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Sound engineers of the world, unite... and help me out while you're at it! (pg. 2)
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
lies. you meant it and you know it! |
My internal thought process was along the lines of "Umm, that sounds dirty. Yeah, I'ma post that anyway" :p |
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| Esiotrat |
Why don't you take it to the shop you bought it from and have them take a look at it?
Sorry I'm useless. |
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| FuzzQi |
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| shaw |
| most likely, the jack's housing has come loose from whatever board is inside the player. a small screwdriver and a soldering iron will fix the problem. |
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| ReclusNdangrmnt |
| Rubbing alcohol and a Q-Tip could clean it, so long as you don't use a lot of alcohol, and force...Don't just jam it in there...:gsmile: |
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| Chris Crossland |
Yeah try some Isopropyl alcohol it's mainly used for cleaning electronics. It's the we used to clean off the flux from soldering components on circuit cards.
What kind of MP3 player is it? I could always open it up and fix any bad connections but you're pretty far away lolol. |
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| Lira |
I'll try the alcohol thing and, if it doesn't work, I'll take it to the shop. Oh, and it's one of these:
But mine is red. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by ReclusNdangrmnt
Rubbing alcohol and a Q-Tip could clean it, so long as you don't use a lot of alcohol, and force...Don't just jam it in there...:gsmile: |
All right, just tried it and blew it with a hair dryer.
I'm sure it was dirty... I must've done something wrong (too much alcohol, perhaps?) and it's dirtier now. But, on the bright side, we know this is the problem, and not something in the wiring :p |
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| EddieZilker |
| I'm not sure I completely understand the problem, but it sounds like a phase issue. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
I'm not sure I completely understand the problem, but it sounds like a phase issue. |
Can organic substances cause this sort of issue? If so, yeah, this is exactly my problem :( |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Can organic substances cause this sort of issue? If so, yeah, this is exactly my problem :( |
Possibly - and I'm only assuming. I've got a loose jack on one of my PC's and it does that sort of thing if it's not seated just right but it's a loose connection - not substance getting in the way. It's also not permanent.
When you're talking about a sound that goes away and then reappears when you invert the phase on one of your outputs, that means something is happening to the signal which causes it to cancel out in 'normal' mode. How an organic material got into that unit to create just the right amount of phase inversion to cause phase cancellation is a little beyond my pay-grade. Regardless, I'd be interested to find out. |
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| Chimney |
| Just buy yourself an iPod. Be cool. |
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