orangezero

Its interesting coming back here and looking at what everyone else has done. Probably the best place to ask this. I ripped my old mic right chanel cord, and have a few capsules still around so I was going to build a new set. I've talked with others that said an "ok" way to get two pairs is to measure the resistance over the leads and get ones that are about equal. Not very precise, but a lot quicker than other ways. I've never made a set that was exactly equal.... So, my question is about the capsules. Years ago they recommended a metal housing to surround the mic capsule. I used a small brass tube at the time, and it was easy for me to cut up some alligator clips and solder them on to the brass. I noticed greenmachine didn't use any metal, just heat shrink tubing. I think they recommended metal to fill out the sound somehow, but wasn't sure. Does anyone have any experience with this or recommendations? I believe mine are the common panasonic caps. I'm not sure if I'll try the modification or not, any comments? thanks all.

I finally got my RH1, and got it uploading some legacy SP recordings from several years back. I've only done one or two discs so far, but its so much quicker... However, my third or fourth disc has two longer tracks of 25+ minutes that seem to make the uploading stop. It doesn't seem as if it should take quite that long.. anyone know why? are longer tracks supposed to take so much longer than several smaller tracks of the same time? it keeps saying "transfering" but the time remaining keeps getting bigger and bigger. On the Rh1, "ACCESS" keeps blinking. Trying to transfer SP to PCM... The only thing I'm thinking is that perhaps I have a bad disc, or there is some dust or something under the cover. I havne't tried taking the disc and seeing if it plays those parts yet or not, but thought I'd ask here first. I'm using sonic stage 4.0 (sonic stage 3.4 wouldn't recognize the standard MD discs) on an XP pro machine. Also, I really need to get rid of my rh10 now, check my for sale thread. thanks, orange

SOLD> thanks for looking

Did you get my pm?

thanks for the pm, no problem. Never said thanks for point out the review either. I've been waiting for this for a while, as have most i assume. Hope someone can pull away from their's long enough to shed some light. take care

yeahs, thats the review I was talking about. I was looking to get some realworld experience before plunking down the money. Plus, no one seems to want my rh10 either...

I've read one or two reviews a while back, but was wondering if anyone had any idea on how long it does actually take to get a normal MD recording uploaded into SS with the RH1? Also, any speed increase with pcm uploading (originally from linein with mics)? I ask because it seems to take forever to upload and convert to .wav. No other devices on usb to slow it down. I just expected it to be faster. I thought I heard the number of around 10x realtime for SP uploading, but does this include the startup and conversion as well? For instance, would it really only take 5 minutes to get a 50minute recording uploaded and transfered to wav format? or would it be more to do all that? I have probably 60 or 80 standard MDs that I would like to backup and have better access to but I'm a little leary of the time it will take to do it all. thanks,

I'm looking to upgrade to the RH1 only because I need to transfer some older standard minidiscs to the PC. I've recorded about 5 or 10 concerts with this, used it for a few more hours while walking, but mostly its been sitting in my dresser out of action. I mainly got it as a recording device. Shouldn't have to talk much about it here, but ask away if you have questions. Its the standard black American version with the OLED blue display (why didn't they do backlighting 10 years ago for live recording!!!). I'm not sure what to sell it for, and would really rather not deal with ebay. I also have some MD cases for sale I no longer need. There are various ones available, some clamshell and some slide in designs. Sony, maxell, memorex, lots of different colors and styles. any interest? I have heatware references and ebay as well. my email is orangezeroalpha at gmail for questions, live in illinois and would love to not have to ship if possible. thanks for looking. orange. <SOLD>

yeah, this is all great and all, but i still have tons of standard "old school" minidiscs of personal recordings and i still have to spend 74 minutes uploading, instead of the 5minutes it should take. its just plain silly. You would think sony would realize that if they did allow this seemingly easy option, a lot of people that have stayed away from himd would reconsider. old md users are more likely to use himd than the normal population, don't ya think? how hard would it really be to do. i can't believe someone hasn't ever cracked or hacked the software to allow these things to happen. aren't there any geeks that do md anymore?? i mean, besides me. nobody but me would ever want to listen to my recordings anyway...

I would guess that would be true, but never had the time to do all that. with my new battery box (which could affect things also), my recordings are about 1.2 to 1.4 dB off most of the time between the two mics. I have been experimenting in soundforge to come up with the best way to equalize these. I have been mostly just normalizing each channel separetly based on the peak dB. if i use the average i have a hard time without going overboard. i guess i should put this in a new thread. any good websites for how live music should sound? i assume its mostly the ear of the beholder. outdoor show was way too bass-y but the indoor one turned out real good, (despite my heavy drinking) take care,

As far as matching the caps, to do a quick test to see which are going to be similar you might try measuring the resistance over the two connections. get ones that are close together in their readings.. i think the guy from core sound told me that is a "decent" way to get similar caps if you have no other way to test them. the other way, with test signals, would be better i think, but time consuming. good luck

i assume you've done all these things, but here goes: check that it is importing the songs in .wav format, straight pcm and not encoding them to atrac. try out some other speakers or headphones on the computer, or burn to cd and play in your stereo just a few things to check.

i'd put in a vote for the rh10. the oled comes in read handy in the dark... plus, from what i found, the rh10 is probably cheaper than the 900. only big disadvantage is that you can't record standard minidisc atrac with the 2nd gen (rh10). i believe you still can in sonicstage, just not when using line or mic in. might want to double check if that's important to you. having done one recording and uploading, it is much faster and the quality should be better as well. hope that helps some.

yeah, they always like a copy, after they are done laughing. i'm the one with all the wires and parts running across my body and hidden in my clothes at shows and bars. anything to make me less mechanical is a blessing. i think, despite all the irritating things, this rh10 will be about the best recorder yet. too bad they can't make a decent line-in recorder with levels and a memory card for storage. simple usb attachment and recognized as a disc drive in windows. (oh, and thats under what i paid for my rh10, forgot about the microtrack and others) i'll stop getting off topic.

Ok, added two more pics of the finished product. i'm not usually too rough on my stuff, think it should be okay now. the cord is wraped around inside a little bit and stuck on my quite a bit of that jb weld. its small enough now that i could build another with a slight roll off and take it with as well and it would still be less stuff to carry. thanks again guys, (gm especially)