Re: MD: Making 2 or 4 hours recordings

2001-10-03 Thread Christopher Hicks
ic prinicples to suppress some low-level signals in >the presence of larger amplitude information. Unfortunately, domestic video >machines usually provide no direct way of getting at digital outputs and The audio does not exist on the tape in digital form (at least on

Re: MD: (OT, rant) Michael Jackson

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Hicks
ual arrangements than copy protection, but it does emphasise that for those involved behind the headlines every record sale does indeed count, and every lost sale to a pirate hits a lot of people, not just the so-called star. Christopher Hicks --

Re: MD: Re: Hearing Compression Artifacts

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Hicks
x27;re saying). I have heard intelligible (just about) speech coded at as low as 100 bits per second. This is remarkable given that to code the 64 phonemes of western speech at 10 phonemes per second (again, typical for western speech) requires an absolute mini

Re: MD: Hearing Compression Artifacts (was: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate)

2001-08-13 Thread Christopher Hicks
ing about until I taught him what to listen to, and then he, too, found them obvious and could reliably pick them out. I shouldn't have done this really - it turned a recording he was very pleased with into one he was a bit miffed with.

RE: MD: Recording MDs with microphones...

2001-08-02 Thread Christopher Hicks
ec has been arrived at, so the situation could actually be a lot worse. Christopher Hicks - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MD: Recording MDs with microphones...

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Hicks
al publishers, so let me have your comments! << While working on a unrelated >project a few years ago, I used a 16 character x 2 line LCD as a high >resoltion >analog bar-graph meter with software controlled ballistics, as well as for >its normal >text display fun

Re: MD: [Fwd: Digital Recording Experiment (Sorry, No Direct Mando Content)]

2001-06-27 Thread Christopher Hicks
tried the same experiment with a CD-R or DAT recorder you should find that the waveforms are identical since these record raw PCM. Christopher Hicks - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: "new" $40 soundcard

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Hicks
s) has a good introduction to how the interface works. For a less detailed, but practical introduction, you can look at the data sheets for the CS8402 and CS8412 chips from Cirrus Logic (www.cirrus.com) which implement the transmit and receive sides of the interface respectively. Christopher

MD: Portable MD recorder for pro-ish use

2001-06-05 Thread Christopher Hicks
title discs/tracks, transfer the TOC and so on? If so that would make the basis of an excellent disc cataloguing system. Regards, Christopher Hicks - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MD: HHb MDP500

2001-06-04 Thread Christopher Hicks
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