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[tyman2006895]

I am a band director in Michigan. My jazz band and I recently did a concert at the local theatre. We hauled all of our recording gear from the school down to the theatre. For recording we use a Mac G4 with cubase, a tascam US-428, Two Shure SM-81's and a small Behringer Mixer for phantom power for the 81's. We set all of our overkill of equipment up and sound checked. Worked great! But after the concert was over, we lugged the stuff back to the school and the next went to play it back. When we went to play it back it payed at an insanly fast speed, kind of like something you'd hear on Alvin and the Chipmunks. What happened? Can my recording of the concert be salvaged, or is it shot? If it can be saved, how? How can I prevent this from happening in the future? I don't understand how the sound check sounded good and the concert recording screwed up. Hope to hear from someone soon. Thanks,

Tyler,

 

[crankz1]

Sounds like a sample rate mismatch. Likely you are trying to playback at a higher sample rate then what it was recorded at.
Make sure the Cubase project settings are set to the same sample rate that the recording was done at.