig open on a 30 gig drive.  I have ran my UA-5 approx 30 times without an issue, just crossing my fingers that it was a fluke.