Katie Barnes Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Can anyone help? I press the Record button on my MZ-RH1, I put it on Hold so that nothing can stop the recording accidentally, I leave the MZ-RH1 to its own devices, then when I come to switch it off, it's stopped recording and nothing has been saved. It's not because the battery has packed in, there's plenty of power left. The mic battery is still fresh too. So WHAT'S GONE WRONG? I've lost three recordings recently because of this, and unless I can find out what's causing it, I'm off back to my faithful neglected MZ-NH 900!Any advice welcomed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Try one without the Hold button , ........ let us know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Barnes Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Try one without the Hold button , ........ let us knowThanks for the tip. Does that mean that the Hold button can actually cancel the recording then?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Thanks for the tip. Does that mean that the Hold button can actually cancel the recording then??what it might have done , is in "Hold " no functions are allowed , so it might have not allowed the unit to write a TOC at the end , not sure , I am just guessing , I have mine in Hold , BUT I am connected by a remote which is controlling the unit , so Without the remote connected , and in Hold , hmmm ............. It got Confused??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 27, 2008 Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 Can you reproduce this behaviour every time you put the unit in hold?* Moved to Hi-MD section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Barnes Posted February 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 what it might have done , is in "Hold " no functions are allowed , so it might have not allowed the unit to write a TOC at the end , not sure , I am just guessing , I have mine in Hold , BUT I am connected by a remote which is controlling the unit , so Without the remote connected , and in Hold , hmmm ............. It got Confused???????Hmmm, it seems dead easy to confuse the MZ-RH1. I can record with the MZ-NH900 on hold to make sure nothing gets depressed accidentally, I take the Hold off before pressing Stop and the recording gats saved, so I thought I could do the same with the MZ-RH1. I've just tried recording on MZ-RH1 with Hold off, and it stopped recording a good hour before I wanted it to, and saved what it had done. Progress of a sort, but not ideal! I was using a Plug-in Power mic (ECM-719), would that affect things at all? Not a remote but the mic is powered from its own switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hmmm, it seems dead easy to confuse the MZ-RH1. I can record with the MZ-NH900 on hold to make sure nothing gets depressed accidentally, I take the Hold off before pressing Stop and the recording gats saved, so I thought I could do the same with the MZ-RH1. I've just tried recording on MZ-RH1 with Hold off, and it stopped recording a good hour before I wanted it to, and saved what it had done. Progress of a sort, but not ideal! I was using a Plug-in Power mic (ECM-719), would that affect things at all? Not a remote but the mic is powered from its own switch.hmmmm that does sound like a Power regulator problem , to give an illustration, I have a Macbook Pro , and I had a Battery that seemingly had nothing wrong with it , It took a charge , Showed the charge , and at 45% left , the Macbook would just shut down , no warning no nothing . So , what it is was the Power regulator , in the Battery ( it has its own microprocessor) was sending faulty data to the Mackbook I go a new battery and the prob was gone , everything works fine now . But in the case of the RH1 , that Power regulator is in the RH1 , and if it isnt reading the power correctly , it will shut itself off , to protect itself. My 2 cents worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Barnes Posted March 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 It sounds like there's a problem with your RH1. It shouldn't shut off before you tell it to, unless it's doing some energy saving precaution, like it shuts off before it thinks it won't have enough power to do a proper save.By the way, could it also be that the eject button gets accidentaly pressed in at some moment during the recording? Though normally there's an electronic protection for that not to happen... So it shouldn't be that.I don't know really, your RH1 just shouldn't behave like that.I know, the odd thing is that it's doing it with the Hold switch on, which means that it shouldn't be able to react to any other buttons being pressed. I leave the Hold swich on as a rule because otherwise the Play button can get depressed when I don't want it to, which uses up the battery. When recording on battery I make a rule of using a fully charged battery, so it shouldn't be that the battery's packing up. Maybe a loose connection somewhere? Or could it be that it reacts to the unit being moved at all while it's saving, and that kills the "Stop and save" command? Or maybe I switched off the remote mic (ECM-719) before hitting "Stop and save", would that corrupt the file in any way?hmmmm that does sound like a Power regulator problem , to give an illustration, I have a Macbook Pro , and I had a Battery that seemingly had nothing wrong with it , It took a charge , Showed the charge , and at 45% left , the Macbook would just shut down , no warning no nothing . So , what it is was the Power regulator , in the Battery ( it has its own microprocessor) was sending faulty data to the Mackbook I go a new battery and the prob was gone , everything works fine now . But in the case of the RH1 , that Power regulator is in the RH1 , and if it isnt reading the power correctly , it will shut itself off , to protect itself. My 2 cents worth.Whoops, I replied the the wizard of oz before reading this one. Interesting. So if the power Regulator's mistakenly thinking that the battery's flat, it'll shut off? But on one recent occasion (since I started getting this problem) when I was recording with a flattening battery, the MZ-RH1 reached a point where it saved what it had been able to record and THEN shut down - whereas on other occasions it just shuts down without saving. Some fault in the saving mechanism maybe??? It doesn't happen all the time, just about 60% of the time - too high a failure rate for comfort, which is why I'm back with the MZ-NH900 until I figure this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artstar Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 The first and last time I experienced that was with my NH1 and it turned out to be a dud disc as it stopped at the exact same point. Otherwise, I always do my recordings in HiMD-SP mode and the hold button on both the unit and the remote. No problems at all and when I release the remote's hold button and press stop, it does save the data.My RH1 (which has taken the place of my NH1 unit - now relegated to backup duties) behaves in the exact same way and since that one dud disc, I haven't experienced any further issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Barnes Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 The first and last time I experienced that was with my NH1 and it turned out to be a dud disc as it stopped at the exact same point. Otherwise, I always do my recordings in HiMD-SP mode and the hold button on both the unit and the remote. No problems at all and when I release the remote's hold button and press stop, it does save the data.My RH1 (which has taken the place of my NH1 unit - now relegated to backup duties) behaves in the exact same way and since that one dud disc, I haven't experienced any further issues.Hmm, now you come to mention it, it hasn't always happened with the same disc, but I think they all come from the same box. That might just be it. I'll have a go with a virgin unsealed dsic from the box and see what gives - apart from my patience. Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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