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Re: SDE expander

2014-07-24 by music@...

Yesterday I fired up my SDE and to my disappointment, the wonderful sounds it used to produce had somehow been replaced by a terribly loud squall & squelching white noise emanating from the Audio outs and Headphone out. I replaced the battery a few years ago and the unit was just fine then. I haven't used the SDE since... it's been sitting in a road rack in storage.

Weird thing... if I tweak any of the knobs to full clockwise the noise disappears but there is still no audio. While turning the knobs, a "digital" aliasing noise is heard in the outs... and is loudest when the knobs are at the min position.

Thoughts?

Cheers
Alan

-"...if it's round, it ain't Simmons."

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