--- 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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