Hi fellow listers: Okay, I appear to have discovered a little glitche or problem with the PTR1 recorder and I wonder whether anyone else here has observed this, or better yet, observed this and found a fix, <smile>.
I recently recorded a live concert off XM satellite radio by feeding my stereo's tape output jacks to the PTR1's line input. (Actually I wound up doing this twice because the first time I inadvertently had my equalizer in the tape output path; hence, the recording was not done at a "flat" level. Thank god for concert rebroadcasts, <smile>.) Anyway, the first time, I let the PTR1 decide where to put the track marks; the second time, having a clear idea of how the concert was presented, I entered the track index points manually. I did observe, since I was right on top of the recorder when manually entering the tracks, that there was an audible increase in disk activity when track marks were being inserted. Now, I envisioned / hoped that my final recording would sound exactly like a commercial CD of a live recording, i.e., totally uninterrupted audio with sonically undiscernable, unobtrusive index points available to direct the player right to the beginning of any desired track. Well, this is not what happens with the PTR1, at least not when you enter the tracks (or allow the tracks to be entered manually; same difference). What does happen is that there is a slight, one second or so, gap / period of silence right at the point where the track index mark is inserted. I really don't like having gaps in my recordings. Is there any way to get around this? Where I'm recording concerts off the radio, my distinct preference would be to make those recordings using the PCM 44.1KHz commercial standard, which forces me to make such recordings direct to disk since you can't use that format when recording to the other storage medias supported by the PTR1, i.e., microdrive or flash card memory. All thoughts, suggestions, ideas welcome! Thanks in advance for any help. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
