Thanks for the rapid responses! 🙂 Yeah unfortunately I can faintly hear them on the deck speakers as well. It’s definitely very odd. I was hoping this might be a common problem but I get the feeling it’s not. Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be using a friends deck to capture the footage and see how bad the distortions are then. If they don’t show up with the new deck, I’ll assume it’s not the tapes and just my camera. I’m hoping though that it is the tapes, because it’d make more sense due to the fact that this has happened before with different cameras. The only constant factor being the tapes.