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- Tascam FW-1884 Tascam DR-680
I am not really sure if my FW-1884 is actually damaged or is there is something I am not doing right....
Everything was working fine and I had a dynamic microphone connected to channel 5 input XLR, with phantom power turned on.
Without turning phantom power off and without turning the mixer off, I unplugged one microphone from the XLR cable and plugged in another one. It may be totally unrelated but I noticed then that channel 5 was not passing the sound of the microphone. Instead it had a static sound like "rain". A "Sshhhhhh..." kind of continuous sound, if you understand what I mean.
I have tried unplugging everything from channel 5. I have tried unplugging the XLR and plugging a sound source to the unballanced jack input. I have also tried turning phantom power on and off... No matter what I try, the loud static sound "shhhhh" is always there.
I noticed that if I change the Monitor source to "Computer", instead of "inputs" or "Both", the sound vanishes so, the problem seems to be in the input.
What can this be?.... Is the channel 5 input damaged? Can it be fixed?...
Finally and since we're talking about damages, one of my Firewire inputs is not working (for some years now). Can this be fixed somehow? I'm afraid the other Firewire input stops working and the FW-1884 will become obsolete, specially as DAW.
Everything was working fine and I had a dynamic microphone connected to channel 5 input XLR, with phantom power turned on.
Without turning phantom power off and without turning the mixer off, I unplugged one microphone from the XLR cable and plugged in another one. It may be totally unrelated but I noticed then that channel 5 was not passing the sound of the microphone. Instead it had a static sound like "rain". A "Sshhhhhh..." kind of continuous sound, if you understand what I mean.
I have tried unplugging everything from channel 5. I have tried unplugging the XLR and plugging a sound source to the unballanced jack input. I have also tried turning phantom power on and off... No matter what I try, the loud static sound "shhhhh" is always there.
I noticed that if I change the Monitor source to "Computer", instead of "inputs" or "Both", the sound vanishes so, the problem seems to be in the input.
What can this be?.... Is the channel 5 input damaged? Can it be fixed?...
Finally and since we're talking about damages, one of my Firewire inputs is not working (for some years now). Can this be fixed somehow? I'm afraid the other Firewire input stops working and the FW-1884 will become obsolete, specially as DAW.