DR-40 Disconnect from Power Source

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ParagonFilmworks

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While recording a wedding my DR-40 disconnected from the power source before saving the file. I've done a lot of research and made an image of the SD card to import into Audition or Audacity as a raw file but not quite successfully.

I can hear the speeches but I believe my dual recording is messing it up. It seems to be combining the two files together so it's 3 seconds of good audio, 3 seconds of the -12dB track then static. I've tried imports with different offsets etc. but no luck.

Has anyone had this problem? Any recommendations or someone I could reach out to; happy to pay.
 
I've recovered files by changing the extension to <.raw> but have only done so with standard mono or stereo WAV/ BWF files. I use Sound Forge Pro to open RAW files, but I don't think it's a application issue..that said, If you can post the file somewhere, I'll check it out with SF Pro which has a multi-channel mode (not to be confused w/multi-track).
BTW, I prefer the 'Peak reduction' level option on the DR40 which is neither AGC or a digital limiter and still allows manual adjustment whilst recording.
 
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Here's the SD card image. The issue is it did not create a 0kb file and I have the two prior clips recorded from the ceremony. So if you open the entire file (DMG) as a raw file, it jumbles everything together. You can hear sections of speeches towards the end though but not all of it, just a little of the beginning of the first it seems like. Weird because it recorded for a while after the speeches were complete. You would think it just didn't close the file and it would be there...well the file isn't there but some of the audio is somehow or somewhere.

If I can't go this route, do you know anyone would can clean up the camera scratch track? I'm paying for any resolutions.
 
You probably need to do a file recovery on the card to get the file back. You can't load the whole card as RAW, it's not an audio file. I'll give it a shot since I have a number of recovery tools.
 
Noiz2 said:
You probably need to do a file recovery on the card to get the file back. You can't load the whole card as RAW, it's not an audio file. I'll give it a shot since I have a number of recovery tools.
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I tried Recuva but it shows so many old files previously written to it I couldn't really see what was new. Interestingly enough, each recovered file through that tool had the same exact issue. It's like it puts all of the files together instead of separating them by channel. I don't know where the static comes from though.

I'm moving along with my edit but if anyone can offer help; again, happy to pay! I definitely don't want to have to use the camera audio...it's not terrible but it's not the same obviously.
 
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