UMWOOFWOOFF Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 (edited) Hello everyone...I'm a huge fan of regular old legacy SP MD. I've RARELY ever had a problem with minidisc recording, or with the discs themselves. I've actually had four discs out of hundreds give me a problem. Usually, what they do, is just start to "cut out" when being played back. All three discs were Memorex (as well as one Maxell XL-II which gives me a disc error on every deck I've tried). I've had good luck with the clear Memorex "Crystal" discs since they were actually made by Hi-Space. The instance I'm going to refer to regards one of these Memorex discs.I don't use a computer for recording, and I do alot of old-school recording off of many sources. The other morning I was trying to record Fantasia's performance on the "Today" show (BTW, her studio music is total S**T but live her singing is amazing even if the songs are lame) and when I played it back the audio would cut out every few seconds. It was a brand new disc, and there was no "crud" on my recording head (this is a VERY common problem with MD...check your recording head for debris! I've gotten 2nd hand discs that have had GOBS of crud on the top layer of the discs...which gets deposited on the recording head and will RUIN your discs!). So, I tried to play it in a bunch of my different decks...Much to my surprise all decks played the flawed disc differently. The only one that would play it with a drastic decrease in the audio drop-outs was one of my MDS-JA333ES decks. I guess the error correction is much more advanced in that deck. Anyway, after trying to dub the song unsuccessfully on one of my MDS-W1 minidisc dubbers (which makes exact ATRAC clones from disc to disc) I got the idea to play the song on my 333ES (since it almost played the song through) and record it on another disc; but, then I'd get terrible artifacts from "re-Atrac'ing" the original, so that was out. I hate CD recorders and didn't have one handy at the time, and was looking for a quick easy fix to save the recording. I figured something happened during recording and the "burn" process didn't occur properly. So, I decided to try to "re-burn" the song on the same disc by using Scale Factor Edit. I checked to see if a 2db increase was acceptable (it was) and basically let the 333ES re-burn the song on the same disc. PRESTO!!!The disc now plays on every deck I've tried it on with NO drop-outs, no hick-ups, no problems whatsoever!So, I tried this exact thing with the other 2 Memorex discs I have had over the years that had the same problem...and it worked!! Problem fixed! So, I guess it wasn't a problem with the discs per say but some combination of factors when the discs were originally recorded. But, just a tip...if you have any discs that exhibit this problem, try the Scale Factor Edit trick to see if you can "re-burn" what you may think is a ruined disc. It worked great for me!!! Here's an easy way to S.F. Edit an entire disc. If you have an entire disc that has problems, first clone that disc's TOC on another blank disc. Then, create a 74 or 80 minute long disc as one long song to use as a test disc to clone to the disc you are trying to fix. The simple reason to do this is by doing this you won't have to S.F. Edit 20 or so songs individually. Then, re-clone your original TOC back to the original disc once you've fixed it with S.F. Edit. You don't have to do this if you don't mind sitting there S.F. Edit'ing a bunch of individual songs. I hope this helps someone out! God, I LOVE good old standard MD!!! Edited December 10, 2006 by UMWOOFWOOFF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 * Moved to MD, NetMD + MDLP section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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