----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Sicko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tristan Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:44 PM Subject: Re: (313) mixer advice
> > One cautionary word of advice though. If you hope to record to > > minidisc, > > then dump the song into NetMD, this will not work b/c of copy > > protection > > measures, so you actually need to do it analogue-style. I was a bit > > disappointed by that. > > > > And that is precisely when and where Sony dropped the ball on MD. > Shame, really. Sorry. One last word on this (really). Personally, I think it's important not to make too big of a deal about keeping things in the digital realm, and my views on this are stronger now than ever. For my last mix, I recorded it live to minidisc. For reasons I'm a bit embarassed to share here, I had to excavate the whole thing from the left channel, copy that to the right channel, apply noise reduction, a dash of ultramaximation, then export. The whole process didn't take much longer than the time it took to record the thing in manually (the real drawback in my mind), and I haven't had any complaints about overtly crappy sound quality in that mix, even after it was exported back out into mp3. Also, not a single person even noticed it was in mono (that I know of), and a stereo-carved-in-half-and-recopied mono at that. I think if you actually have two examples lined up a -> b, it's a discernable difference, but otherwise we habituate pretty quickly, and a little bit of fiddling in [insert favorite audio editor with mad pluggins here] will do wonders for fixing anything that may be inadequate with minidisc. Tristan ===== Text/Mixes: http://phonopsia.tripod.com Music: http://www.mp313.com Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Mix in mp3, 'Live in Iowa City' available for a short time from http://phonopsia.isoprax.com
