Help looking for someone capable of TOC Cloning / MD recovery around Paris (FR)

[MKSam]

Hi all,

If some parisian / french MD expert can read this, I'm looking for a quick MD recovery via TOC Cloning.

Please contact me here or by MP.

Thanks !

Samuel

[philippeb]

PM sent (I do TOC cloning for legacy md's recorded in SP or MONO).

[philippeb]

For the record, I have been able to restore Samuel's live recording. I cloned a brand new TOC on the blank disc with my MDS-JB920. Unfortunately, the restored sound data appeared to be severely damaged also, almost unreadable, chopped by sound drops. I tried to read the disc on all my Sony decks and portable in turn, alas unsuccessfully. Finally I inserted the disc in my HHB MDP-500, and this great unit read the vast majority of the recording without problem (in particular the two precious songs that Samuel wanted). I made an optical copy of the recording from the MDP-500 to my MDS-JA333ES, et voilà. I must confess that I have been enjoying that :-)

[sfbp]

Good stuff. I answered another post yesterday about drop outs where OP and I both seem to point the finger at media. What manufacturer made the disk?

Do you think this is something like the laser power on the machine that made the recording being underpowered? My suspicion (and what all three of the failing recordings had in common) is that the disk is one with light coloured, semi transparent casings, where you can see the colour of the actual upper surface of the disk through the casing.

[philippeb]

Good stuff. I answered another post yesterday about drop outs where OP and I both seem to point the finger at media. What manufacturer made the disk?

I think it was a Sony Color (purple).

Do you think this is something like the laser power on the machine that made the recording being underpowered?

Yes. I had a similar experience with another Sharp portable unit, which was definitely the cause of bad recordings.

My suspicion (and what all three of the failing recordings had in common) is that the disk is one with light coloured, semi transparent casings, where you can see the colour of the actual upper surface of the disk through the casing.

Sony Color minidiscs have a semi transparent casing indeed.

[sfbp]

I have lots of those, and no trouble with them. So far the most problems with transparent TDK's.

Avrin knows about adjusting laser power IIRC.