Anders-f Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 I´ve recently bought a new Hi-Md recorder, Sony MZ-NH900 and tried some recording while playing with my band. The recordings were alright, but some strange clippings are heard when the drummer make a sudden sharp noise or the trombon go on to heavily. I suspect that is due to flaws in the automatic record level system? Is it prefered to use manual level settings? What is more troublesome is that the machine on several occasions have hanged during the "data save" or "Writing to file system" processes. To beboot the machine i had to remove and replace the battery. This has only happened with 80 min standard discs so far. (Hi-Md not available in stores yet, but one was delivered with the player). Has anyone have similar troubles? How are these hang-ups avoided? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsoul Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 The clipping was likely due to the AGC setting, I always use manual and keep the levels low enough to avoid any peaks that might clip. The "Data Save" hang I have not experienced with my NH900. Is this all on the same MD or are you using different ones when you have the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linzq Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 What is more troublesome is that the machine on several occasions have hanged during the "data save" or "Writing to file system" processes. To beboot the machine i had to remove and replace the battery. This has only happened with 80 min standard discs so far. (Hi-Md not available in stores yet, but one was delivered with the player). Has anyone have similar troubles? How are these hang-ups avoided?My 800 hung once on 'data save', but never on 'writing to file'. It was with a Hi-MD disk, (and right after I dropped the player)... I have had no problems since (over 6 weeks now) -- and I 'rebooted' the same way as you did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etotheix Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 I've had my 900 hang a few times when doing a lot of editing of trackmarks. It doesn't seem to save edits until you press stop. I had recorded some of my old cassette tapes and was adding in and adusting trackmarks between songs. It would hang up and I'd have to open the battery door to get it to shut down. All the editing I did would be lost. This happened three or for times. So now I always press stop to save what I've done after two or three edits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsideo Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 AGC is really not very useful (though it DOES seem to be a bit more robust than it was in my N707) for anything music-related. You'll find this repeated throughout the forum; it's great for recording lectures and anything that does not have sudden level spikes, but the dynamics of music recording just ask to much of it and rarely will it sound good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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