noise on tape sunday night. help!

[Gordon]

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SparkE!

waveform looked fine.  I'll check it out again.

[Gordon]

wavform.  highlighted noise.  looks fine zoomed in as well. the print screen of the zoom was way to blurry to post.

[SparkE!]

full charged walmart battery.   

SparkE!

waveform looked fine.  I'll check it out again.

I was talking about when you zoom in close enough to see individual samples.  Are there any jump discontinuities or repeated samples in the waveform when you look at it that closely?

[CHURCH-AUDIO]

I think this noise could be in the front end of your chain. Like the mic caps being lose as was already being mentioned or a bad mic cable. But the problem is as you can see from this wavform of your sample that its broad band there are a few spikes. If it was a lose capsule it would be broad band like this but this can also be a cable issue. I would try using Deoxit on all your connections even the back of the capsule but make sure its a very very small amount. Get the gold stuff 100% the small tube is about $15.00 and it works great. Try that first it could also be a dirty pot on a preamp.

Chris Church

so I got some static etc on my rose hill drive from the other night.  nothing has changed in my rig.  same cables (xlr and opti) etc.  the jb3 had just been formated and disc clean up.  now from spot checking the opener I don't hear any static.  however it's all over the rose hill drive.  the only thing different is that I changed from hypers to cards between sets.  I haven't ran the cards in months but last time they were fine.  here's the thing that worries me.  I don't think I turned off the v3 when I changed caps.  is that bad?  I'm now thinking yea.  no idea why I didn't.  brain fart I guess.  thoughts??  I'm gonna set everythig up at the house tomorrow and run some test.  here's a short mp3 sample.

[Gordon]

can you get that stuff anywhere?

[CHURCH-AUDIO]

Here is the URL hope this helps.
http://www.caig.com/
Chris Church

can you get that stuff anywhere?

[Dutchman1101]

What ever came of this situation? Did the noise happen again? I swithced my caps today with the phantom power on and want to know if that might have caused the noise or if the mics or caps had to be serviced.

[leehookem]

This sounds like what happened to my Les Claypool recording last Wednesday.  It happened a little during Topaz on Thursday, but not Guy Forsyth on Saturday, nor Topaz on Sunday.

[Gordon]

I was never able to reproduce it.  must have been changing the caps but everything works fine.

edit:  oh and If it was the opti, I  cleaned all the cables (just wiped them off good, free of any lint etc) and never have had any issues since.

[Dutchman1101]

Cool, thanks for the info.