RE: MD: Cheap Minidiscs in the UK?
Just bought my first deck yesterday, and now I need some disks. So can anyone in the UK point me in the direction of the cheapest place to buy, mail order or otherwise? Thanks, Nick. I would recommend Richer Sounds. TDK discs are £1 a piece, with Hi-space about 80p each. S. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Wanted: Transport mechanism for a MDS-JE510
Hi everyone, Does anyone have a broken JE510 MD Deck that I could purchase the transport mechanism from (obviously I'd prefer the fault not to be with the transport!)? The recording head on mine got mangled and it seems to have stopped the whole thing working. Can anyone help? I am based in the UK but given the (relatively) small weight of the mechanism I would be willing to pay the postage for an overseas item. Yours in anticipation, Mathew - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: recording audio to video tapes
Is there any devices out that will allow recording of audio only signals to videotape? I remember hearing on the datheads faq about PCM decks that took the analog output of an audio device, converted it to digital, and then making it in to a video signal a VCR could record. I like the idea because it would allow 6 hours of audio on a single tape, but I'm doubtful that many VCR's would have track marking features to bookmark favorite spots in the tape. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: recording audio to video tapes
There my be some pro decks still out there, but why would you want to do it? You would still only have analog recordings. At best the PCM tape would sound about as good as the original analog. High quality MP3 recordings would probably give you better quality sound, if the original files were digitally recorded. On a 700 MB CDR you could record approximately 200 to 250 songs (depending upon the length of each song-obviously Patti Smith's Land/Horses is going to take more than 3 times the space of Del Shannon's Run Away :) ). If each song were an average of 3 MB you'd be able to get about 230 songs on the disk. And if each song averaged 3 minutes, that would be 11 and a half hours of music. OK, lets say my calculations were off and you could only get 10 hours on a CD (700 MB). That would be 10 hours of compressed, BUT digital recordings made from digital originals. You can purchase a CD Writer for as low as $100 (although I'd suggest going a little higher and getting a faster unit-say $150.00). A portable CD/MP3 player can be purchased for about $99. And you can even get an Apex DVD player (their basic model with no digital or component video out) which plays MP3s for $99. You can even get a car unit that plays MP3 CDs (although, I'd wait for the price to drop). You can convert any music CDs you have to MP3 files on the fly and either record them to HD and then to CD (I'd suggest taking this extra step) or even directly to CD). Although Napster is in a coma, it hasn't seemed to have affected Musiccity.com's Morpheus. I'm also fairly certain that legal downloads of most music will soon be available for a small fee (Morpheus is free and currently has about 350,000 songs available at any given time). Of course if I misunderstood your original question and you have songs recorded on analog media (vinyl, cassettes, etc.) that you need to transfer, your best bet, IMHO, would be to record them on to MDs. From there if you wanted you could copy them to your computer. LAS Brent Harding wrote: Is there any devices out that will allow recording of audio only signals to videotape? I remember hearing on the datheads faq about PCM decks that took the analog output of an audio device, converted it to digital, and then making it in to a video signal a VCR could record. I like the idea because it would allow 6 hours of audio on a single tape, but I'm doubtful that many VCR's would have track marking features to bookmark favorite spots in the tape. - 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: Recording MDs with microphones...
On the subject of building your own mixing system for MD, what do you find lacking in commercially available mixers that would prompt you want to build your own? I can see that battery power and small size could be requirements not met by many mixers. Also, why add the A/D? Are MD's converters lacking? (Or is it that the digital out is an advantage if it results in the automatic level control being bypassed.) What other features for MD would you look for in a mixer design? |-Original Message- |From: Timothy Stockman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 1:22 PM |Subject: MD: Recording MDs with microphones... | | SNIP | |I've had the ambitious thought of building up my own mixing |system, consisting of OPA2604 |amplifiers and LM1973s for electronic level control and panning, |using some sort of CPU to |control it all and maybe even an A/D chip so I can feed digital to the MD. | |Has anyone else on the list though about something like this? | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: recording audio to video tapes
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === What I actually want is to record shows off the radio without having to change media. Figured that if a videotape can hold 6 hours, then I could get the show on without doing much more than turning the radio and recording on with power timers. iT takes forever to convert a huge wave file in to an mp3, last time I did it, it took not much less than real time recording. I suppose my disk just isn't fast enough. At 01:45 PM 7/27/01 -0400, you wrote: There my be some pro decks still out there, but why would you want to do it? You would still only have analog recordings. At best the PCM tape would sound about as good as the original analog. High quality MP3 recordings would probably give you better quality sound, if the original files were digitally recorded. On a 700 MB CDR you could record approximately 200 to 250 songs (depending upon the length of each song-obviously Patti Smith's Land/Horses is going to take more than 3 times the space of Del Shannon's Run Away :) ). If each song were an average of 3 MB you'd be able to get about 230 songs on the disk. And if each song averaged 3 minutes, that would be 11 and a half hours of music. OK, lets say my calculations were off and you could only get 10 hours on a CD (700 MB). That would be 10 hours of compressed, BUT digital recordings made from digital originals. You can purchase a CD Writer for as low as $100 (although I'd suggest going a little higher and getting a faster unit-say $150.00). A portable CD/MP3 player can be purchased for about $99. And you can even get an Apex DVD player (their basic model with no digital or component video out) which plays MP3s for $99. You can even get a car unit that plays MP3 CDs (although, I'd wait for the price to drop). You can convert any music CDs you have to MP3 files on the fly and either record them to HD and then to CD (I'd suggest taking this extra step) or even directly to CD). Although Napster is in a coma, it hasn't seemed to have affected Musiccity.com's Morpheus. I'm also fairly certain that legal downloads of most music will soon be available for a small fee (Morpheus is free and currently has about 350,000 songs available at any given time). Of course if I misunderstood your original question and you have songs recorded on analog media (vinyl, cassettes, etc.) that you need to transfer, your best bet, IMHO, would be to record them on to MDs. From there if you wanted you could copy them to your computer. LAS Brent Harding wrote: Is there any devices out that will allow recording of audio only signals to videotape? I remember hearing on the datheads faq about PCM decks that took the analog output of an audio device, converted it to digital, and then making it in to a video signal a VCR could record. I like the idea because it would allow 6 hours of audio on a single tape, but I'm doubtful that many VCR's would have track marking features to bookmark favorite spots in the tape. - 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] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Mic Holders
I just got a Singlepoint Cardioid Premium T Mic from Sound Professionals via Minidisco and its great. I just have one question, HOW DO I BRING IT AROUND? Anybody know of any good cases I can buy that would fit it without hurting it? Or special cases just for that one? Thanks! - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Computer Editors
After I record any upload the huge wav file onto my computer from my minidisc recorder, anybody have any ideas on what program to use to split into tracks and edit the recording for distribution onto full sized cds? I'm using Cakewalk Homestudio and Sound Forge XP. They're not so good. If anybody knows of any good progs PLEASE tell me, I'm rather desperate. Thanks! - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Computer Editors
Jinx asked, | After I record any upload the huge wav file onto my computer from my | minidisc recorder, anybody have any ideas on what program to use to split | into tracks and edit the recording for distribution onto full sized cds? | I'm using Cakewalk Homestudio and Sound Forge XP. They're not so good. | If anybody knows of any good progs PLEASE tell me, I'm rather desperate. CDWav at cdwave.com (yes, `e' on the name of the domain, no `e' on the name of the program) is designed primarily for breaking long .wav files into chunks that are multiples of the size of a CD frame so that they can be burned to CDR without the problems some burners have with incomplete frames. The current version is shareware, but I understand there's an old version on another site available for free. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: recording audio to video tapes
BEGIN QUOTE=== What I actually want is to record shows off the radio without having to change media. Figured that if a videotape can hold 6 hours, then I could get the show on without doing much more than turning the radio and recording on with power timers. END QUOTE Most HiFi VCRs do support this form of recording. This can be done by selecting LINE-IN on the VCR and hooking up a radio tuner to the audio inputs. You don't hook anything up to the video inputs. Newer machines treat the line inputs as though they are TV channels - you select the input by using the channel selector buttons with the unit showing AV on the channel display. In Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other countries that use the PAL system, some HiFi VCRs offer Audio LP mode where the units will record only sound in the LP mode. If you are wanting the show recorded under timer control, you would use the VCR's own timer to start the recording at the radio show's time. On newer machines, you select the audio inputs by setting the recording channel parameter to the line-level inputs associated with the radio tuner. For older units, you set the machine to LINE-IN mode and set the timer to record any TV channel -- the unit records off the radio tuner connected to the audio inputs. In all cases, avoid setting the machine to SIMULCAST mode, which records the video from the built-in TV tuner and the audio from an external device. The only device that you need a power timer for is the radio tuner, and try to use one that uses a quartz-controlled digital clock, rather than an electro-mechanical cam setup. Also remember that if you live in the PAL countries (Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc), you can buy the E-300 (5 hours in SP mode) blank tapes and when used with LP mode, you can record 10 hours of radio programming. With regards, Simon Mackay - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
