Re: MD: Pioneer MD decks
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I faintly remember that Sony protested over the ASRAC name, so Pioneer now calls it ARTIST-SYSTEM (Advanced Real-Time Signal Tuning) in Japan. This is totally unconfirmed, though. The Japanese message board users all like this system, but hey, they also believe in blank MDs making a difference in sound. I've been using only the XA-PRO for a while, but I won't comment... I don't want to be beheaded :) Leon I am shopping around for an MD deck for my home system and have stumbled upon the Pioneer units. What makes these interesting is a feature called Advanced Parameter Processing (APP). Here is a link to information on it incase anyone is interested. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/features/9907-AdvancedParameterProcessing1. asp I think this is what Pioneer used to call "ASRAC" which, they said, was "Fully Compatible with ATRAC!", so um, why change the name then? My guess is that calling it ASRAC was so confusing they dropped the special name and now call it Advanced Parameter Processing. My question is, has anyone used a Pioneer unit with this feature, and if so, did you notice any quality differences compared to MD units from other manufactures? This is the $64K question. From the description, it looks like a good idea. There's only one glaring ommission: some kind of test results indicating that listeners actually thought it sounded better. Without that, it's impossible to know if they made any meaningful improvements. It would seem to indicate however that they've managed to do (or have requested) some independent development of ATRAC. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?
Hi all! My wife's a music teacher and needs a portable (not personal) MD system to be able to replay CDs and MD to classes and individuals - so far, so good. But she also needs to be able to make reasonable quality, stereo recordings of her pupils' performances. We can't find a boombox or mini/micro system (if the latter, we would have to be able to strap it together to move it from room to room) on sale in UK with this facility. One answer would be a MD-compatible system with a separate portable, but this would be more vulnerable to being "lifted", possibly more expensive and less convenient. Can anyone advise on a suitable system or have I missed something (eg can one record via a mic into the line input? If so, what sort of mic?). It does seem dumb to me that with MD so brilliant for live recording so few units (other than portables) have stereo mic inputs! Thanks and regards, John Rolt. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?
All the portables have stereo microphone inputs but the majority of mics are powered with low voltage. The consequence is that if you plug them to the mic input, you will have to raise the recording volume and, in that case, you will have a backgroung noise (caused by the mic input). So, you'd better use mics with a battery box that allows mics to be plugged to line input (less, less noisy). For more details, go at www.soundprofessionnals.com . [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Hi all! My wife's a music teacher and needs a portable (not personal) MD system to be able to replay CDs and MD to classes and individuals - so far, so good. But she also needs to be able to make reasonable quality, stereo recordings of her pupils' performances. We can't find a boombox or mini/micro system (if the latter, we would have to be able to strap it together to move it from room to room) on sale in UK with this facility. One answer would be a MD-compatible system with a separate portable, but this would be more vulnerable to being "lifted", possibly more expensive and less convenient. Can anyone advise on a suitable system or have I missed something (eg can one record via a mic into the line input? If so, what sort of mic?). It does seem dumb to me that with MD so brilliant for live recording so few units (other than portables) have stereo mic inputs! Thanks and regards, John Rolt. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. - 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: OT again: Purchasing Digi Cameras
Michael Burger wrote: Very nice camera...I have one, myself...but if you just recently bought it for that price (ie, in the last month or so), you paid too much. Unfortunately, I paid $299 for the same camera a year ago. On Sun, 21 May 2000 21:09:46 -0400, J. Coon wrote: I bought the Olympus D-340R for $288 us at the local Wall-Mart I got it about 4 months ago. It came with an 8 megabyte memory card, rechargable batteries and a charger. Most other places were selling them for $299 plus shipping, so I think I got a pretty good deal. I think it originally sold witha 4 meg card and with out the rechargable batteries. -- 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: portable MD with mic recording?
If you use a boom box system, you would have to use a preamp to bring the mike level up to the "line-in" level. It works on the home deck units, the boom box would have to have a Line-in input for that to work. My guess is that a preamp and boom box would be a little less prone to being lifted because they are bigger. The separate recorder is a lot handier for recordeing though. If it were me, I would go with the portable recorder. You can get a deck or md boom box to play it back or if youwnat to save a little money you can just use a tape cassette boom box and one of those cassette tape adaptors to play the MD through the boom box. I do it all the time and also use it in the car the same way. For a mike, the one Idesigned works well, and if you are a little bit handy, or can find someone that is, you can make a stereo mike for about $10 US, or somewhere around 2 to 3 quid. I think someone said Maplins carries the mike elements. here are the instructions http://www.tir.com/~liteways/Mandolin.html#Microphone This mike is powered from the portable MD unit, so it won't work with the preamp and deck/boom box combination. The mike has a very good output and the MD units have a wide dynamic range. As such you don't need a battery box to record solo or unamplified music. If you are trying to record loud rock concerts, the battery box with a bass roll off filter, will drop the level to where it can be recorder. Since I just record band practices, jam sessions and amplified acoustic music, I haven't bothered with building a battery box and haven't needed it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! My wife's a music teacher and needs a portable (not personal) MD system to be able to replay CDs and MD to classes and individuals - so far, so good. But she also needs to be able to make reasonable quality, stereo recordings of her pupils' performances. We can't find a boombox or mini/micro system -- 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: portable MD with mic recording?
Jeanmougin wrote: All the portables have stereo microphone inputs but the majority of mics are powered with low voltage. The consequence is that if you plug them to the mic input, you will have to raise the recording volume and, in that case, you will have a backgroung noise (caused by the mic input). I have never run into trouble with background noise from the mike input of a minidisc recorder. The only extraneous noise I have ever picked up using my plug in mike http://www.tir.com/~liteways/Mandolin.html#Microphone has been when I recorded extremely quiet conversations, or tried to record the sounds of nature. Only in these quiet setting, did I have to turn the record level up high enough that I could hear a quiet tick sound every few seconds that sounded like a clock ticking only much slower. It turned out that the sound is the sound of a portable recorder's motor starting and stopping the disc as it records. It is very rare that you have to turn the level up that high, certainly you would not hear that recording someone playing music, even on a flute or soprano recorder. So, you'd better use mics with a battery box that allows mics to be plugged to line input (less, less noisy). For more details, go at www.soundprofessionnals.com . Those are good folk at Sound Professionals and I recommend them. However, you will only need the battery box if you are trying to record loud bands or rock concerts. -- 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: OT again: Purchasing Digi Cameras
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Well, with the charger and rechargeable battery, it's not so bad a deal. Mine came with an 8MB card, as well...then I also bought a 16 to go along with it. On Mon, 22 May 2000, J. Coon wrote: Michael Burger wrote: Very nice camera...I have one, myself...but if you just recently bought it for that price (ie, in the last month or so), you paid too much. Unfortunately, I paid $299 for the same camera a year ago. I got it about 4 months ago. It came with an 8 megabyte memory card, rechargable batteries and a charger. Most other places were selling them for $299 plus shipping, so I think I got a pretty good deal. I think it originally sold witha 4 meg card and with out the rechargable batteries. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Cardioid mics
When you have mics with clips, where do u put them? On your shoulders (not very stealth)? Or near of your collar? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Yamaha PET no works with Macs
Hi all, The Yamaha RP-U100 apparently is now Mac-compatible. The company's web page http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/newprods/PChometheater/pchtinfo.htm has been changed to add this statement: The Yamaha @ PET RP-U100 is USB compatible with Windows 98 installed PCs and Apple Macintosh computers with System 9.0.2. Take care, Dale - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Recording MD to CD-Rom
You might try saving them as a Quicktime Movie (one of the other Ultra Sound options) and then trying the conversion. Better yet, though, you can use SoundJam Plus to do the initial recording off of your MD (it accepts sound in from analog sources, such as what you're doing). This way, everything will stay within a single application--after recording, it will convert what it recorded into an mp3. This might clear up any problems with getting Toast to recognize what it's looking for. A CD player in and of itself does not have the ability to read an mp3 file. It is not designed for that. Where would it get the software knowledge it needs to do that? A CD-ROM player might could, if you also encoded the CD with the software necessary for reading the mp3 files. (It would work if the mp3-reading software were already on your computer, and you played the files via your computer...but I presume that you want this music to be portable). But there are better solutions: go to http://www.mp3.com and click on Hardware, then look for blurbs on some recent additions to the techno side---CD-type players that specifically are designed to play mp3 files. The knowledge needed to do this is buit in to the circuitry of the player, so you just pop your mp3-laden CD into it, and it plays them. Estimates are you could put 10 hours of mp3 music on a single CD. SoundJam Plus is about $30 from Casady and Greene http://www.casadyg.com Richard Huggins From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MD: Recording MD to CD-Rom I have uploaded from my MD - anolog out and anolog in to my computer. Using a Ultra Recorder 2.4 software, I saved these as a standard AIFF files. I dropped the files onto Adaptec Toast 3.5.5, set to Audio CD. (When I recorded them as Window Wav, Toast said it would not record them in Audio CD format.) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MZR90 Cheapest place in UK?
Where is the cheapest place I can buy an MZR90 in the UK/London? Julian - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: praise for kheops
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === I know we are quick to let people know when we get=20 poor service so I though I would let everyone know that I am very pleased with the service on the disks I ordered from Kheops Minidisc. I ordered my disks last Thursday evening and I received them today (Monday) via the standard USPS shipping. I was the guy who started the last thread complaining about the high minimum shipping costs at other dealers, so I=20 think Pierre deserves some acknowledgement for keeping his shipping costs low enough that you don't have to order 50 disks to make up the difference. I hope kheops can continue to offer excellent prices and service, so I have a good place to get stuff in the future. Regards,=20 David Sowa === MIME part removed : text/html; === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: OT again: Purchasing Digi Cameras
Mike Burger wrote: Well, with the charger and rechargeable battery, it's not so bad a deal. Mine came with an 8MB card, as well...then I also bought a 16 to go along with it. I see Buy.com has 16 MB Smartmedia for $28/89 US right now, and 32 MB for $63.95. They did have 8 MB cards for $12.95. -- 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]
