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Author: Lorie
Date: 2000-08-10 20:10
HELP!!! I need to find a way to record my playing (I have a huge audition)...Any thoughts about a relatively inexpensive way to record digitally??? What about brands and names of equipment? Thanks
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Author: drew
Date: 2000-08-10 21:16
Lorie:
Try a portable MiniDisc recorder, Sony makes several very nice ones for $300.00 or less. Get a decent microphone (maybe another $50), and you'll have a portable digital recording studio. I use a similar setup to record a clarinet choir I'm a member of to make demo tapes.
Of course if you need to send off an audition tape, you'll have to dub from the MD to a cassette deck, which is not difficult.
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Author: clarinetfreak
Date: 2000-08-10 23:36
I recently purchased a Sony MR-70 and it's amazing how well this little thing records. i bought mine at Circuit City for $250. The thing with is that you need a very good microphone. Try to find a store (usually a electronics specialty store) that has a Sony digital microphone. The microphone should be around $300. Good luck on your audition.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-11 00:32
I picked up the Sony stereo mic for my RZ-55 at a loccal Guitar Center for about $250.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-08-11 23:14
Is there a way to copy to a standard CD from the mini disc?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-12 00:19
Willie wrote:
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Is there a way to copy to a standard CD from the mini disc?
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Sure - from the line out or the digital (optical) output.
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Author: Joris van den Berg
Date: 2000-08-13 22:20
About producing CD's from home made recording's. I've made several orchestra recordings and came to the following conclusions:
spending more money on the microphone gives better results than spending more money on the recording device.
when you want to make a CD out of it, MD isn't the right choise, for CD is 16 bit 44,1 kHz while MD is only 38kHz the conversion gives more quality loss than a good analogue compact cassette recording converted to CD would have given. If you wan't to make a good CD recording, use either a DAT recorder (quite expensive) or a DCC recorder (very cheap but obsolete due to bad marketing (apart from being inpractical the device is extremely good)).
Hoping this post isn't too technical and is helpfull,
Joris
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-13 22:35
Joris van den Berg wrote:
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the conversion gives more quality loss than a good analogue compact cassette recording converted to CD would have given.
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Not according to the audio engineers I contacted before buying a MD. The compression algorithms used currently are very good compared with the initial release of the MD. Cassettes, even recorded professionally (using Dolby C on high-bias metal) , can barely approach the MD. However, the direct digital (DAT or CD) formats are audibly better than MD - but just barely.
The mic is almost always the weak link - good (professional) level mics can exceed 5K USD.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2000-08-13 23:09
The Sony MZ R70 has the advantage of running on just one AAA-battery. I'm using a Sony ECM-MS907 microphone, which cost about $100 here in Paris and gives excellent results.
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Author: Joris van den Berg
Date: 2000-08-14 07:40
I can't notice the difference between a MD or DAT recording in it self but if you converse 38kHz MD to 44,1kHz CD aliasing ruins the thing (the same thing happens if you make a better than CD 48kHz DAT recording and put that on CD
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-14 11:30
Joris van den Berg wrote:
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I can't notice the difference between a MD or DAT recording in it self but if you converse 38kHz MD to 44,1kHz CD aliasing ruins the thing (the same thing happens if you make a better than CD 48kHz DAT recording and put that on CD
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Joris, My MZ-R55 and all the other MD players I know about have a 44.1 sampling rate output. There is a sampling rate converter for input that can possibly cause problems.
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