Klarinet Archive - Posting 000362.txt from 2000/08

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] ICA Library now searchable from the ICA Web site
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:40:00 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I recently acquired a very nice portable DAT recorder and mike.
> I'd like to
> record some of my playing and that of friends and upload to my computer to
> make some cd's for our own use. Or even just store the music on my hard
> drive for later study, in wav or mp3 format for example. If anyone has
> experience with this process I would appreciate hearing from you.
>
> I would imagine there has to be some way of inputting the digital
> information from the DAT machine onto the hard drive and perhaps also some
> type of minimal editing software. I would hope I don't have to buy more
> hardware, another deck, etc.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Stewart Kiritz
>

I assume that you probably got a Sony TCD-D8, 100, M1, etc... machine as
they are pretty popular and not too expensive. If you want to access the
Digital Out, you will need to get the RMR D-100 kit. It costs about $200
and comes with a remote control, optical and coax ins and outs. There are
some cheaper digital cables you can get, but they lack in reliability
sometimes.

Most Computer sound cards with digital I/O these days have a S/PDIF
interface on a coax (phono plug) connecter. I believe the Sound blaster
Live series has a Digital I/O. With the cheaper cards, if you go in analog,
you will end up taking a pretty big hit in your fidelity.

Also, make sure that you import the audio at 16bit 44.1kHz sampling rate.
Otherwise, once again, you will take a pretty big hit in your audio quality.
Also if you want to make CD's for use in a normal CD player, don't bother
encoding into MP3 format. Keep it as a .wav file and burn directly from
there. It *will* take up more space on your hard drive, but then you won't
have to deal with encoding and decoding MP3's-- another set of processes
that are extremely destructive to the sound.

Hope this helps a bit.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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