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suppose it was inevitable. nice format, but you still gotta dub things over.... digital recorders were always gonna end it. |
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atrac compression wasn't too bad. not many models had digital out however. digital recorders were gonna end it? you mean like ssd thingies? mini disc was digital y know epicalmegatricks. |
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they were rooted in tapes and CDs where you had to dub it over -- play it from one device for another for however long it was. i know it's digital, there's probably some way to rip/burn them as fast as you would a CD, but most of the portable players didn't have anything like this (as far as i know). i got one with optical; never use the optical. it's a nice little thing. i've used to record gigs, as a backup when the computer is on the fritz, and i've also left it set up for a few months next to the piano with a cheap preamp and a pair of mics for whenever the mood to keysmash hit... ...but at the end of the day, i still had to bounce it back through into the computer. if you use a "digital" recorder (poor choice of words, sorry) you can just plug in USB and copy over a WAV. not being able to do that easily pretty much guaranteed the MD's days were numbered. |
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i see what y mean epics. : ) time consuming. and most consumer units didn’t have optical out. i did a fair few recordings. had to borrow my works expensive MD to get an optical digital out. If you have some nice recordings its worth coming out digital,if you can , saves on two conversions MD> DAC>ADC>PC. freqy : ) |
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Hey epicmegasnax, you should do a mini-disc only release of your unreleased musics. you could do the album art for the disc and you could sell it to your hardcorest fans! it would be a nice exclusive thing for the people who love your music. be sure to only use instruments you made yourself or else you are just going to be a part of the crowd. and you, epicmegasnax, most certainly stand out from the crows so go forth and show them your shining diamond |
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epicmegasnax LOL. |
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TRRS |
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i just checked, mine will only do optical going IN, not going out. honestly, i've never used optical anything, and even if it did output optics, i would not know what to plug it into. i think my living room stereo receiver has this type of connector and from there i could convert it to s/pdif.... i'll figure it out someday. i have a tub of about a hundred of the buggers that need cataloging and ripping. |
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i used a hi-md recorder for years. wonderful format, several hours of listening on a single battery. sadly, the software for uploading/downloading music on it (sonicstage) was a sad piece of fuck, slow and horrible. it's just sad how sony was always good at creating great hardware, completely obliterating it with horrible software or anti-piracy measures. |
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whatever happens is inevitable |
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My grandad went all-out with minidiscs, he has a huge cabinet full of classical shit and old '40s swing recorded from radio. Kinda cool seeing an old geezer embrace new tech, shame it was the wrong one eh |
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"it's a or" ≠ |
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MD -- coolest music format ever. Love that shit. Except I tossed my MD recorder and all MDs a couple years ago. |
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with my minidisc player in it |
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I remember listening to some stuff on MD over at Jonesy's (remember him?) place. MD makes for a pretty good quality cheap field recorder. My other half used to use hers for interviews for radio shows. |
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sweet photo! |
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QUITE SHIT and ok NOT BAD |
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I used a sony hi md to do field recording for a few years. Never once let me down and the on board pre amps were quality for the price. It was so lightweight and small and cheap that I took it everywhere, the only problem was transferring files... |
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rev I: a portable device with a touchscreen. runs android in some future universe where android audio is not like the boston molasses disaster of 1919. quality stereo mics; high fuckin' quality preamps + shit hot A/D. wifi. usb. SD slot. maybe some shit like optical that i don't understand, just to be professional. rev II: make it so you can just hook up a big monitor, keyboard, mouse, and usb controller (wireless, micro-usb, whatever) and get a proper editing rig by plugging some gear into a hotel TV's HDMI rev III: there is no rev III |
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maybe throw in a video camera as the third eye between the stereo pair |
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hi epic's, you may not even need optical depending on your setup. optical is just a way to transmit 0's and 1's between digital devices. light travels along the tube between devices. its easy to connect and it keeps the digital audio info true to the original recording. if you want to send audio info from one device to another, but instead use the analog ins and outs on the devices, you will distort and change the original signal. ( varies on how good the convertors are) converting adds things like noise, change in frequency response, distortion of the wav fille from the conversions and also added latency,crosstalk , interference. but with optical, the 1's and 0's remain the same. eventually a conversion is needed from digital to analog to hear the information through the speakers. but the less conversions during a project the cleaner the output. |
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ummmm..... i understand all that, thanks? i just meant that the little optical cable that came with my MD is a fucking alien device to me and i don't know what to plug the other end into.... understand the theory just fine. |
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lol I <3 you FREQY |
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sorry scoobysnax. thanks listen2-u-talk. freqy x |
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