My Yamaha AW2816 is starting to give me trouble. I’m trying to record an acoustic guitar through a Shure KSM27 -- something I’ve done successfully many times in the past – but now when I hold a sustained chord on the guitar, the signal decays to gravel instead of fading naturally. The guitar sounds fine until the dBs start getting low, and then instead of fading smoothly, the signal decays into a really unpleasant gravelly crunch.
This has never happened before.
I’ve ruled out the mic and cable by swapping out both and getting the same results. It may help you to know that I get the same results on either of the recorder’s two phantom power inputs. I also get the same results when I plug the guitar’s internal mic directly into the recorder’s Hi-Z input. It may also help you to know that I can hear the gravelly decay in the headphones when playing live as well as on the recorded track.
One last thing: I deleted all non-critical material last night and defragged the hard drive. That didn't work, either.
Does this sound like something that can be fixed or bypassed, or am I about to be in the market for a new recorder?
This has never happened before.
I’ve ruled out the mic and cable by swapping out both and getting the same results. It may help you to know that I get the same results on either of the recorder’s two phantom power inputs. I also get the same results when I plug the guitar’s internal mic directly into the recorder’s Hi-Z input. It may also help you to know that I can hear the gravelly decay in the headphones when playing live as well as on the recorded track.
One last thing: I deleted all non-critical material last night and defragged the hard drive. That didn't work, either.
Does this sound like something that can be fixed or bypassed, or am I about to be in the market for a new recorder?