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This issue has been happening here for the past 6 months and has gotten more frequent. So far the response from Line 6 and authorize service centers is "we have no idea what this is until we take a look at it and it's going to cost you $90 per hour". Extremely disappointed with this service and such a limited warranty on an expensive and critical piece of hardware for a small non-profit performance venue. Did any of you ever get feedback on the root cause of this issue? If it's a hardware fault, then sure I'm happy to send it in for repair however since it's so intermittent, I don't want the technician to assume it's functioning fine and send it back without repair if it boots up on first try on their bench.

As per title, I often would like to leave my entire stage rig set-up with everything mic'ed up and dialed in correctly on the StageScape however when it comes to recording (especially in rehearsals) it often is inconvenient to record ALL the inputs. I thought that muting the inputs on the perform screen might do this but that is not the case so my SD card quite rapidly fills up with a lot of "blank" wav files. I read through the whole advanced manual and searched the forums but was unable to locate any mention of choosing or enabling/disabling WHICH tracks to record. Did I miss something obvious?

The first thing I did was run and grab a USB stick but it wasn't recognized by the MD20 -- I guess it needs to be a particular format or brand. Since I was in the midst of recording an interview with a local band I had to scramble and got a laptop hooked up with Stagescape drivers installed instead which worked but all the monitoring functions became useless with the 2 sec latency. End of the day, it got the job done but my confidence in the hardware has taken a big knock and I don't think it's going to hold up to my needs in the long run... Sad because it's the only mixer around that has this many i/o and multi-track recording features in one unit.

Agree -- There's a reason the Macbook SD slots are not spring hinged... fewer failure points so this was a bit of an oversight by L6. My opinion is also based on the low quality of the touch screen and the fact that there isn't quite enough processing power on tap when recording/switching between heavy duty scenes. The whole UI becomes a lag-fest with unresponsive touches and rotaries. For light duty use the MD20 does pretty well and I'm able to teach my employees and volunteers how to use it very easily. Also there isn't quite anything else like it regards multitrack recording (without the need for a computer) but at the end of the day I really don't trust the hardware to hold-up (nor do Line 6 otherwise they would offer a longer warranty wouldn't they?). I've had other hardware such as the M9 and UX series interfaces fail on me just after the warranty expired. Nearly every other piece of gear I have purchased from other companies is still going strong after years of use so it seems to me that L6 don't intend for their products to last anymore.

I used the "streaming over usb to computer" feature this weekend but it was more because the SD card slot broke on me (SD card would not latch down no matter what I tried and kept springing back out...). Since an important audio/video recording interview with a band was about to start I quickly rush to grab my laptop and install the audio interface drivers for the MD20. Fortunately that went smoothly without a hitch and 5 minutes later I had set-up my DAW to receive tracks from the mixer. Of course sending the audio to the monitors I expected would be a disaster since now I had 2 seconds of latency to really throw the interviewees off. So I disabled monitoring and went blind from there... I was surprised to see that the touchscreen and onboard effects become defunct in usb streaming mode which makes sense, you shift everything to the daw/computer instead. I would not use the USB-streaming except in an emergency like this so at least the event could go ahead as planned but it was far from perfect and with mechanical failures after only 2 months... well I am pretty jaded with line 6 products by this point and think I will be selling the md20 once I get the sd card slot fixed. Sorry Line 6 great ideas but cheap production/hardware have killed what little faith I had in the brand. Nearly all the line 6 products I have brought have died on me sooner or later and the short 1 year warranty and high cost of repair means all that gear turns into worthless bricks.

Hey all, Was wondering if anyone else experienced the same issue? I've searched the board but found no other mention so possibly it's just a one-off or under-reported. Essentially after two months of light usage (swapped in SD cards only a half-dozen times...) the SD card slot no-longer latches onto the card. It seems like some kind of small mechanical failure but it is critical for recording my live events (I use the USB port for the wifi dongle...). Somehow the latching or locking part no-longer works and when I insert an SD card, it merely pops back out again. I have tested with different cards and they all do the same thing. If I hold it down then the MD20 registers the card so it's not a problem as far as reading or interfacing goes. Just poor mechanical construction evidently... I can't believe my $2,000 investment has essentially been brought to it's knees over something as small and trivial as this. It's too late for me to return the system now, but it should be under warranty still, so what should I do next?