Hi all,
First off, I'd like to thank everyone for this wonderful site. In the last couple of months I've managed to get myself set up with a sweet little stealth rig for very little $$. I did it all by lurking; searching and reading got me to an iRiver h120 and to Church Audio for some cardioids and an ST-9100 pre-amp. I got the iRiver through the Yard Sale in a great transaction and Chris Church has been very nice to me as well. I've used my setup a few times now and I'm astounded by how the recordings sound. This site is an awesome resource, thank you.
Now this is my first post; I've got a wav file that just doesn't look or sound right. Forgive me if I get the screen-shots f*cked up. The file names match the description if they are not visible in the post.
Please have a look at the wav form in the file wav_somethingswrong.gif. The bottom half is all wrong. I really don't know what I'm looking at when I look at these things, but for what it's worth, the scale is "Waveform" from 1.0 at the top to -1.0 at the bottom. The sound isn't great and there are crackles and snaps in the quiet bits.
The file wav_looksgood.gif is from the same song two nights earlier. Same scale; everything looks healthy.
Now I have a couple of guesses to follow up on:
1) 9v battery in the pre-amp. It had a maximum of 20 hours service before this show started and I thought it was supposed to last much longer than that.
2) Loose connection? Could a loose connection cause these symptoms?
Thank you everyone again,
drapes
P.S. If anyone is trying to guess; the song in the highlighted area of the screenshots is Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell". The good one is from Montreal on the 26th, and the not so good one is from Ottawa on the 28th.