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On Monday evening, I did a load of prep on the RD-9 so I could record a new track for 909 Day.

I already had an acid line I wanted to use so it would have been fairly easy to record it live in, at most, a couple of takes.

I say would...

Last night, I realised that everything I'd done on the RD-9 hadn't saved; it had obviously been switched to manual save mode accidentally.

I wasted time going through all the banks/songs in case I'd written the wrong one down.

Nope!

Next, I turned everything else on and there was a horrible noise coming from a couple of channels of the audio interface — well, from the ADAT expansion connected to it.

Power off. Disconnect. Reconnect. Power on. Shit!

I thought the unit was toast as the TD-3 sounded fine plugged directly into the interface itself.

Another disconnect, plug the RD-9 into the interface. Shit!

Power cycle everything. Disconnect and reconnect everything. Shit! Shit! SHIT!

I turned everything off and grabbed a screwdriver. The interface came out of the rack to be checked: nothing obvious, it wasn't hot and didn't have that "I'm fried inside" smell to it.

Leaving it out if the rack, I reconnected it...

No noise. Woohoo!

I don't know what was going on, but by this time I only had a out ten minutes left of the time I had available.

Change of plan!

The track was going to be the opener for the next EP. Fortunately, I already had the third track finished which employs the RD-9, so used that instead.