It Was Driving Me Nuts!

[Zaphod B]

The other day I created a new percussion track for a song that I had previously recorded on the 2488. I'm using a Boss DR-670 drum machine for drum tracks.

So I hooked up the 2488 to the DR-670, made sure everything was synced up MIDI-wise, and recorded the persussion to a linked stereo pair. Everything sounded and appeared normal.

When I played back the recorded track, the drum tracks sounded funny so I soloed them - they had some kind of phase shift or flanger effect going on.

I don't use the 2488's effects much so I spent some time poking around, made sure all the multi-effects were disabled, no effect or loop sends out of the linked pair, and still I was getting the phase shift thing.

Monitored playback through the effects loop and am not hearing any effect on those channels.

Cleaned out the tracks on which the drum tracks had been recorded, and re-recorded. Monitoring during recording shows no effect on the linked stereo pair. During playback, there is the effect again!

At this point I would have been tearing out my hair if I had any.

Then I looked at the DR-670 drum machine and realized that it is still powered on and hooked up, and every time I play back the song the 2488 is commanding the DR-670 to play the percussion tracks, and I have left the gain up on the input channels......so the linked pair is playing not only the recorded perscussion but an identical version coming from the DR-670. And the two are off in in time and/or frequency by just enough to give a phase shift effect when the two are played simultaneously!

Sheesh, live and learn. I'll remember that lesson.

[A Reel Person]

PSYCH!!!!!

[Zaphod B]

No shit!