I mentioned yesterday that I was going to try and use the digital voice recorder which I purchased about six years ago in order to record from our new mixer in the rehearsal room. I charged the device throughout Friday night, and on Saturday morning, I took it down to the room.
I had already discovered that there is a problem with the recorder: when the USB cable is connected to power, the recorder shows that it is 100% charged, but when I disconnect the cable, the recorder says that its battery is empty and immediately turns itself off. This is annoying but not insurmountable as next to the mixer is a strip of power sockets, so I can always have the recorder connected to power when it is supposed to be recording.
After turning the mixer on and connecting the cable to the input socket on the recorder, my first attempts at recording were unsuccessful and recorded nothing. When I looked at the mixer, I understood why: for some reason, after our final rehearsal, someone muted all the channels. So I unmuted the channels to which were connected some microphones, started recording then walked to a microphone where I counted to eight. I stopped the recording and played it back: I could hear silence then me counting. So it appears that the recorder does record.
When I got home, I continued playing with the recorder. For some reason, the files on it were dated 01/01/15, so I tried to find any setup options that would allow me to set the recorder's date. I did indeed find the required setting and set the date, but as soon as I disconnected the recorder from the power, as noted earlier the recorder turned itself off. When I reconnected the power, the clock had reset to 01/01/15.
But more importantly, I discovered that I could set the input source: there were three options, being microphone, line in and one other that I don't recall. The microphone was set as the input source, and it seems that this change is maintained even if the recorder is turned off. In other words, my test in the rehearsal room didn't test anything as I recorded my counting through the internal microphone and not via the line in socket. Despite this, I strongly suspect that the line in socket will work next time.
As a new voice recorder can be had for about 70 NIS (about $14), I decided to order a new one so that the power problem wouldn't be a problem. A new device would probably solve the problems that I was having with this old one.
Yesterday was also problematic in that my mobile computer froze three times. At first I thought it was because of the voice recorder being connected, but the computer froze after I restarted it. The first step in checking the computer was to run the command sfc /scannow; this checks the validity of the standard Windows files. A few problems were discovered. I then ran the command DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth; this restores any missing Windows files. This completed successfully and a second run of sfc showed no errors, so hopefully the computer should not freeze today.
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