kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
so yesterday I attempted to keep ripping my LP collection...it had been a couple of weeks or less since the last rip...
and while I started to hear the LP playing I hear some TERRIBLE distortion and , of course, my TT being the oldest and most fragile link I suspected my lovely and innocent Technics SL-QL1.. it went pretty far with me even switching to my Grado cart/stylus with the same horrific results...it started getting pretty obvious when I unplugged one of the stereo connectors while playing the LP and the image did not flinch, it stayed in "distorted mono mode" so I started suspecting the next thing in the chain..
the MOTU 828es module...
I stopped the TT and played back other files I had successfully recorded in Logic and , whaddayaknow, it was distorted!
...so, I tried to update the drivers and the MOTU went into a very strange mode, i.e. the left display started alternating between its original image and a white image that spelled the model and the brand...
SO I WENT TO BED...
this morning I wake up and since it states that you can update the module by just connecting the Ethernet cable to the back, I proceeded to do it and I abandoned my "Reset to Factory Settings" plan and turned it off while pushing the MENU button/wheel and it went immediately into update mode...I waited quite a while and I restarted it and...hey... it WORKED AGAIN!...
whew!!!
it might have been nice to get an email from MOTU warning me about that but, hey...
now you know...any of my QQ brethren with a MOTU module, BEWARE!!!
and while I started to hear the LP playing I hear some TERRIBLE distortion and , of course, my TT being the oldest and most fragile link I suspected my lovely and innocent Technics SL-QL1.. it went pretty far with me even switching to my Grado cart/stylus with the same horrific results...it started getting pretty obvious when I unplugged one of the stereo connectors while playing the LP and the image did not flinch, it stayed in "distorted mono mode" so I started suspecting the next thing in the chain..
the MOTU 828es module...
I stopped the TT and played back other files I had successfully recorded in Logic and , whaddayaknow, it was distorted!
...so, I tried to update the drivers and the MOTU went into a very strange mode, i.e. the left display started alternating between its original image and a white image that spelled the model and the brand...
SO I WENT TO BED...
this morning I wake up and since it states that you can update the module by just connecting the Ethernet cable to the back, I proceeded to do it and I abandoned my "Reset to Factory Settings" plan and turned it off while pushing the MENU button/wheel and it went immediately into update mode...I waited quite a while and I restarted it and...hey... it WORKED AGAIN!...
whew!!!
it might have been nice to get an email from MOTU warning me about that but, hey...
now you know...any of my QQ brethren with a MOTU module, BEWARE!!!