Re: MD: Making 2 or 4 hours recordings

2001-10-03 Thread Christopher Hicks
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 consumer units). Christopher Hicks

Re: MD: (OT, rant) Michael Jackson

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Hicks
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 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word

Re: MD: Re: Hearing Compression Artifacts

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Hicks
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 minimum of 60 bits/second. Christopher Hicks

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

2001-08-13 Thread Christopher Hicks
this really - it turned a recording he was very pleased with into one he was a bit miffed with. I'm afraid I decided not to buy an MD recorder at all on the basis of hearing this recording. Regards, Christopher Hicks - To stop

RE: MD: Recording MDs with microphones...

2001-08-02 Thread Christopher Hicks
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RE: MD: Recording MDs with microphones...

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Hicks
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 function. Good idea, and one I have used too! Christopher Hicks

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

2001-06-27 Thread Christopher Hicks
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
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 Hicks == Dr Christopher Hicks, Senior

MD: Portable MD recorder for pro-ish use

2001-06-05 Thread Christopher Hicks
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]