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Try blutack.

Of course the security people won't think it at all unusual that someone looks like they are listening to their audio player during the concert....

It's getting hard enough to find a full-size CD playing deck in the shops these days, let alone a full size MD deck. I'll vote for an AA a battery box and no auto track marking. OK, and a credit card size remote.

When recording - non-stealth - on location with the NH600 or the NH1, I always use the remote (MC40) simply because that's the only way to display levels etc when the unit is flat on its back on top of other equipment. And I keep the display always backlit. The nice thing about the RH1 when it get out here to Australia is that I will be able to dispense with the remote for recording, and I won't need it for playback either 'cos I'll be dumping straight to the PC and wiping the MD. It really is a recording-oriented machine.

http://www.aeqbroadcast.com/pr_paw120.htm shows the PAW 120 - 469 pounds in the UK - apart from lacking removable memory, very nice! Now this with a MD drive would have been nice....

Nine years ago... they should have had the chance to put the poor little disk through a good few writes and reads since then, for real!

Retention of record parameter settings is pretty key to the live recording people, as is the "micro deck" layout, which makes a lot of sense if sitting it on top of other equipment or wearing it over the shoulder (I would have thought they'd provide a dedicated case for that purpose?!). Yes, it's ideal for recording enthusiasts (like me...!) and less ideal for replayers.

Currently I have two regular methods of preparing concert audio for CD. 1) I use Adobe Audition for the editing and general 'post production', and I have track markers (points, not ranges) at the beginning of each song (or whatever), including one at the start. Audition inserts these, together with the annotations I provide for each marker, into the final wave file. I then open the file in CueListTool (freeware), read in the markers from the wave file using the button provided, and then click the button to create a cue sheet. CueListTool then calls Nero with the cue sheet as part of the command line, and Nero does the burning, CD text and all. You can use CueListTool to do all the marker creation if you don't want to do that in your editing software. Audition does have its own burning facility but for various reasons I prefer to use the method described, which also works with Cool Edit. 2) Alternatively I use Reaper (currently freeware while it's still in beta) for the editing etc, and then use the procedure described in http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=957 to create a cue sheet. The method is a very weird way to do it, and I rather hope the Reaper developers will improve on it in due course, but it works. Then I simply drag the cue sheet onto the Burrn (freeware) program icon, and hey presto, out comes a CD a couple of minutes later.

I don't have both - the HX-3 made a big enough hole in my wallet! - but one of my prime requirements was headphone amplification on location, where it's not uncommon to have to monitor in the same space as the performance. The HX-3 has plenty of power for that and it doesn't care whether the power is wall wart or battery. A headphone amp uses so little power that the quality of the incoming power source has to be pretty naff to trouble it. It keeps going for several seconds with no power at all! And of course, the advantage of being able work with Hi-MD on batteries for long periods is kind of lost if you have to tether yourself to the wall for the monitoring. Next time I do the Australia > England flight I might just have it with me! My other requirement was to provide additional headphone outlets for assistants. The mono/stereo switch is a useful check on mic phase etc and the belt loops enable handsfree use in the literal field. When not in use on the road it takes a balanced feed from my PC soundcard and does that very nicely too on a wall wart that I happened to have. I'd heartily recommend it to anyone needing that feature set. Where you go to compare the sound with any other model I don't know.

Having seen the price, which is only a little less than the list price for the Sound Devices HX-3 (supports 3 pairs of headphones, can be powered by batteries, balanced inputs plus inputs from headphone outputs), I hope the Gilmore Lite does sound pretty special.

Cheers, glad it helped. For this job in Cool Edit or Audition, use Edit View and use File > Open Append. Actually, you could say that the easiest way to do this is to use "MediaJoin" from Mystiik Media, though it doesn't seem to be on their site as such - Google might find it. It's a little program dedicated to joining files up to make large ones. Actually, searching for mediajoin on Google, it looks like there is more than one program with that name - anyway, if anyone else is looking for something of the sort, Google for that name and you should come up with something worth a try. (Do try to find time in due course fully to explore Reaper, julamau - it really is unbelievable - it's being developed by Justin Frankel who wrote the original Winamp, and I suspect that among the multitracking and editing community it will become as popular as Winamp became among mp3 folks. And dex - it was written originally to provide a Vegas-like environment for people who wanted a whole lot of extra functionality in Vegas and weren't getting it from Sony, so if you've not tried it, I'd recommend a look).

It's a good moment to mention Reaper here - currently beta, but generally stable, and free until it's officially released (and then might only cost $50 or less). Possibly as good an audio editor as you'll find anywhere at any price. Anyway, it should eat this job. There's a setting on its preference pages controlling whether added files are added one per track or along the length of the track one after another (which is what you want). http://www.reaper.fm/download.php is the site. It's an unbelievable 1Mb download and takes seconds to install.

When making up XLR cables involving stereo 3.5 plugs, buy a premade cable such as 3.5 to 2 x phono, chop off the phonos, solder on the XLRs. Saves struggling with soldering those pesky little 3.5 plugs.

The Teac DJ-101 digital jukebox (40gB mp3 format) was cleared here for the equivalent of about 120 pounds sterling. We have one and ripped most of our non-classical CDs onto it. Very handy for a member of the family who has a disability making it hard to handle normal CDs. Its playlist facility is useful for dinner party music. But most people would probably just plug their iPod into the hifi instead.

Hey, thanks for that info - it's always worth at least skimming the manual for just about anything you are about to buy - that way you find out the truth behind the advertising!

Fascinating! Thanks! Any way of gauging RH1 interest that way?

Ah yes, of course, thanks for that reassurance.

Seriously, guys, 1kyle's absence is a bit worrying - didn't he say he was going on a journey to a soccer game, and we've never heard from him since? I hope all is well.

'Cos professionals start the recording early. Actually, I'm semi serious - esp with Hi-SP, you've got so much recording time available that starting early is no big deal. Having said that - yes, it would have been nice, especially as the little chap has so many other standard features gatherered together.

Black on white is fine for me, but white on black is dire. Please don't go that route unless there's an option to turn it off.

He seems to be sitting on it... hopefully not literally, though I guess a bit of stress testing would be handy to know about....

Thanks for the warning - I'll wait for further details before attempting to connect anything to mine. I wish.....

I thought that posts seeking 'warez' were not permitted on this site? Non-freeware fonts are no different from non-freeware software.

Tch tch - what kind of MD fan are you who would put soccer in front of trying it out! Shame!

I can't imagine how you could get meaningful binaural sound out of conventionally recorded sound - the information simply isn't there. Recording binaural sound requires a specific mic technique. You can no more create a stereo file from a mono file (sure, pseudo-stereo, but not one which correctly places the sources in the soundfield). Using X/Y > MS > X/Y techniques you can widen the soundstage of a 'normal' stereo recording and emphasise out-of-phase components which can add to the headphone listening experience, but that's a very straightforward thing to do. When preparing others' classical recordings for broadcast I frequently find that they've been recorded with such poor stereo mic placement that the result is close to mono - using MS width expansion they magically come alive, and the original placement of the musicians and the sound of the hall is clearly revealed. But that's just a matter of recovering the information that's already there.