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Checking back in...
Well it's been a while... the world's moved on quite a bit... now doing more video than audio, but keeping my hand in from time to time.
Mega-disaster 3 weeks ago: Multimic, multitrack high profile live recording which took me almost all day to rig. Now using a Cymatic 16-track fed from the inserts of a 16-mic mixer. Hard-disk failure after about 5 minutes of the concert... First time in over 50 years I've had a total failure like that.... A lesson has been learnt...
Toodle-pip.
Mega-disaster 3 weeks ago: Multimic, multitrack high profile live recording which took me almost all day to rig. Now using a Cymatic 16-track fed from the inserts of a 16-mic mixer. Hard-disk failure after about 5 minutes of the concert... First time in over 50 years I've had a total failure like that.... A lesson has been learnt...
Toodle-pip.
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Mike Stranks - Jedi Poster
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Welcome back Mike!
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Nice to see you back again Mike.
Condolences on the disc failure.

Condolences on the disc failure.
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Welcome back Mike. You've been much missed!
Hard drive failure? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? Haven't had one for so long now that it's not been a consideration, but you're quite right: it could happen to any of us at anytime. And SSDs or memory cards aren't immune either.
I always used to run a backup recorder, but then moved onto a single recorder that wrote to two drives simultaneously (SADiE), but there aren't many that allow that. Now I mostly use a Nagra VI which copies each take automatically from the HDD to a compact flash card, but a drive failure would scupper the last take.
Food for thought when it comes to unrepeatable recording sessions!
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Hard drive failure? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? Haven't had one for so long now that it's not been a consideration, but you're quite right: it could happen to any of us at anytime. And SSDs or memory cards aren't immune either.
I always used to run a backup recorder, but then moved onto a single recorder that wrote to two drives simultaneously (SADiE), but there aren't many that allow that. Now I mostly use a Nagra VI which copies each take automatically from the HDD to a compact flash card, but a drive failure would scupper the last take.
Food for thought when it comes to unrepeatable recording sessions!
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Open arms, mate. Good to see you here. 

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Great to see you back, I really appreciated your posts.
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Seriously chuffed to see you back. Let's organise a sosmeet again in the spring!
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The Elf wrote:Open arms, mate. Good to see you here.
+1 I really appreciated your advice an various things.
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Mike! hey man, nice to see you! I took a while out as well, and popped back for a splash but the water in here is lovely so I stayed in the pool 

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Wonks sends some bunny hops.
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Did the HDD totally fail, or did it just stop recording? A friend found that his HDD attached to his Cymatic kept stopping recording at various times from vibrations when it all got loud. He changed to an SSD and that cured the issue.
Until his singer knocked the recorder off the table to the ground...
Until his singer knocked the recorder off the table to the ground...
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Wonks wrote:Did the HDD totally fail, or did it just stop recording? A friend found that his HDD attached to his Cymatic kept stopping recording at various times from vibrations when it all got loud. He changed to an SSD and that cured the issue.
Until his singer knocked the recorder off the table to the ground...
Just stopped recording.... So I'd restart and it would run for a variable amount of time - 30 secs-5mins - and then stop again.
And it was a choral concert with narration and piano accompaniment so nothing too loud.
I've subsequently tried the disc and recorder set-up again at home and had the same problems of repeated failures. Another hard-drive and everything's tickety-boo...
Strange thing is that running diagnostics on the iffy disc came back with a clean bill of health.
So in the future I'll always have a spare hard-drive/proven USB sticks plus the Zoom F4. If the worst come to the worst then it'll be a straight mix to stereo... just like the good old days!

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Welcome back MIke! You've been missed!
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Mike Stranks wrote:Strange thing is that running diagnostics on the iffy disc came back with a clean bill of health.
It does sound like a power supply failure. There's nothing wrong with the electronics, but simply every so often they stop receiving any juice, and stop.
I had an old Lacie disk doing just that, swapped the power supply and it was just fine.
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If the disk check reported a clean bill of health I'd be suspicious of a power supply issue too.
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The place just feels more 'complete' with you here Mike 
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It's great to see you back Mike.
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Great to hear from you Mike, it's so good to have you back.
Sorry to hear about the HD failure - lesson for us all there!
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Sorry to hear about the HD failure - lesson for us all there!
Bob
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zenguitar wrote:The place just feels more 'complete' with you here Mike
One of the nicest, most helpful, and genuine people on 't web.
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+1
Great to see you back Mike

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Good to have you back Mr. Stranks 

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