>I ran into something similar a few months ago with my Sony MZ-NHF800
>Hi-MD recorder, when trying to power a pair of 183s externally from a
>9-volt battery. It added a series of low-level clicks to the audio
>every few seconds, exactly at points where I noted disk activity during
>test recordings -- presumably writing data to the media. So yea, it
>appears MD recorders buffer the incoming data stream and dump to disk
>periodically. (I went back to PIP and the clicks disappeared.)
That last note is baffling to me; powering the mics externally should
ease the drain on the battery, if it made any difference at all. What
I heard was a very low level martian chatter that would have been
covered by the mic hiss if I had been recording at my normal level;
maybe the second site had a slightly higher ambience that masked it?
-Dan
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