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I had a live recording that played back at least three times fine. Now it just plays a little of it and it's all gone! This sucks so badly! I recorded it LP2 on my MZ-R700 and it sounded fine and worked very well! Now it doesn't play anything and it says that it has 7 seconds of track one and then plays like 13 secs of track 2 and then it plays 34 seconds of track three and then dies after track four after 6 seconds. It played fine before!!!!!! What in the world happened? Has anyone had this happen? I'm livid as this was a show I can never get back. Is there any way to save it? Jill

Happy Birthday kurisu!! Hope the day is treating you well, thanks for being here! Minispecs!

Hello, I recorded a concert in LP2 to keep from switching discs, but upon playback the disc is having problems reading and it stalls at different times (not consistently so I know it is not a skip in the recording). Does anyone have any suggestions for playing back without the stalls and reading problems? I've tried using another player as well as rocking the player gently while playing it back and it seems to alleviate the problem of the player stalling while reading for some odd reason, but I don't want to have to shake it for two hours whilst transferring to my computer! Anyone else have this problem? Should I put track marks in to keep the disc from stalling? Any tips or tricks or suggestions? I have a Sony MZ-R700 and the disc is an 80 minute Fujifilm. Are these bad discs? Also, if anyone out there could clone a TOC to one of my discs recorded in LP2 I'd love you forever :-) I'm trying to recover another recording. minispecs

Couldn't you also use a battery box with slide level controls and then set each level separately? I have a battery box with level controls on each channel (left and right) and it would seem that setting one higher than the other would make one louder than the other. But what do I know about these kinds of things? Seriously though, it seems very possible. minispecs

Reading this old post above...*Is* this possible that you could put another TOC on a recorded disc and save it? (i'm not completely understanding this) I have had a couple failures on recordings and just erased one after reading somewhere that it was a lost cause. Does this mean my data/recording is still there, and that someone can re-write the TOC for me and fix the recording? Secondly, I've found this old FAQ also to prevent the TOC not writing issue, and would like to know how to utilize it best...I'm guessing recording the whole disc with a stereo plug to miniplug that is not connected to another source would do the trick? If so, will this really prevent my Disc from appearing blank should the writing of the table of contents fail on the second recording, even if recording over the "blank" disc from the beginnning? Sorry, I'm just not understanding this whole TOC thing and it happens so rarely to me, but the disappointment the first time was tear inducing. I'd love to know if there were a way to recover the recording. Forgive my ignorance...haven't been able to find much in the archives.

Woo! Thanks LowMD for your testimonial! I will try that (and blast my upstairs neighbor right back...they produce music at home and don't care about my living quality). I'll try with both the batt box and without, maybe I'll blast some Beastie Boys

Yes, I've just been reading the specs at the yahoo group, seeing how people are using their mics and machines and settings, etc and how you've acheived loud recordings with your MD with the low sensitivity mics and the attenuator. I'll pick one up on my way home from work today and try it out with a manual setting and my old stereo lapel mics from Radio Shack...those should be low sensitivity without the little battery pack...no? I just pray for hopes of recording with my MZ-r700 as I'd love not to have to switch discs and I can't afford one of the new toys just yet. Even if I can get my R-37 to work without a battery box, that'd be superb! I just wish there were a way to test recording in loud situations without paying for a rock concert! Minispecs

Mic In, bass roll-off set to like the second rolloff usually for loud situations, *and* level control in combination, therefore my: "so many variables and me not able to look at the level or audit the recording while it's going happening" :-) I figured out why when I used my MZ-R700 it didn't work from an article online (due to a pre-amp that frequently distorts recordings). However whilst using my older R-37, I still have trouble determining how sensitive to set my battery box and how much bass rolloff to use for each situation. I guess I've been lucky in the past, at times getting excellent recordings just based on intuition, but I want to know what it is I'm doing when I get good results and not just guessing and hit or miss recordings. Precious stuff, my music! :-) I'll check that link out and see if it will help. My recordings range from small clubs with low ceilings and loud music (creating distortion and muffled at best recordings) to larger venues, loud to soft music (general admission) but close to the front (I don't want to be in the back :-)), and then there are the larger, older venues with seats, they are sometimes so cavernous the recordings sound as if they are a little echoy and not at all "what I heard". The music played at each of the larger venues ranges from Piano and unmic'd voice (probably a range of 70 dB to 125 dB! looking at that chart) to full on 4 piece band with drums and bass and electric guitar and mics, all in the same show. I guess I'll have to look into a degree in acoustics and sound engineering as well as a little electronic engineering while I'm at it ;-) I've found that not using the battery box I get major distortion (of course) and I'm afraid to use the line-in option because recordings my friends have done using these settings sound so low, and not at all as rich (after they amplify them digitally) as mine with the batt. box! So this chart you've linked me to (thanks!) will at least help me figure relative sounds to dBs so I know a little better how much I am rolling off in the future. I think my instructions for the box were clear as they could be for how much rolloff you get per setting but I didn't know what the numbers meant! :-)

Hey, I use the slimline battery pack with bass rolloff and the level selection from Sound Professionals with the in ear Binaurals...it's great, when it works (that is with my current http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-R37.htmlSony MzR37 :-) but I have a problem figuring the switches when I need to set it to specifics...I don't know anything but "loud and then louder" and "farther and closer to the source" which could be an arena, a small venue or an old theatre that seats approx. 3,000, not what kinds of dBs these situations each produce. When it works, it works great! I've had great recordings from countless places. Then when I don't have it set right, it just gets all distorted and bad :-( Ah well, that's the stuff of live recording :-) But tell me, do they have a listing of the settings that would work for different venue sizes and different loudness requirements? That'd be the bees knees for an amateur like myself :-) Specs