Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2002/08

From: "Jeroen T. Salm" <jtsalm@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] please: your advise on recording equipment
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:50:36 -0400

=A0=A0Hello fellow clarinettists,

I would like to get some advice. I think many of you make (digital)
recordings of concerts, your own playing, that of students etc.=20

I have always record(ed) myself, concerts (but also my students) with a
(mini)DAT recorder (Sony) for about 15 years now. Due to the fact that I
only know a few (audio weirdo's) with a DAT player, I have to burn the
digital DAT files (via PC) to a CD. Students, parents, friends can enjoy
the music played by there loveone(s) on there CD-players.=20
But: my miniDAT recorder had @-----. And: Sony doesn't make them
anymore. Furthermore: the tapes are getting very, very expensive! (And:
it=B4s a hell of a job to transfer the music to CD: it cost you lots of
time!)=20

What is your advice. What can/should I buy as alternative?
I know that nowadays "the" standard is the MD (MiniDisk), but: after
lurking the internet I think MD is not capable of transferring the
MD-files (or MP3 files on MD) directly (and digitally, by optical link
for instance) to PC for burning on CD... Again: CD player is standard,
only a few students have MD...

Are there other solutions, or is there (mini)recording equipment out
there for recording digitally (life on location) which can (digitally)
be burned on CD (the newest Sony MD seems not capable of doing so, due
to Sony@-----.)

]many thanx in advance!

Yours,
Jeroen T. Salm
(The Netherlands)

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