What Do You Use Your Md Or Hi-md For?

[dex Otaku]

I hope the question is clear enough.

Clarification:

* Location recording - means recordings made "live" using a microphone or from a line source, generally speaking. This includes interviews, music recordings, poetry readings, sound effects/foley, environmental recording, &c.

[bland10000]

Listening

Monday through Friday, 45 minutes to work and 45 minutes return trip, so 1.5 hours x 5 = 7.5 hours

Saturday and Sunday, between 1 hour to 10 hours, depends if I'm travelling anywhere.

Recording

At least two hours a week I record music for trades or requests with students. I have made at least two discs a week for the past couple of years for kids because I use music in my lessons as a means to expose them to language and it is inevitable that I get requests for the albums. If we watch a movie and I have the soundtrack, I can have over 30 requests for the week.

I prefer to record via line-in so the recipients can delete anything they deem necessary. Granted, I'm in Japan so trading md's is common. If someone doesn't have a portable unit then they most likely have a home system that has md.

[edit] and then there recording for my own pleasure off the internet which isn't music. I try and record "wait wait don't tell me" every week for my listening pleasure and "this American life" for both me and as source material for higher level English students. So another two hours there, and then the occasional location recordings such as Buddhist chants at the local temple, and lectures or speeches so I can listen later for clarification.

Edited July 12, 2005 by bland10000

[KJ_Palmer]

Mostly listening to copied CD material, but as an occasional recordist, mostly of my own musical endeavours, I find (Hi-)MD is the best format for me in that I have a unit that can both record and play back high quality audio. I have no need or desire for oodles of gigabytes of 'all' my CD collection on one disc...

I'm also doing a lot of timed recordings through my deck system, which I find easiest through the MD medium...

[The Low Volta]

recording:

-I'm currently working on my masters thesis and I need to do a lot of interviews for that purpose. I also record a lot of conferences, meetings, lectures, symposia etc. if they can be relevant for me or my fellow students (give them copies on CDR, and every time they are surprised of the quality, even with my rubbish Sony mono mic)

-future: my thesis deadline is at the end of July, after that I hope to start recording live shows as in Belgium there are some clubs with exquisit sound and they also get a lot of great bands to play there... but I still need some good mics for that

listening

-I use my NH900 almost constantly when I go out the door alone, whether walking/riding public transport in Brussels or traveling by train between the different places I partly live (I actually live at four locations...only one of them, a room of 3x4m in Brussels, is mine)

-now I'm writing a lot (at my parent's place) I use it mostly connected to a big stereo, playing a post-rock compilation (Explosions in the sky, GYBE!, mogwai,...) or some classical (cello sonatas from Bach) and modern classical (Arvo Part) all of which are excellent as writing background music...

[greenmachine]

Location recording exclusively - it's hard to beat this portable, pocket sized, high quality -almost- all-in-one solution with incredibly low power consumption. For portable playback i prefer a non-mechanical medium (flash card based mp3 player).

Volta: Patience is a virtue.

[KrazyIvan]

It depends on the unit. My R900 was my main location recorder. Now I am using an Aiwa AM-F80 for that. My Sharp MD-MT170 is used for recording CD's off the optical output on my XA1ES deck. The 600D is for playing music at work and exercising. That one is used at least 8 hours a day/ 5 times a week. I also use it to title tracks recorded on the Sharp and Aiwa. I alternate the 600D with my E80 player.

[MZ-NH1]

Main music listening device. Put as many of my songs from my PC to MD as I can fit.

Also used for recordings of myself playing my Trombone and other instruments to use for constructive criticism about how things can be used.

Also record concerts

[Leon]

Recording, recording, recording.

There are many MP3 players that claim to record, but few have rec level control, and pretty much none of them can split tracks like MD track marks. MD portables are also surprisingly reliable for this purpose. I had the iAudio 4 once and it kept crashing or running out of juice mysteriously; ditto my current iRiver 790.

Like bland, I use MD to record radio shows. Wait wait... is one of the few shows I can still laugh my body parts off to.

Edited July 13, 2005 by Leon