I have had my camcorder repaired and all seemed fine until I went to capture
some footage. The audio is very poor, slightly distorted with the occasional
'static' pop and crackle at random points. The static is not on the tape
doesn't tend to appear at the same point twice.

Since the camera has just come back it is prime suspect but I expect to have
difficulty pinning anything on anyone due to the random nature of the
interference. I don't have a spare machine with firewire so I cannot
eliminate my PC, I only know it was ok and I would expect the firewire ports
to be pretty indestructible.Again not having another digital cam I cannot
try on my PC to absolutely eliminate the PC from blame.

Has anyone had any similar experience. My initial thoughts was that I was
picking up interference but I powered down all auxiliary kit without
improvement. The system is filtered and well earthed on the mains side.. I'm
running out of ideas.

Regards,

Martin