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Lo all,
Newly acquired in this condition.
I loaded the demo and whilst playing there appears to be a helicopter trapped in there as there is a loud rotor beat sound!
Is it a 'striped' HD & has anyone replaced one?
I have sourced a Seagate Baraccuda 40gb.
It also sounds like an oscillation problem.
I am not familiar with the AW & I am now about to learn and attempt to investigate.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks

#1) Delete the demo song. It causes nothing but problems.
#2) Press SCENE, then Recall "Initial Data". After that run the red master fader completely up and down a couple of times.
#3) Import a song from a commercial CD (using TRACK-CD IMP) and play the song to see if you still have problems.

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Welcome. As Ralph pointed out, what your ears are most likely witnessing is the cursed demo song. While it's nice to give you a tour around the parameters, because the machine remembers all setting, you'll hearing them. By doing as Ralph says, pressing scene and initializing data, it take the recorder back to it's raw dry state. Hopefully that will cure what ails ye.

Then find Recording 101 pdf file residing here on this site. That will get you started. From there tinker around with it and feel free to ask questions.

Happy recording.

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rz-land

Welcome to the forum, Zaddy, glad you found this place.

Here <- click is a direct link to the docs page. Find the "recording 101" and even though it's written for the AW16G, it'll do just fine for the AW1600.

Never hesitate to ask anything. Happy recording!

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Thanks for a friendly welcome and your kind help.
I followed your advice and though it has removed the majority of the glitching playing a CD there is still some residual digital noise.
It's not an AB comparison as that was the HD and this is the CD.
Every 5 seconds is a half second burst of popping at the same bpm akin to a cat purr that attenuates with the red fader.
I tried various commercial CDs.
So the choppers gone to be replaced by a cat!
I think there are/were 2 separate problems here.
I have very briefly accessed AW1600s before and the demo always played fine.
In my previous search for a solution I noticed a method of making the demo editable and would like to know how to do this?
Does anyone know the cause of the demo conflict problem and what I could now try to eliminate the CD play issue?
Chrs

Hiya Zaddy,

Most important is to make sure you have a "clean" environment. Are you sure the power is OK? Is there anything on the same group that might give problems? Is there anything that could create electromagnetic interference? Try a different power outlet.

I've seen similar problems before caused by the fact that the G/1600 is a microprocessor system. Microprocessors as well as peripherals use all kinds of settings and states. An illegal combination may cause the hardware to behave erratically. These problems are solved easily: unplug the machine from power and let it be for some time. Any electrical charge will flow away and reset the states. Then reboot the machine.

The demo song makes your machine behave strangely, but in fact this is a misconception. The demo song contains all kinds of settings (volume, pan, effects, dynamics etc) and applies this many times during playback of the song. So, in fact the song is taking over the settings. This is what it's designed for, but there are so many settings affected that it's hard to remember everything when putting things back by hand. That's why recalling the initial data (press scene button, choose initial data, recall), is the best thing to do. Personally I don't think those strange noises come from scene settings, but one can never be sure.

I hope this helps at least a bit.

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Hi,
I did an AB test with another AW1600 in identical surrounding and same power supply and there was no problem.
The same Tools disc loaded the Demo and it also worked faultlessly.
How do I decouple the demo from it's auto reset mode?

So, anybody?

You can't. The only way is not to play it, and since you're not playing it, delete it.

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Format your hard drive and reload the demo again if you must.

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rz-land

Hi Zaddy and welcome to the forum.
The advice is good, the demo is ok to give you an idea of what the sound can be like, but is has caused so many people so much hassle and confusion, that the best thing is to delete it. Then I would format the hard drive and plug anything into an input, a guitar, a mike, an mp3 player or anything you can to record something, and see what happens from there, you need to eliminate the possible causes one at a time, and if there has been a left over from a previous scene from a previous owner, the format will get rid of it.
Hope you get sorted soon.

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Format is goooood.

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I formatted it many times before replying.
I removed the demo on the faulty one as soon as it was recommended.
The CD still presented a problem.
To check the HD I will have to record a track though there was a track already that had the same fault that the CD still has.
However, on the working AW1600 I would appreciate messing with the demo to familiarise myself with tracks and fx etc.

Cheers

The problems with these machines are rare. Most things are cleared up by the methods advised, and in the process the user jumps on board a steep but (usually) successful learning curve. Sounds as if your machine may have some hardware problems. I do not recall an example of symptoms that mirror what you describe. sounds as if you are a capable problem shooter, so keep at it and let us know what you determine.

Where did you get this particular unit?

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Replace the cd burner.

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rz-land

Hi again. I recorded via a 58 mic and playback had the same hard tone 'purr' noise I originally heard and again later off the CD. Okay, the demo did have digital glitching that we removed. The noise vol. responds to the master, not the channel faders.
Is there a factory reset?
Cheers

Format the HD. You can also reinstall the firmware. It has solved funny issues before.

You can find the firmware at the bottom of the docs page.

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