damnspynovels

Sorry for the multiple new topics - but I just got the JB940 and so am reacquainting myself with MD after not having a recorder for over 14 years. I used to just have an R30, so obviously this deck is much more advanced. However, I'm really struggling to edit tracks. I can't remember how I used to do it on my portable, but I swear it wasn't this complicated, meaning I feel like I'm missing something. If i record a song from vinyl, I used to start the recording just before the needle drops, and stop it after the song's finished, knowing I can edit it afterwards. I don't remember exactly how I used to do it - but I recall I simply listened for the moment the song started, and a fraction of a moment before I'd hit a track marker insert. the same goes for the end. Then I'd just delete the extra two tracks I'd have created. With the JB940 - it seems much more complicated. I think I can do it two ways - either using divide, or A-B delete - but both seem really finicky. Is there no way to do it my old way of just listening back to the song, and hitting one button to insert a track mark?

I have replied to the seller to ask. Will any wide Sony MD remote work? Or does it have to be a specific model? I ask as there's remotes on ebay that appear to be like my narrow one in all ways except model number.

I just tried titling a disc and realised I think I got the wrong remote with the jb920 deck I got from ebay. It's a narrow RM-D10E. What's the disadvantage? Is it just titling or am I missing something else? Is this something a PS/2 keyboard would solve?

I want to add to something about the tangible point. I don't like the invisible - I like to interact with my music - which is why I don't really have any music stored as mp3s - rather just CDs and vinyl. But ironically for me it doesn't just mean physical - as peculiar a concept I think of duration and the time spent in the moment as a tangible concept as well. You hear a lot these days about the lost art of the mix tape. I had a discussion about it with my significant other last night, as I heard yesterday Billy Joe Armstrong (Green Day) recently bought a cassette recorder to return to the format. I suggested that making a mix tape meant more because it took 90 mins to make. That it wasn't just about the song choice, but those 3.5 mins it takes to record each song. During those moments, you're both thinking about the next song, but also imagining how the recipient will feel when listening to it - there's so much more time to get wrapped up in all the emotions that go with a mix tape. Obviously the words tape and minidisc are interchangeable here - if they're both being made in real-time. She argued, rightly so, that you can replicate that experience with playlists - e.g. on Spotify or in iTunes - and that it doesn't just have to be a silent experience of dragging song titles into a playlist without listening. Whilst it's inarguable, I just never find myself doing that. It's funny, when i had my R30, I was the only person I knew who had one. I made mix tapes for people, but I'd actually "master" them on the R30 - much easier to reorganise after the fact before committing to tape. Tape does get a bad rap though. Obviously not up to the standard of MD, but a good deck with a good tape could reach pretty great heights.

So you might as well just keep it on 24bit - just in case?

Yeah that would make sense, but I think I also read something about how it only affects digital output?

Actually I'm not quite sure how to describe my question... I've just got a Jb940 - and I've read somewhere in the instructions about improving sound quality by adjusting the bit rate? I'm not referring to LP etc, but something to do with changing the bits between 16, 20, and 24? My set up would include a CD player that I think has a 24bit BurrBrown DAC in it, and a MacBook which I'll transfer audio (likely of 16bit origin) optically - but otherwise I'll be using analogue inputs. So what / how does this bit selection factor in the process?

1. How old were you when you first 'bought into' the format? 22 - in 1997 - i bought a MZ-R30 portable. 2. Do you still regularly use your very first player? No. Funny story really. I got my first portable whilst at University, and used it everywhere I went. Once I graduated a year later, I started driving everywhere so my MD was consigned to a drawer. I saved up for an in-car unit, and the R30 found a new purpose (recording discs for the car). Then the R30 died, so I replaced with a R90. Unfortunately, pretty soon after, my car was broken into and my in-car deck was stolen, along with the wallet containing all my discs. I couldn't bare to go through it all again, so I sold the R90 and replaced the in-car deck with a cd player. My MD days were over... 3. Do you regularly 'use' your items, or are some purely of interest as a 'collector'? I've just bought a MDS-JB940QS deck, because I miss MD, hate invisible music (ie mp3s), and love tangible formats (vinyl is my primary source of music). So not a collector, but hoping to become a regular MD user again (hence joining this community). 4. Do you listen to 'new' music on your discs, or prefer to keep the format for music 'of the era'? It'll be both. 5. Do you own more items than you can 'practically use'? In general, yes, but MD is a no. 6. Did you 'go away' from MiniDisc', only to return to it at a later date? Yes, about a 13 year gap. 7. Do you associate use of your player with 'fond memories', or is it a purely 'practical' consideration? I'd say in all honesty my return is more a nostalgic trip than a practical one, but I adore the tangible. My 'at-home' listening is always from either a vinyl record or a CD, and whilst I use my phone in the car and at work for music, I use my Spotify subscription. The sound quality is awful, even though I use a DAC.