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The RH1 already has so many great features right out of the box. What else could we possibly want from this machine? I can't even think of anything that could be reasonably achieved through a firmware / service mode hack, although Kanji character display was a good idea. Line Out is already there. EQ and Surround Sound modes are already there. Maybe we could uncover a way to make the RH1 drive our cars or give us weather forecasts. Hey, maybe a hack could unlock a radio tuner, but I bet we'd know that from the technical specifications by now.

I don't think there is a way to hack the MZ-RH910 to enable a line out. You're probably just stuck turning off the EQ and putting the volume up all the way. I might be wrong though.

Upon encoding the atrac, the unit breaks down and displays a message "does not compute!"

I just meant the bottom end of the unit...opposite of the end where the audio jacks are.

Ahh, this quirk. If you gently press on the top and bottom of the unit near the left of audio jacks, and the part that rests in the dock, then that should help the lid pop open. Mine does the same thing. With some gentile encouragement you should be able to get the disc out.

And to think...after all the silly digital rights management stuff we've gone through in the past, HA! I wonder how Sony's music division feels about this. At this point, they probably don't care.

Hi cvdevol. I thought it was great when Sony finally introduced a Hi-MD deck sold with a microphone. I've never used that mic but maybe it'll do just find for what you want to record. Enjoy your new unit.

It might just be easier for you to find someone who has a deck that can do TOC cloning and send them the disc to get it fixed. Maybe you could even find someone here at the forums, but there is hope. I'd be interested to know if you or anyone else ever gets TOC cloning to work on the R37. Good luck!

Welcome to the forums, chrisr. All I can think of is that maybe the signal going into the deck is too much. That could explain the distortion, but I don't know about all the track marks. Sorry that I can't be of more help.

This is awesome! Hi-MD users have been waiting a long time for something like this! I wonder why the fake recording needs to be slightly shorter than the recording to be recovered. Hopefully I'll never have to try this with one of my recordings, but it's good to know that this is an option.

The ticking sound is probably "normal" to hear if you're using a damaged disc. I've heard that sound before and it's never pleasing to hear, but thankfully I haven't heard it from any of my decks in a while.

Still we are seeing 74 minute discs produced! At least they will work across a wide variety of MD units. This is a good-looking design.

Coooool cool cool. I'm going to upgrade right now.

Fight the power!

Try to play that disc in another Hi-MD unit if you can get access to another model somehow. Otherwise, you might be out of luck. However, I can tell you that out of the three Hi-MD units I own, the RH10 is the best at playing damaged discs and corrupted recordings. It doesn't work in every case, but I definitely have some recordings that at least "partially" play back on the RH10 vs. "not at all" on other models. The RH1 might be able to perform just as well, but I can't say for sure.

OK so it worked. I tried capturing two shows, one with the attenuator and one without it. The first really loud show was in an auditorium and the levels maxed out around 3 bars on the VU meter and they never went beyond four bars even during the extremely loud parts of the show. That came out sounding pretty good. There was almost no distortion, but it's a little bit quiet. Tonight I went to another loud show without the attenuator because I forgot to bring it, and the recording came out even better. I suppose this could be because it was in a club as opposed to an auditorium, but I maxed out around five or six bars on the VU meter, there's no bass distortion, and upon final mastering this is going to sound fantastic. So, good advice from each of you. Until recently, I've had almost no problems using the Mic In, but I should use the Line In more often. It is worth the trade off for all those extra track marks and a quieter master copy.

Thanks for the replies. The mics don't work without having the switch turned on, so the button battery power has to be used. I'll probably use manual record levels going through the line in with the attenuator turned down just a little bit, and hope for the best. Like I said, sometimes they work great and other times they don't. Even with a little bass distortion, I'm sure the recording won't be completely unlistenable, but I see CSBs or greenmachine mics in my future. Time to go to the show. Peace!

Oh no! Check eBay or minidisc online retailers, that's all I can think of. Maybe you could find some other remote that would work with your minidisc unit. I suppose you could try to fix it if you're handy with wire strippers and some electrical tape, but............... Good luck.

Hey guys, could we please have a quick review of how to calibrate the RadioShack volume attenuator? Tomorrow night I'll be recording a really LOUD show, and lately my recordings have been coming out distorted. Maybe the mics just can't handle it...I meant to get some new mics beforehand to try to take care of this, but now it's too late to have them shipped. So, even if some people could just point me to some links that have already been posted explaining how to do this, that would be great. I did check a couple of the pinned threads but couldn't find what I was looking for. I would like to know how much to turn down the dial on the attenuator. The mics are button-battery powered ones that I bought from RadioShack a long time ago. Thanks. BTW, here's a link with the info about the mics I'm using. Sometimes these work great, and other times they sound like crap. :-P http://www.radioshack.com/sm-hands-free-ti...pi-2102927.html

Usually the minidisc deck is "smart enough" to save what has been recorded when the battery power gets too low. Unfortunately it looks like that didn't happen in your case.

The long story short is that it works, but of course we're trying this on a beta version of the OS. It's fun to test (well, fun for some crazy people) but of course you wouldn't want to use this setup on any kind of "production" system for all your important recordings.

You've inspired me to go try this right now. BRB.

Welcome to the forums, anitab. Check out this link here for all the info about the MZ-NH700: http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-NH700.html

I'll throw some school papers on a disc here and there, and I have one disc with a bunch of tools and junk that I use at work, but that's the only data stuff I use Hi-MD for...unless I'm making some sort of weird compilation. I've got this 1GB disc I made for Phish's Coventry concert that's pretty cool. I'm not a huge Phish fan, but I worked at that concert so the disc has a bunch of photos and the soundboard recording w/ soundcheck, and scans of flyers that were passed out. Lots of memories stored on one small disc.

Yeah, I think this has to do with how you can use SonicStage to assign a date and time to the properties of each file. I suppose that's not really "timestamping" in the truest sense of the word, but I can see how this would be confusing considering what is printed in the manual.