Re: MD: Mics
Sure, the mike doesn't care. Just make a battery box, plug them mike into a jack on one end, put a cord and plug on the other end and plug it into the line input. The mike doesn't care where the power comes from. This way youcan use it with or with out the battery box and use the plug in power. Hang on. So if you use the battery-box with the mic. for outdoor recordings, does this mean that the mic. uses the box's power instead of the MD's power? Edd - who's probably feeling a little bit dense at present - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
Not sure it's so much of a wish, it *could* be made possible. I have a Denon tuner which has RDS and Radio-Text. You can set it to re-tune to the news broadcasts and traffic information, and you can also search for specific styles of music, skipping other radio stations. One of the things that happens when commercials are broadcast is that the text display changes to [Commercial] and all the indicator on the display that tells you the broadcast genre switches off. It would surely be possible to latch onto this information and have an MD pause during those periods, resulting in no commercials being recorded. My Sony tuner came with an EON-Link cable to connect it to an amp for source switching (if you want it, back to tuner when a traffic/news broadcast comes on) in a similar way to car radios. An EON-Link port on an MD deck could probably do something like you describe. Magic -- Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
Matt wrote, | Not sure it's so much of a wish, it *could* be made possible. I have a Denon | tuner which has RDS and Radio-Text. ... One of the things that | happens when commercials are broadcast is that the text display changes to | [Commercial] and all the indicator on the display that tells you the | broadcast genre switches off. It would surely be possible to latch onto this | information and have an MD pause during those periods, resulting in no | commercials being recorded. It sounds as though, rather than modifying an MD recorder, it might be more practical to design an intermediate device that would suppress the signal during seleted genre values, and to leave the MD recorder on synchro. Then each stretch of undesired data -- such as a commercial break -- would show up on the recording as just two or three seconds of silence. Lacking the engineering skills and any access to broadcasts with Radio-Text or RDS, I'll leave the experimentation to someone else. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MiniDisco MD Blanks Review
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RE: MD: Mics
Yes, the mike uses the box power, and since it is more voltage than is available from the recorder, you get a better signal from the mike and can use the line in. -- Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Edd Farmer Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 7:32 AM To: Minidisc mail-list Subject: Re: MD: Mics Sure, the mike doesn't care. Just make a battery box, plug them mike into a jack on one end, put a cord and plug on the other end and plug it into the line input. The mike doesn't care where the power comes from. This way youcan use it with or with out the battery box and use the plug in power. Hang on. So if you use the battery-box with the mic. for outdoor recordings, does this mean that the mic. uses the box's power instead of the MD's power? Edd - who's probably feeling a little bit dense at present - 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: Need to find MD unit that allows overwrite recording
You would be a lot better off recording the two parts separately, transferring them digitally to a computer and combining them there with a good multi track audio editor. I use Cakewalk Pro Audio, but there are other less expensive options (I think Cool Edit Pro is multi track and so is n-Track studio http://fasoft.com/ which is shareware and very inexpensive). That way you can edit the sounds and mix them properly. Then just output them to stereo and record that on a new minidisc. -- Martin -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope you can help me. What I am looking for is a sony walkman recordable minidisc that can blend tracks together. i.e. I want to record one song over another (also film dialogue) without losing the background sound. Is there such a model that can do this? I am going to singapore in a week and want to get one there so a quick response would be very appreciated. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD's Future
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === If they do or do not read this mailing list, i dont think that is as much the point as that sony right now really is not pushing MD. Personally i think that if they wanted to really push it, the next time they know they are going to have an album release, they should only release it on MD for the first 6 or so months, that would definately push a lot of people into the MD scene that were not there before. But i doubt that Sony has the guts to try something like this as the allmight dollar is far more important to them than doing anything half way logical :P just an opinion Matt Hi James, James Jarvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: them. Sony is not reading this list. You are certainly entitled to your opinions about Sony, but please be careful when you state things as fact. To say that "Sony" does or does not read something is difficult in any case, since there are thousands of Sony employees. But I can say at least that several Sony MiniDisc staffers read MD-L, some who are even in a position to make equipment design changes. Anyway, why not address the problem constructively: what changes does Sony need to make? Rick - 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: AM-F70 Mic Power
Does the Aiwa AM-F70 provide mic power? Grover - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Sharp 832
Well, it seems that nobody knows the answer to my previous question. Drat. Here's a slightly more general question. Has anybody actually used a Sharp 832 (not 831) and used the Kanji remote? :) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I plan to do things mostly unattended, things I want to listen to are on when I'm not available. If you found where the tone was to detect it's frequency, wouldn't you be able to set the md so that when that comes up in the program to start operating the pause button? Often, there's a slight pause where national commercials end, and local ones begin, but you'd still have some commercials, but 10 minutes worth during the breaks sometimes can be a lot, andd these shows are seeral hours long. At 09:41 AM 1/29/00 -0600, you wrote: Brent asked, | How then, do they know to take a commercial break if there's nobody at the | station to cut in the local commercials? If there's a beep or something, | audible or not, wouldn't it get recorded too? Yes, and so will the commercials. The idea of an MD that can skip commer- cials while it records from radio was just an earlier poster's wish; it is not an actuality. Unattended MD recording does not have a way to pause automatically during commercials. You'll record the commercials along with the rest of the show unless you're listening while you record and you can operate the pause but- ton. You can edit the commercials out later and reuse most of the space they took up. In personal experience, even if I am next to the machine and can operate the pause button, I get better results by letting it record everything and edit- ing out the commercials later, than by trying to remain attentive and vigi- lant both for pausing when the commercial breaks start and, more importantly, for unpausing when the show itself resumes. However, I'm under a lot of pressure in my personal life and suffer chronic sleep deprivation, so it's difficult for me to relax in a chair, no matter how interested I am in the book I'm reading or the music I'm listening to, without drifting off. If you're better at remaining alert than I am, perhaps you can get good results by operating the pause button yourself while you listen. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brent Harding Watch ads for over $20 per hour! Visit this site to join ad vision! http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10160429 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
Brent followed up, | I plan to do things mostly unattended, things I want to listen to are on | when I'm not available. If you found where the tone was to detect it's | frequency, wouldn't you be able to set the md so that when that comes up in | the program to start operating the pause button? Not with any MD recorder available for sale today. Many can pause when silences last longer than a couple seconds and unpause when sound resumes, but I'd be really surprised if any could react to certain tones. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === where do they sell such a device that does this? At 10:55 AM 1/29/00 -0600, you wrote: Matt wrote, | Not sure it's so much of a wish, it *could* be made possible. I have a Denon | tuner which has RDS and Radio-Text. ... One of the things that | happens when commercials are broadcast is that the text display changes to | [Commercial] and all the indicator on the display that tells you the | broadcast genre switches off. It would surely be possible to latch onto this | information and have an MD pause during those periods, resulting in no | commercials being recorded. It sounds as though, rather than modifying an MD recorder, it might be more practical to design an intermediate device that would suppress the signal during seleted genre values, and to leave the MD recorder on synchro. Then each stretch of undesired data -- such as a commercial break -- would show up on the recording as just two or three seconds of silence. Lacking the engineering skills and any access to broadcasts with Radio-Text or RDS, I'll leave the experimentation to someone else. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brent Harding Watch ads for over $20 per hour! Visit this site to join ad vision! http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10160429 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === So, when they are retransmitting the signals off of satellite, or wherever they get them, they use this feature to cut out the commercials and put there own in? Why do they use radio text on the radio anyways when the majority of radios don't display it? So, you'd hook this tuner up to your md, and use it's settings to cause the md to pause and the like? Thinking of using md to help do a netcast some day wonce I get it, this tuner could maybe do what I want.At 03:50 PM 1/29/00 -, you wrote: From: David W. Tamkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:41 PM Subject: Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530 Brent asked, | How then, do they know to take a commercial break if there's nobody at the | station to cut in the local commercials? If there's a beep or something, | audible or not, wouldn't it get recorded too? Yes, and so will the commercials. The idea of an MD that can skip commer- cials while it records from radio was just an earlier poster's wish; it is not an actuality. Not sure it's so much of a wish, it *could* be made possible. I have a Denon tuner which has RDS and Radio-Text. You can set it to re-tune to the news broadcasts and traffic information, and you can also search for specific styles of music, skipping other radio stations. One of the things that happens when commercials are broadcast is that the text display changes to [Commercial] and all the indicator on the display that tells you the broadcast genre switches off. It would surely be possible to latch onto this information and have an MD pause during those periods, resulting in no commercials being recorded. I don't record from commercial radio much myself, but I do find it easier to edit afterwards simply by splitting the tracks up and erasing the commercials - I'm not quick enough on the pause button either! :o) Magic -- "Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration." Location : Portsmouth, England, UK Homepage : http://www.mattnet.freeserve.co.uk EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brent Harding Watch ads for over $20 per hour! Visit this site to join ad vision! http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10160429 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: CDROM - stable S/PDIF
A question and an observation... Can anyone recomend (or point me to) which CDROMs have an S/PDIF output that is stable during pause, seek, etc. I think that stable S/PDIF is necessary regardless of whether the CDROM is connected to an MD recorder or a sound card. The S/PDIF receiver chip (the most popular are Crystal CS8412 CS8414) has a PLL to extract the clock signal, which requires a finite amount of lock time. It *does not* lock on the first frame! That said, I have to give poor marks to the S/PDIF inputs on the Sony MDS-PC2. They are unable to lock to the S/PDIF from an M Audio DIO2448 and they MDS-PC2 requires longer than it should to lock to to CDROM's S/PDIF after it glitches. This may have to do with the fact that it tries to lay down (multiple) track marks when the S/PDIF lock is shaky. (M Audio tech support did finally get back to me, stating that Sony products were known to have problems sometimes with accepting S/PDIF from non-Sony.) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
