Trouble Recording The Whole 5 Hour Show

[cyman73]

Hello all,

I own two MZN505s and I recently developed a problem with one of them. I use one to record approximately 5 hours of a radio show and one to listen at work.

When listening to a recorded disc, the sound would skip and made the recording almost impossible to listen to. So I swapped the recorders and the problem seems to have dissapeared. My new problem, however, is that the new recorder won't record all the way to the end of the disc. Only 80 or so minutes or recorded audio is available. The disc has only one track, I know this because I erased the whole disk before I began recording. What could be wrong. I guess I'll have to try a new disc.

Another problem is that if I have multiple tracs on a disk and I begin recording a new 5 hour interval, the recoding stops at the end of the first track. What is wrong here.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[dex Otaku]

I'm assuming you were recording in LP4 mode.

Do you have the recorder -IN- LP4 mode?

SP mode records 80 minutes on an MD80, so it would make sense that if it weren't in the correct mode, it would stop there.

[cyman73]

I'm assuming you were recording in LP4 mode.

Do you have the recorder -IN- LP4 mode? 

SP mode records 80 minutes on an MD80, so it would make sense that if it weren't in the correct mode, it would stop there.

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Duh, that was right on Otaku. I got that to work for the 300 or so minutes now.

New issue: It seems that the recorder is recording in SYNC-R mode, even if the SYNC-R is OFF. I have over 80 tracks now in one recording. Can it be that there is another setting that I should be changing??

Thanks.

[dex Otaku]

I can't be sure that every model works this way, but most MDs and all HiMDs thus far will automatically mark tracks [based on quiet/silent passages of at least 2 seconds] when you use the line-in, regardless of the SYNC-R setting.

SYNC-R is valid when you use the optical input, since a valid SPDIF connection will include track marks in the subcode.