Veronique 65
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Hello all,
I've had an odd problem develop recently. I've been mastering albums from four-track cassette to MP3 via Goldwave for over ten years. Suddenly, I've had a change in signal quality. For the first few seconds, the sound is normal; then the incoming signal becomes weaker and there is a strong phase-shifting sound. Yet, if I plug the exact same machine through the same cord from the same outputs into an amplifier or other sound source, there is no such problem and the tape sounds normal. This is also the same if I stop the tape and rewind or otherwise start it over. It sounds fine, then the effect kicks in. Similarly, I tried to send the output through the headphone out jack instead of the stereo outs. The same thing happened--weird weak signal, phase shifting sound. And yet if I listen through that same headphone jack through a headset, it sounds perfectly normal. I've never had anything like that happen before in years of recording this way. My experiments tell me it can't be the machine because it sounds normal plugged into anything other than my computer--could the computer be the problem? (unfortunately I only have one computer with separate mic and speaker inputs).
Thank you in advance.
I've had an odd problem develop recently. I've been mastering albums from four-track cassette to MP3 via Goldwave for over ten years. Suddenly, I've had a change in signal quality. For the first few seconds, the sound is normal; then the incoming signal becomes weaker and there is a strong phase-shifting sound. Yet, if I plug the exact same machine through the same cord from the same outputs into an amplifier or other sound source, there is no such problem and the tape sounds normal. This is also the same if I stop the tape and rewind or otherwise start it over. It sounds fine, then the effect kicks in. Similarly, I tried to send the output through the headphone out jack instead of the stereo outs. The same thing happened--weird weak signal, phase shifting sound. And yet if I listen through that same headphone jack through a headset, it sounds perfectly normal. I've never had anything like that happen before in years of recording this way. My experiments tell me it can't be the machine because it sounds normal plugged into anything other than my computer--could the computer be the problem? (unfortunately I only have one computer with separate mic and speaker inputs).
Thank you in advance.
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