I’m in a band and members frequently bring in new songs on iPods so they can share them, by plugging the proper cable into the headphone jack and playing the device through our PA system or guitar amps. When I try this with my Fuze, the songs cut in and out constantly. This never happens with headphones, so I know there is not a problem with the headphone jack or the device. The cutting in and out is regular, as if there is a data problem. Why would this only happen when I use the Fuze this way, and why doesn’t it happen on iPods? Advice?
Solved. It didn’t seem like a clipping problem, but it was. Brought down the EQ and voila, no problem. Combined with Rhapsody To Go (the best thing since the phonograph record), I love this device.
@stevedc wrote:
I’m in a band and members frequently bring in new songs on iPods so they can share them, by plugging the proper cable into the headphone jack and playing the device through our PA system or guitar amps. When I try this with my Fuze, the songs cut in and out constantly. This never happens with headphones, so I know there is not a problem with the headphone jack or the device. The cutting in and out is regular, as if there is a data problem. Why would this only happen when I use the Fuze this way, and why doesn’t it happen on iPods? Advice?
the output will be the same throught the headjack to your headphones as it is to your PA system. The data isn’t going to change. It’s an output. I assume you are connecting through the headphone jack. On some fuzes/clips this jack is very tight, and you have to be sure that the plug is all the way in. Happened to a relative when she tryed to connect hers to her car stereo with a line in connection, She wasn’t pluging the jack all the way in the player.
I guess it could also be the plug / jack combination that might be the problem. You could also check the volume, maybe adjusting the volume may help if something is over driven.
That’s my 2 cents, sorry if this doesn’t help,
Cheers
@stevedc wrote:
Solved. It didn’t seem like a clipping problem, but it was. Brought down the EQ and voila, no problem. Combined with Rhapsody To Go (the best thing since the phonograph record), I love this device.
^_^ Took me too long to post :P Good job.
Cheers
Something that I’ve seen cause problems on some players is shorting the left & right outputs together to get a mono signal - the sort of thing you might do to feed a player through a mono guitar amp, which is exactly when I saw it happening!
If one channel has a big signal on it, especially a bass note, but the other doesn’t, it looks like a short circuit to the headphone amp, which then cuts out to protect itself. It’s more likely to happen with the player volume turned up high.
I haven’t seen this with a Sansa, maybe because they don’t do it, but probably mostly because I try to avoid shorting the L & R signals together anymore…
