Following up on this, I have had a few emails with Olympus support
and I have even let them have some files to look at. They say that
the recorder needs to go back for repair. Well to be honest I don't
think so, seeing as there are a number of people having the same
problem.
Now a thought has just occurred to me: I am thinking that the problem
is one of the processor being interrupted while recording, but as
this is a dedicated machine, how can it be interrupted. Then it came
to me... I am sure that in the cases where I have had the pops, the
IR remote has been connected. Not necessarily been in use, but
plugged in. Perhaps the recorder is getting signals from that causing
the glitch?
A long shot I know, but I want to ask all of you that have
experienced these pops, did you also have the remote plugged in at
the time?
I am going to use the recorder with the remote taken off to see if
that stops the pops.
If this is not the case, or even if it is, I urge everyone to contact
support giving as much detail about the problem as you can. If we
don't tell them, they are not going to do anything about it. This is
a dammed fine recorder, and I really want to be able to use it
reliably. The people here on this forum are more likely to spot these
pops as we tend to record rather quiet scenes. Someone recording a
band at a concert will not notice anything!!!
Thanks,
Mike
--- In Michael Oates <> wrote:
>
> Bernie,
>
> Unfortunately, I have also had some glitches, they can occur on
either right or left but
> never at the same time. The glitch is electronic in that is spread
across the full
> frequency spectrum and looks very similar to those you can get on
the PC when your audio
> editor gets interrupted by another process or when the latency is
not setup correctly.
>
> I have produced a sonograph of a couple of typical pops here:
> http://www.mikeoates.org/arl/misc/ls-10_pop.jpg
> The left pop is 0.02 seconds in length while the one on the right
is 0.01 seconds.
>
> I was thinking it may have been some electrical interference
because the battery box I am
> using for my external mics is not screened. In fact I am right now
this weekend building
> another one in a metal box in the hope that it solves the problem.
Now I am wondering if
> it will :(
>
> The glitch or pop sound has happened when recording inside in the
warm and outside in
> freezing conditions. It has also occurred at the two recording
settings I use: 44.1kHz
> 24bit and 96kHz 24bit. The image above is from a 96kHz recording.
>
> I should add that it only occurs on a small number of recordings,
most are fine.
>
> I have also got another problem, that I can't replicate, it has
happened just twice, in
> that (again using the same battery box and external mics) the Left
channel recorded at 6dB
> lower. This is from the moment of starting that recording, even
when I had just done
> previous recordings that were fine and all I did was press stop,
them start record again.
>
> I too am now rather concerned that there may be a fault with the
machine. But as I only
> ever use it with external mics, I have not been able to rule that
part out yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> >I haven't be following posts on the LS-10 closely so forgive if
this
> >is a repeat.
> >
> >A student of mine just purchased one on my recommendation and when
we
> >came back from a short field trip there were a number of
disturbing
> >pops and clicks in the clip that sounded electronic or like
sampling
> >errors. She was recording 44.1/24bit and was not overloading. Any
> >similar experience with LS-10 owners in the group? If so, have
you
> >identified the problem?
> >
> >Bernie
> >
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