Lonman, this may sound like a silly question but...have you checked or replaced your cables?

when you say skip ahead, do you mean that if you had a metronome running it would stay with the beat but that there would be drop outs in the audio, or does it sound like it was all run together but that there is some missing audio (like someone was hitting and releasing pause while you were recording.)

If the first is the case, then it sounds like a bad cable or input jack.

If the second is the case, then I sounds like the unit just cannot keep up with you or record fast enough. If there is a sampling rate choice I would make it lower and see if it helps.

These are just guesses.

Jim

PS: You should really make your subject lines better than: "Me Again."

If you line was: "Tascam 428 audio drop outs" it would attract all 428 users right away.

Thanks to everyone for replying. I didn't think about the "me again" thing. Next time I'll pay more attention. I switched the tascam from 24 bit to 16 bit and now it works fine. Thanks jdier, I was pulling out what little hair I had left.

Thanks for listening
Lonman

OK It sounds as if you have a different sample rate selected in your recording software that you are putting out of the US 428. Check to see if you have selected 24 bit recording in your Audio Set Up menu. Switching back to 16 bit on the US 428 probably fixed the problem because the software is set up currentlty to record 16 bit.