Pheelinggood Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hi There. I am from Australia and am interested in purchasing a mini disc. The main purpose would be live recordings of african percussion drumming, editing them and then transferring to cd's. Drumming sessions can lasts for hours on hours so would have to have the battery life and quality recording capability for this purpose. Have been looking at the sony's and are not sure if Hi MD is the go just yet. Any advice or recommendations would be apprecated. Also any microphone info appropriate to this situation would be great. Cheers . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hiya! Well, let's see. Hi-MD recorders WOULD enable you to record in uncompressed linear PCM format... but since there are no Hi-MD decks released yet, there would be no way for you to take your music off the MD digitally. (Since the recorders do not have optical outs). I would recommend one of the plain Jane MD recorders. Personally I own a Sony MZ-N10 recorder, and I love it to death, but the battery life, even with the external battery, is not very high for recording. The Sharp IM-DR580 is much better on battery life for recording/playback, and it is a really lovely unit (I want one! T.T) but it lacks an LCD display on the main unit for monitoring recording levels. However, I believe it has automatic recording level adjustment for microphone recordings. Don't quote me on that, though. Anyhow, I recommend each player. The N10 and the DR580 both have loads of features and are really solid units. I'd say the Sharp is a bit better for your purposes (with the longer battery life), but without an LCD on the main unit it might be a bit tricky to monitor recording levels on the remote. I hope this helps! If you want to look at more models, you should check out the equipment browser on http://www.minidisc.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 You wont be able to transfer to a CD in a "pure" way. Untill, and if sony releases sonicstage 2.1 with regular cd burning/wav exporting, you will probebly not be able to edit your files, nor play them on another computer. I dont know exactly how the licensing for ATRAC cd's work in SS2.0/2.1. If you looked at the specs of the battery life on the new HI-MD's youll see that it is lousy. So in your case, i would stay away for now from HI-MD untill the models improve and the upload restriction solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|/|3 Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 I thought Sony is working on a program to export .omgs recorded from an analogue line to .wav format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 It's called the SonicStage WAVE converter, or some such rot. What it does is it converts any analog/microphone recordings done in Hi-SP mode, or 256kbps ATRAC3plus, into linear PCM .wav files. It does not let you get your linear PCM recordings off, which strikes me as bizarre and retarded, since why else would you want to record uncompressed audio unless you intended to edit it or burn CDs with it? Sheesh. Sony likes to give us what we want with one hand and then take it away with the other hand. >.>; Tsk, tsk. Hi-MD could've been a great product... and I'm sure this will help it out. I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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