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re: Dead LED: Marantz PMD222

Subject: re: Dead LED: Marantz PMD222
From: "Greg Winterflood" <>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:07:45 -0000
--- In  Dan Dugan <> wrote:
 
> Seems to me it would be either an infant failure of the LED itself 
> (very rare), or a cracked solder joint. Either you could fix, if 
you 
> can solder. Adam works on these more often than I do, let's wait 
for 
> him to chime in.
> 
> -Dan Dugan

Thanks Dan.  I hope it is a dry joint. Easier fix.  Thanks also for 
your advice on using the side mike jack rather than the XLR jack to 
get around the XLR pre-amp.  In fact the noise I was complaining of 
was ambient noise and I'm learning to get around that by taking 
Walt's advice and finding the quiet spots.

I'm also finding that using Adobe Audition 1 can get rid of a lot of 
the unwanted stuff by using the noise reduction feature; but I am 
yet to learn how to make the resulting sounds "sound" more natural.  
I guess that will come with time.

I am surprised by the quality of what I am getting with the tape.  I 
thought I should start with it. Something like learning the 
limitations of a crystal set before moving on to making your first 
valve job.  Yep, I've been soldering since 6th grade when I made my 
first receiver using a 3S4 triode.  I've always enjoyed soldering 
(pronounced sol-dar-ing here, not 'soddering which gave me a 
surprise when I first heard it in Pennsylvania!)

Nowadays I worry a bit about the fumes and the fact that Hams seem 
to die of peculiar leukaemias; but I still love to see that first 
mercurial flow when the temp gets right.

My real concern is that I might mess things up by opening the front 
panel of the PMD222 without a map.  Maybe Adam can help here.

Thanks for coming back.

Cheers

Greg
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia




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