MD: Build you own $100 Mics - Cheap!
I have some matched PANASONIC mic capsules for sale under MICROPHONES at the MD Classified page. Build your own Mics! Check out "http://www.arches.uga.edu/~tidmarsh/binmic.html" These are the capsules you will need AND they are already MATCHED FOR YOU! Jeff - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Best place to buy Sony MZR50 or 55 in Germany?
Hi all Does anyone have a recommendation or knowledge of the best place to buy a Sony MZR50 or 55 in Germany? I'm not sure whether or not the 50 is still available What's the best price at the moment? Thanks for your time, and in anticipation of your responses, Regards, Angela - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Build you own $100 Mics - Cheap!
Since the minidisc recorders have "plug in power" in the mike circuit, you can simplify the circuit and eliminate the battery, resistors and capacitors and wire the capsules directly. Also, sometimes it is more convenient to not have to mess with cables. So, here is a T mike that I designed http://www.tir.com/~liteways/Mandolin.html#Microphone It may be a little easier to build. Take your pick. I don't know if your capsules are the larger ones or the small ones, but the should be able to work in either design. Jeff Medin wrote: I have some matched PANASONIC mic capsules for sale under MICROPHONES at the MD Classified page. Build your own Mics! Check out "http://www.arches.uga.edu/~tidmarsh/binmic.html" These are the capsules you will need AND they are already MATCHED FOR YOU! Jeff - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MXD-D3 and CD-TEXT from recorded CDRs
I recently purchased a Sony MXD-D3 and in trying out various things with it I noticed that when I copied a CDR that I had recorded on my computer with the cdrdao program that had CD-TEXT on it that the MXD-D3 would not copy the CD-TEXT (it flashed a message "Text Protected" at the start of each track). I then copied the original prerecorded CD and it successfully copied the CD-TEXT as well. The only thing I can confirm is that trying to copy a CD with CD-TEXT on my MXD-D3 resulted in a "text protected" message. My CDR recorders (the HHB-800 and the HHB-850) are audio recorders, not computer-based, so I rather doubt that any CD-TEXT is recorded on to the CDRs. Jim Resinger 12/12/99 1018 |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Name Full!!!
I wrote a long letter on this subject yesterday but it somehow got lost in the great confines of the universe, so I'll try again. It is very common for me to run out of space when titling discs because I use titles like these: WAITING FOR TONIGHT (Pablo Flores Miami Mix (English)) / JENNIFER LOPEZ December 1999 Billboard Hot 100 Airplay No. 4 November 1999 Billboard No. 8 track from "On The 6" BPM:130 The Jennifer Lopez song is interesing, because there are many dance mixes of the song, yet you can only buy the song if you buy the album or a 12 inch VINYL single, there is no U.S. commercial single available. (at least not yet.) So the Billboard Hot 100 peak chart position is lower than the Billboard Hot 100 peak positiion. Another example of this is Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" which was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart for 6 weeks, yet because there was only a 12 inch VINYL single commercially available, the best it could do on the Billboard Hot 100 was No. 3. I always put the chart numbers of songs in my titles and update the TOC each week as a song climbs the charts. Sometimes, this means going way back as in the case of "The Rockafeller Skank" by Fatboy Slim, which originally peaked at No. 78 in October 1998, but which now has a second chart life and has peaked again at No. 77 in November 1999. I note both chart positions because the song essentially has two chart lives, having charted, then falling off the chart for an extended period of time, only to reenter the chart a second time. In recent chart history, the most succsessful song I can recall doing this was "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio, which peaked at No. 45 the first time around, and over a year later, reentered the chart and went to No. 1, where it stayed for 14 weeks. Starting with the Billboard Hot 100 the first issue of December 1998, Billboard changed it's chart policy and allowed songs with no commercial retail single to chart on the Hot 100, whereas before, they were only eligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. This was done because of the ever growing trend of labels not to release single versions of a lot of hit songs, so the consumer would have to buy the album instead. Thus, songs that were huge at radio like "Walkin' On The Sun" by Smash Mouth never appeared on the Hot 100, although the song was No. 2 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. This year, because of the change in chart methodology, Smash Mouth's "All Star" reached No. 4 on the Hot 100, despite the fact a commercial U.S. single was never released. This is the highest position a song has attained on the Hot 100 without a commercial single being available, although this week "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden ties the No. 4 mark. Brian McKnight's "Back At One" is No. 2, but technically, is a single because a 12 inch VINYL version is available, but sales of this type of single are minimal and generally don't affect a songs Hot 100 position. Where titling can really take up space is a song like "My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From "Titanic") by Celine Dion. The song was No. 1 for 10 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, then, finally, when a limited edition single (650.000 copies only) was released the song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks. All this information is titled into my minidisc copies. In addition to that, I also note the albums. In this case, the song appears on two different albums (not counting the new Greatest Hits album, which I would not insert into the title because it was not released at the time of the song's peak popularity), the "Titanic" soundtrack, of course, and Celine Dion's album "Let's Talk About Love". In addition to that, there are many different versions of the song, all with their own mix names. There are several dance versions which were never commercially released in the U.S., and a number of ambitious Top 40 radio station music directors created their own versions with dialogue from the film interspersed with the song itself. These included the Titanic Z104 Version, Nick's KIIS Mix, KISS Dallas Mix and a few others. The all time champ for pain in the a** titling has to be the new Fiona Apple album title. The official title is NINETY WORDS LONG! Even Billboard officially lists it as "When The Pawn...", forgoing the remaining 87 words, which I do as well, when titling a song from that album, so far the only one I have is the leadoff single (although again not available as a retail single) "Fast As You Can" which would be a good contest in a bar for anybody who could actually recite the entire album title, no doubt much harder to memorize than the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments of the traditional Christian Bible. I run out of space for words so often I am ocassionally forced to title tracks with numbers, as in "309A5". 309 refers to the HitDisc series (HitDisc is a weekly programming service provided to radio stations, producion companies, disc
Re: MD: Digital soundcard for laptop?
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:55 AM Subject: MD: Digital soundcard for laptop? I'm looking for a soundcard with a digital out for my laptop PC...everything I've seen thus far has been strictly for desktop PC...any suggestions? db Does Your Laptop have USB Support? If so, I've got a recommendation for a product that'll be easier to work into your laptop than a digital sound card with the appropriate i/o config to record digitally. It's a Roland UA30, Analog I/O (RCA stereo w/ gain control 1/4" mono guitar or mic in w/ gain control) and Digital I/O (TOSLink Coaxial). They're available @klay.com for $289 and they're very sweet (but you've gt to have a laptop with USB Support and win98/win2000... they have TypeII USB Cards... in case you don't have native support). You can probably email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get a very detailed .pdf file from him that will answer most of your questions. I've had mine long enough to use it to master several CDs and the is a DISTINCT Difference from the CDs I used to make going across analog into my PC ... and I was very careful to have the ideal environment for the conversion. But this device blows it away! If you're going from analog source to digital, the conversion is superb. Peace, Tom - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Build you own $100 Mics - Cheap!
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === What's special about these mikes that it's worth using them instead of the cheap mikes you can buy at stores. Why build one? At 05:21 PM 12/12/99 -0500, you wrote: I have some matched PANASONIC mic capsules for sale under MICROPHONES at the MD Classified page. Build your own Mics! Check out "http://www.arches.uga.edu/~tidmarsh/binmic.html" These are the capsules you will need AND they are already MATCHED FOR YOU! Jeff - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Best place to buy Sony MZR50 or 55 in Germany?
Angela M. Turner wrote: I'm not sure whether or not the 50 is still available The R50 was getting rare when I was shopping around about 5 months ago (in and around Hamburg), at least that's the impression that I got. It was going for 600 DM at either Karstadt or Media Markt. Alexander -- | Alexander Dietrich | Norderstedt, Germany | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: LAME/BladeEnc | Re: A little non-scientific ATRAC Sharp vs. Sony test
After Jake told me about LAME, I went and downloaded and compared it to L3enc and BladeEnc... I must say, I am amazed at the difference between it and Blade -- it's like going from 80 kbps MP3 to a MD. :) From now on, if I have to make an mp3, I'll do it with LAME. I could tell a BIG difference. ...and that's yet another nice feature about minidisc -- no silly bitrate to set, no worrying if you're squeezing a turnip or wasting space. :) ~~Zach http://start.at/cens In a message dated 12/8/99 6:43:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /|\/|\ Personally, I can't hear the difference between the two, maybe it's only noticeable when you listen to classical music. c't magazine wrote that bladeenc sounds completely crappy at 64 kbps while lame is fairly good, but who encodes at bitrates that low anyway ? /|\/|\ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Help w/ my Sony MDS-JE520
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === If anyody can help Roy please email him...thanks -Trace From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [bootlegMD] Help w/ my Sony MDS-JE520 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:26:27 -0800 (PST) Hi guys! After a long period of use today, my Sony MDS-JE520 says an error message: AD - DA does anyone know what that means? It's under seven months old, under Sony's one-year warranty, but I can't find my receipt (proof of purchase) so I may be screwed into paying for repairs. Roy = Hey! Dig bootlegs? Trade MiniDiscs? Then, join my Internet mailing list: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/bootlegMD ROY endorses microphones from The Sound Professionals: http://www.soundprofessionals.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com text3.html __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Name Full!!!
Rodney Peterson wrote in detail about how he puts a lot of information into track titles. So Rodney, back to the subject: about how many tracks do you commonly get onto a disc before filling the titling space? When the titling space is full or too nearly full to accommodate another long track name, do you leave the rest of the disc's audio capacity empty or do you use it for tracks that don't need detailed titles? I counted about 180 characters in that Jennifer Lopez track - so I'm guessing about 9ish tracks (?) before filling all of the space. I wonder if there's a way to increase titling space by writing onto the music area (kinda the opposite to the trick where you write over titling space to increase capacity). Another question for Rodney: as you clearly need to have such information about the tracks you play, why not use a PDA like a Palm or Psion to keep a database of all this information (and details of which disc the track is on)? It could be kept to hand, and could be fully searchable. Titling all that info onto discs must be a horrendous chore - even when I have access to a deck I only use the most basic titles (and often shorten long words/titles), and I hate doing "various artists" compilations because it's more to do.. Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Name Full!!!
It depends on the disc as to how many songs are used before full name capacity is used. If I have an important song with 200 or so characters needed before the title is complete, I "code" the really comparably horrible songs at the back of the disc with titles like "333B14" (Meaning Hit Disc Series 333, Disc B, Track 14). Usually I'll never play these songs, but if I do, and I can't recall what they are while listening I refer to the Master HitDisc CD Library (over 2,000 HitDiscs so far which are stored in organized numerical order) and look at the information there to dechiper what "333B14" is. If I'm out and the library is not available to me since I store it at home, especially on a DJ gig, there's a 99.99% chance the song isn't worth playing anyway-but once I record a song onto MD, I rarely erase it-if it turns out to be more of a "stiff" than a hit I just move it to the back of the disc, where the "crappy" stuff is usually stored. Of course, there are many exceptions, where every song on the disc is a legitimate hit. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Help w/ my Sony MDS-JE520
Tracy asked, | If anyody can help Roy please email him...thanks -Trace I'm sending this to Roy with a carbon to the list. Roy's question: | After a long period of use today, my Sony MDS-JE520 | says an error message: | | AD - DA | | does anyone know what that means? P. 10 of the fluffy manual knows. Nothing is wrong. It means that the unit is in monitor mode and input is set to analog. In monitor mode on digital input, the display is just "- DA" (or "DIN UNlock" if there's no digital input to monitor). The AD on the left means that analog input is going through the analog-to- digital converter and going to the digital output and [here's what the DA on the right means] through the digital-to-analog converter to the analog outputs (RCA and headphone). Press STOP or insert a disc and you're out of monitor. | It's under seven months old, under Sony's one-year | warranty, but I can't find my receipt (proof of | purchase) so I may be screwed into paying for repairs. It doesn't need repair. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Name Full!!!
A Psion or a Palm simply would not have enough memory. At one time, I had the entire HitDisc library stored on word processor (but name, title and location only.) I think there were about 25 or so 1.44 MB discs fllled before the word processor could take it no more and blew up. I would have to use a laptop with at least 4GB of memory to do the job and it would take forever to input the information again, although I imagine I'll get around to it one of these days. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Name Full!!! [getting a bit OT]
A Psion or a Palm simply would not have enough memory. At one time, I had the entire HitDisc library stored on word processor (but name, title and location only.) I think there were about 25 or so 1.44 MB discs fllled before the word processor could take it no more and blew up. I would have to use a laptop with at least 4GB of memory to do the job and it would take forever to input the information again, although I imagine I'll get around to it one of these days. An idea might be to use one of the new IBM Microdrive discs - they fit in a CompactFlash slot and offer (at the moment) up to 340mb, at reasonable prices (under 1UKP per Mb). They're planning to get up to several gigabytes next year. Might be a technology to keep an eye on - one of the proposed uses is for keeping large databases on hand for sales people, field engineers, etc. http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/micro/ Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Need HELP for UTOC error
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === At 10:00 AM 12/12/1999 -0500, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using a Sharp 701 recording on a Sony MD but I still to be getting a UTOC error when I'm saving the TOC so then when I try to access the disc I can't get into it and all I get is a UTOC error. Does that mean the disc is destroyed or is there a way to fix it? A UTOC error just means the UTOC cannot be read, it could be a problem with the disc or the recorder. Try recording to a new, blank disc to confirm which it is. Rick - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the disc that I'm having a problem with. Is there a way I can fix the disc maybe if I go into test mode? Thanx - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Build you own $100 Mics - Cheap!
brent harding wrote: What's special about these mikes that it's worth using them instead of the cheap mikes you can buy at stores. Why build one? At 05:21 PM 12/12/99 -0500, you wrote: I have some matched PANASONIC mic capsules for sale under MICROPHONES at the MD Classified page. Build your own Mics! Check out "http://www.arches.uga.edu/~tidmarsh/binmic.html" The cheap ones you buy at stores are mono and not stereo. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
