rauer Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 The reason for asking this is that I want to record a double album on SP quality on an 80 mins MD. The album in question is Pink Floyd's The Wall which has a duration of ca. 39:1* for the first disc and a bit less than 42 mins for the second making the total between 81 and 82 mins. So, before I spend another precious 1 hour 20 mins of my life recording this, I'd like to know if an 80 mins TDK is exactly 80 mins or could there be some extra space like VHS used to have?Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rauer Posted January 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 Never mind, I found Peter Ravn's calculator. Because of 13 or 26 seconds I can't do it in SP (not sure how to interpret). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamagatacamille Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 well, w/ precision editing eliminating any seconds of dead silence, you could do it in SP. an 80min blank is actually 80:59; in case you didnt know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rauer Posted January 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 well, w/ precision editing eliminating any seconds of dead silence, you could do it in SP. an 80min blank is actually 80:59; in case you didnt know ←Yes, thanks. I actually didn't know it until I found Peter's site. Editing does not seem very tempting. Any way, I'm currently recording it. In about 49 mins you'll hear me swearing and yelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 Try to record it in one take (well two) - ie. without pressing stop after every track to do titling or whatever... You lose 2 seconds in SP mode whenever stop is pressed, which in your case could be crucial... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rauer Posted January 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 Try to record it in one take (well two) - ie. without pressing stop after every track to do titling or whatever... You lose 2 seconds in SP mode whenever stop is pressed, which in your case could be crucial...←That's what I did. And........ at 9 secs remaining "Disc Full". Crap. Not the end of the world but annoying for any anal retentive geek like me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 What a shame... sometimes there's a second or two of silence at the end of a track. If you press the forward button on your CD player at those points (if any) you might be able to gain 9 secs overall...Of course this is where decks really shine - you can fade in/out tracks early as well as other handy editing functions. I don't suppose you have a deck handy though... Maybe you can simulate fade out by using the manual rec level... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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