Recovering MiniDV Audio

[mushmouth37]

This past weekend I filmed a live concert; about 2 hrs of video using my Panasonic AG DVC 30 camcorder with MiniDV tapes. When I got home I discovered that the video recorded fine but the audio was nonexistent or would come on for about a second and then skip off. I tried connecting it to my TV, listening through the camera mic, and downloading/extracting it to Final Cut and it was the same in all mediums. I also put a new tape in and checked that the mic on the camcorder wasn't blow out and it worked fine. My mistake, I believe is that I used a couple of tapes to record the concert that I had already used before. Is this the likely issue and more importantly is there any way to recover the sound from the recording?

[JimJohnD]

Try playing the tape back in a different camera if you can. If you still don;t audio there may not be anything 'there' to recover. I reuse tapes all the time and have never had just the audio drop. On the RARE times there was a problem I would get video blocking first/too.

Hope it works out for you.