Pre-HiMD lens & Head Cleaner Discs

[JWCompany]

Hi,

first of all, this post probalby doesn't serve any purpose at all except expressing my deep relief that my NH700 isn't broken. But actually, I'll combine my story with a question in the end, I promise.

This weekend I recorded a rehearsal with my band. Everyone said I should be quite pleased with myself so I was quite interested what the recording would reveal. With horror I found my MD switched off when I wanted to stop the recording. Anyway, I didn't have the time to check but I thought that I must have forgotten about pressing the record button. Later on my way home I did check and - surprise surprise - I found that there was some audio data on there. With some pleasure I started listening. However, imagine my smile fade away as after some fifeteen minutes I started to get the first gaps in the recording. Not skips, just silence for a second and then back to normal again. This happened a few times and then the whole affair ended with a couple minutes of silence. I was quite horrified because I thought that my recorder was broken. Just now I happened to change the disc and to my immense relief I found that I had been recording on a MiniDisc Lens & Head Cleaner Disc! Quite interesting that it worked for 15 Minutes. (NetMD formated I guess, but I'm not popping that one in again until anyone can relief me:)

Now I was wondering (sure enough after happiness about a not disfunctional NH700 there comes anxiousness), is there anything I might have damaged in my recorder by using a pre-HiMD lens cleaner disc? Have they changed the lens or head or the distance to the disc or something like this? Actually, a friend of mine told me to use those things only as a last resort anyway as they'd probably do more harm than good... What do you reckon?

Thanks,

Johannes.

[Ral-Clan]

Just now I happened to change the disc and to my immense relief I found that I had been recording on a MiniDisc Lens & Head Cleaner Disc! Quite interesting that it worked for 15 Minutes. (NetMD formated I guess, but I'm not popping that one in again until anyone can relief me:)

Eeee-Gads! Well, I have a cleaning disc. Did you use the one with the brushes for cleaning the laser, or the one with the fabric backing for cleaning the magnetic head? Both do seem to have a bit of a "real" MD surface in there (I think they are just modified MDs), so it's understandable you could record on it.....but if you were using it to record an hour long rehearsal you are very lucky as (at least the magnetic head-cleaning one) can be mildly abrasive to get the dirt off (It's only meant to be used in 30 second bursts).

[JWCompany]

Well I can't really say. It looks as if there was a thin 4mm long (going outwards) fluffy thing attached to the disc inside the case. It's made by Deja, that's about as much as I can say. I just hope nobody gives me bad news on this topic because tomorrow I'll need my MD for the proper gig, I'd hate to loose that.

Johannes.

[greenmachine]

Why not do a full test recording (record a disc from beginning to end in PCM mode) before that gig and see if there are any issues? I guess nobody else can tell for sure if it's been damaged. You'll have to see for yourself.