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hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-09-24 23:02 [#00035970]



with a minidisk recorder thingy, can i hook it up to my
mixer and record my music? if not, does anyone know of any
good audio to digital/ digital to audio converters?


 

hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-09-24 23:07 [#00035977]



what are you going to use to record your music with reflex?
right now i want to find something allowing me to put my
music on the internet so i can distribute it, get feedback,
set up a site and what not. i'd like to make a submission
the the next community vibes album, but i have no way of
putting my music on the computer.


 

Afterthought from Chicago on 2001-09-24 23:11 [#00035979]



just get a cheap sound card... minidisk recorders sound
pretty shitty because they compress the audio data so
much... and this is before you convert to mp3, which
compresses it even more... which means you lose some high
and low frequencies...which means it starts to sound like
garbage...


 

hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-09-24 23:14 [#00035980]



you have given an idea: music that sounds like garbage. oh
wait. that's what mtv and the radio have done. maybe i will
be like merzbow, but rather than process sounds at high
frequencies, i will have boring sounds processed at shit
frequencies after top and bottom ones have been lost and
compressed through conversions.


 

Afterthought from Chicago on 2001-09-24 23:17 [#00035981]



or you could do that, and make really dancy shitty tracks
and call yourself "the crystal method"


 

Organ Grinder from my own little fantasy world on 2001-09-24 23:39 [#00035985]



haha... good one, afterthought.

i wish i could get a minidisc recorder because that is what
Rephlex and many other labels prefer to have submitted to
them.

Hevquip, try buying an audio restoration program or
something of the likes for your hard-drive --- that's how i
record my live music --- i have this program called DartPro
32 --- it's mainly used for audio restoration, but if you
record live tracks like this they will sound fucking
great!!! ..just watch those levels.


 

Afterthought from Chicago on 2001-09-24 23:41 [#00035987]



the reason some labels want stuff on minidisk is because
they know what a pain it is to put stuff on minidisk, and
how few people own them, thus they get less demos, hence,
less shit music for them to wade through


 

hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-09-24 23:45 [#00035990]



i'd really like to make that minidisc plan backfire on them.


 

djfony -mike b- from helemano, hawaii -djfony.8m.com- on 2001-09-25 00:29 [#00036012]



afterthought:

have you ever even owned a minidisc recorder? Obviously not.
Yes they CAN compress but you can opt not to and then you
would get just 80 minutes of cd quality sound. Even on the
LP2 setting if recorded through an optical cable still
sounds excellent. I dont know what kind of MD recorder
you're talking about but I doubt it exists. Yes, you can
compress the sound to put more time on a cd BUT you have the
option of turning it off and using the base 80 minute burn
length.


 

djfony -mike b- from helemano, hawaii -djfony.8m.com- on 2001-09-25 00:30 [#00036014]



oh yeah and minidisc's being accepted by labels as
priority... one reason..

They are rewritable.


 

Afterthought from Chicago on 2001-09-25 00:42 [#00036022]



Difony mike B- yeah keep recording on minidisc, i'm sure
it's going to pay off...like you won't eventually get
something else to record on when you get more money...i'm
just saying be smart in the long run and get a cpu sound
card and some software... not some minidisc player that if
you'll be tired of in 6 months


 

djfony -mike b- from helemano, hawaii -djfony.8m.com- on 2001-09-25 00:46 [#00036027]



you are right afterthought.. .. a good soundcard is
essential but from the angle that I took the question from
was suggesting that he wanted to record mixes to his
computer but using minidisc because maybe his music gear
isnt near his computer ya know?


 

Afterthought from Chicago on 2001-09-25 00:48 [#00036029]



i'm not saying anything about mike's stuff...wow, i use pro
tools and my stuff sounds good to, so what? i'm just saying
get the stuff right from the start...


 

Afterthought from Chicago on 2001-09-25 00:59 [#00036036]



Yeah mike, i hadn't thought of it that way... it could come
in handy in that sense.


 

djfony -mike b- from helemano, hawaii -djfony.8m.com- on 2001-09-25 01:21 [#00036040]



as a matter of fact here is a write up i did of a new md
player i bought a few days ago...
http://musika.wmp3.fm/ubb/Forum5/HTML/019013.html


 

wayout from a plastic bubble on 2001-09-25 05:19 [#00036088]



i've seen multi-track mixer/recorders that record to mini
disc...i'm not sure if thats what youre looking for
though...if you are, i saw them on ebay


 

dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breathing fire on 2001-09-25 09:24 [#00036148]



at the moment i am at college studying music/studio
technology and it is true that the mini disc realy does have
to compress tons of data onto that little bit of aluminium
coated plastic thus in turn leaving the end result missing
lots of the original audio! i myself think that yes there
small n cheap but thy dont half diminish the quality of your
recordings!
analog is the prefered method used in many modern day
studios at uni we master all of our stuff onto audio tape
3cm wide, analog recordings record everything in the natural
stereo spectrum ie even the natural ambient silences, where
the digital method turns the anolog sound waves into the
binary form 1111000010101100001000 which basicaly results in
major compression and loss of natural true recording! though
it doesnt matter at all what quality of samples you use just
listen to the sample on the afx men remix that guy talking
about Es the quality is complete shite but it still makes me
grin everytime!


 


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