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I don't know about soundforge's batch process
Christopher Hicks wrote:
Curiously, I am currently contemplating designing a small digital mixer for
location recording (not specifically to MD, but entirely usable with
...
My project essentially comprises 8 XLR mic-line inputs, each with
switchable gain and phantom power. The resulting
Len Moskowitz wrote:
We have two short files that compare our mics to the Sony ECM-MS957 and
the AT-822/825. I'd be happy to send them on request.
It would sure be nice if you could put all of your mic examples on your
website, either uncompressed WAV's or SHN's or as a last resort even
Besides which, if you're using a SBLive, it does a sample rate
conversion on EVERY SIGNAL to 48 kHz (even if the digital signal is
already at 48 kHz) to be put through its DSP, and if you're recording a
44.1 kHz signal, it does a sample rate conversion back to 44.1, so you
won't get an exact
las wrote:
At $300.00 you really, really, really have to be into listening with earbuds big
time! You can buy a pair of Sony Glasstron TV glasses on eBay for that kind of
money. The ear buds included with the glasstron are on the big side, but have
decent sound and you get to view video
Dan Frakes wrote:
Steve: the issues with the ER-4S needing an amp isn't whether or not they'll
play *loud* enough; rather, it's whether or not they'll play *well* enough
;) The ER4S are simply designed to be used with a powerful headphone amp.
If you were to buy a good amp and then use
I just got a set of Etymotic ER-4S earphones, and I am astounded at the
sound. They are incredible. Some people have said that the 4S's lack
bass and require a headphone amp, but I'm using them with my Sony MZR-90
and they are loud enough for me with excellent bass, and that's not even
with
Here's a MDLP faq:
http://www.minidisc.org/mdlpfaq.html
I downloaded the codec from that page and did some tests by encoding a
WAV file at various ATRAC bitrates. I find the LP2 bitrate to be quite
acceptable, and the LP4 bitrate to be unacceptable for music with a wide
stereo field, but
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Put your CD player on Repeat All tracks (if it
Taky Cheung wrote:
all. Then I encode them in MP3 (using CoolEdit 2000. it works fast! it encodes
a 5 minutes song in 18 seconds). Then I rearrange all my songs and record back
Wow, that is fast. What speed is your computer, and what quality
setting did you use? I have a PIII 666 and
I am firmly convinced that when I upgrade my computer, I'm going to get
an AMD processor. I'm utterly sick of Intel's crap.
As for specifying mp3 quality in CoolEdit 2000:
In the save dialog you choose "MPEG 3 (FhG) (*.mp3)" in the "Save as
type" drop down box. (But you already knew that,
"J. Coon" wrote:
Steve Corey wrote:
until the last possible moment (74:59) pop out the disc, and shove
There isn't any way that I know of to get the disc out without writing
the toc, except taking out the battery or putting it in service mode.
Neither will do you any good.
O
"J. Coon" wrote:
PARAMOUNT TO EVERYTHING ALWAYS PRESS "END SEARCH" BEFORE YOU RECORD
ANYTHING.
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I don't know why Sony
was so FOOLISH as to set up their portable recorders that way. Someone
at Sony should be taken out and shot... or at least severely
chastised.
There is
Mike Hooker wrote:
i appeal to the great body of knowledge on this list. does anyone know
how to save streaming video to a hard drive??
Could this be what you're looking for?
http://www.camtasia.com/
or maybe this?
http://www.hyperionics.com/index.html
Personally, I like the second
KVE wrote:
I don't think that is that important. I tried the card on 4 different
computers and got the same bad results: P-120, P-166, P2-200 (Compaq
DeskPro 4000), P3-550. My friend (P-166) had exactly the same input
problems (minus the initial noise) and now he uses it only for output.
KVE wrote:
I have found a lot of problems with Nightingale. One is the fact that
it doesn't do any reclocking of its own and lacks the coax in. That
means that if you are using a cheap optical cable you are bound to get
the timing problems. I was using one of the older Sony cables and
Javier Marcet wrote:
do you know what the cheapest sound card allowing to make bit for
bit digital transfers could be (at least at 16 bit, 44.1KHz)? An
absolute requirement is working under Windows 2000 (Linux would be a
plus).
The Zoltrix Nightingale with Optical Upgrade Kit
Javier Marcet wrote:
do you know what the cheapest sound card allowing to make bit for
bit digital transfers could be (at least at 16 bit, 44.1KHz)? An
absolute requirement is working under Windows 2000 (Linux would be a
plus).
SC The Zoltrix Nightingale with Optical
Taky Cheung wrote:
Just would like to ask anybody on the list how do they record MP3 to MD thru
digital optical cable? Do they use WinAMP or any better playlist control
program? Does track mark recorded probably? Do they have to add a couple of
seconds silence in order to have the
John Small wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:40:22 -0800, "Don Capps" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're telling me that compressing the file twice doesn't effect the audio
quality? Not sure I'm getting you here.
The claim has been made that you can record a CD to MD, then re-record MD to MD
las wrote:
In my humble opinion, if you can make electronics that can keep the distortion
as low (unfortunately this becomes very hard with analog tubes, tape, vinyl,
etc.), the frequency response as wide, the signal to noise ratio as good and the
dynamic range as wide, analog would sound
las wrote:
Taking all of this into account, film still kills video. And film is
analog. I can pick out any TV show that is shot in video vs film. There
is a new TV show that is shot in HD video. At times it looks almost as
good as film. But then the video looks sometimes creeps in.
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
Steve Corey wrote,
| I only object when someone says that MD is high quality recording, when it
| is middle quality recording.
That's a subjective call, based on what scale one uses and where one draws
the demarcations. MD is not maximum quali
"Francisco J. Huerta" wrote:
I beg to differ. The format is called MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) and it
is distributed by Dolby Labs. It can compress any PCM file, and yes, it is
supposed to be used in DVD-A.
5:1 lossless compression doesn't exist, at least not yet.
I looked up
"Churchill, Guy" wrote:
If you can't ever hear tell the difference, does it matter? I
I submit that it does matter, for the reasons I mentioned in my previous
post that future technology will enable the ability to vastly improve
current recordings. It's like the Caruso restorations. They
James Jarvie wrote:
For that matter it may be
possible to restore the complete sound of Bach
playing the organ. But
why make it more difficult that it has to be.
I somehow suspect that there are not alot of
recordings extant of dear Johann playing the organ.
More's the pity.
Of
"Francisco J. Huerta" wrote:
With all due respect, don't you think this paragraph has discredited your
entire post? Wouldn't it be easier to bring back Bach from the dead?
Having done neither, I don't know which one would be easier. But I did
say that it was "pure sci-fi" the "fi"
First off, I absolutely love my MZ-R90. Now onto rant mode:
"J. Coon" wrote:
No, I haven't listened to it at all. It is just that when I record
Sounds like one of those "infidels look down on MD as inferior because
it uses ATRAC" as you put it in another post. You're doing the same
For about $40 total, the Zoltrix Nightingale with the optical upgrade
board will give you coaxial spdif in and out. It's a PCI card.
In order to get the coaxial input, you have to make a coaxial connector
that you can add onto some jumpers on the optical board. It's simple,
and if you screw
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
Scale factor edit is not the only way. Many recorders do allow setting gain
on digital input. However, I've never heard of any that have automatic gain
control for it, only for analog input. Because I have many CDs that are
mastered too softly, I find digital gain
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
the problem which I described as "mastered too softly" is not that the soft
passages are soft -- they're supposed to be, after all -- but that the loud-
est ones are too soft. My trouble is tracks where the peak is at -6 to -4
But even the loudest part of a track
In the absence of any other solution, I suppose you could get a MD
recorder that has a "synchro-start" feature-- It won't record until it
receives a digital signal. Then hook it up to your computer with a
digital output, and use the various timer functions on your computer to
start
Digital transfers are ALWAYS better. If a certain digital format
doesn't work for you (the DIO2448 to MDS-PC2 for example) find another
way to do it.
As for these points:
The advantages of analog are:
1) it *always* works
2) easy level adjustments
I would say, that analog *always* works,
Matthew Wall wrote:
computer so i was looking at mb ideas, i ran across gigabyte's GA-6VXD7, =
a dual socket 370 mb, well anyway when ordered it, they didn't say =
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good) anyway when i got to the audio portion i was very very very happy =
to learn that it has a MD optical out on it very
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