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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Hart" data-source="post: 9950" data-attributes="member: 6990">Hi everyone,I&#039;m looking for input on tracking down a stray intermittent click.I&#039;ve got a client that I sold a simple small analog system to that started sending me clips of a click that was occurring on 2 different recording devices as well as the house PA. The basic sic set up is a Shure ULXP lav split into 2 channels of a Midas Venice U24. There&#039;s a dbx compressor inserted on one of the lav channels and the other feeds the 2 recording devices (tascam flash recorder and a zoom flash recorder via 2 different auxes. The house loudspeakers are mackie SRM450 or similar. They&#039;re also using a Hear Technologies self mix type system. I&#039;ve got a Furman power conditioner distributing AC. The click doesn&#039;t sound like RF interference, bad cable, or clipping. It&#039;s a single click that looks similar to an impulse trace. I have not been able to replicate it on demand, but I have positively ruled out a few elements:- it&#039;s not the ULXP. I&#039;ve swapped that out. - the XLR cable and the XLR Y cable have been changed- the compressor and the insert cables have been removed- static is not likely because it&#039;s a tile environment. What I have not been able to try:- a different mixer. - confirm phantom is off- rule out the PA- bumping to different inputsi don&#039;t have easy access to the system, so I&#039;m brainstorming and trying a little at a time. I hate to think it&#039;s the mixer, but it&#039;s looking more and more like it. I&#039;ve never had a problem using a Y cable to split an input either. It has to be something that ties back to the Y though, since it&#039;s coming through both RF inputs. I doubt it&#039;s the Y itself since (A) it got changed and (B) it sounds like an electronically generated click.Does anyone have any brilliant ideas? This is a stumper. I could see phantom being problematic, but I have to wait to see if it&#039;s on. Im standing by to get it back in the shop to test it further, but I would appreciate any ideas anyone may have. Thanks,Bill</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bill Hart, post: 9950, member: 6990"] Hi everyone, I'm looking for input on tracking down a stray intermittent click. I've got a client that I sold a simple small analog system to that started sending me clips of a click that was occurring on 2 different recording devices as well as the house PA. The basic sic set up is a Shure ULXP lav split into 2 channels of a Midas Venice U24. There's a dbx compressor inserted on one of the lav channels and the other feeds the 2 recording devices (tascam flash recorder and a zoom flash recorder via 2 different auxes. The house loudspeakers are mackie SRM450 or similar. They're also using a Hear Technologies self mix type system. I've got a Furman power conditioner distributing AC. The click doesn't sound like RF interference, bad cable, or clipping. It's a single click that looks similar to an impulse trace. I have not been able to replicate it on demand, but I have positively ruled out a few elements: - it's not the ULXP. I've swapped that out. - the XLR cable and the XLR Y cable have been changed - the compressor and the insert cables have been removed - static is not likely because it's a tile environment. What I have not been able to try: - a different mixer. - confirm phantom is off - rule out the PA - bumping to different inputs i don't have easy access to the system, so I'm brainstorming and trying a little at a time. I hate to think it's the mixer, but it's looking more and more like it. I've never had a problem using a Y cable to split an input either. It has to be something that ties back to the Y though, since it's coming through both RF inputs. I doubt it's the Y itself since (A) it got changed and (B) it sounds like an electronically generated click. Does anyone have any brilliant ideas? This is a stumper. I could see phantom being problematic, but I have to wait to see if it's on. Im standing by to get it back in the shop to test it further, but I would appreciate any ideas anyone may have. Thanks, Bill [/QUOTE]

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