i picked up a 6GB jukebox a few months ago and have done some recording with it. it records in uncompressed wav format at 16/44 or 16/48 - i use 16/44 since that keeps it cd ready without resampling. the stereo line-in is a 1/8" mini headphone and the signal is therefore analog. there is also no mic pre-amp, so plugging a mic into it would require a pre-amped mic, or the signal would be pretty low and require heavy normalization. there are 'gain' and 'boost' settings within the jukebox, but the higher you go with them, the more noise they introduce to the recording, so i keep them both set at 0. all of the taping i have done with it has been directly off a multi-track mixing board when jamming at my friend's studio. i use the headphone out on the board to the nomad's line-in through a male-male 1/8" cord. with the board's headphone volume set at 5, i get VERY good recordings, noticeably much more 'hissless' than 2-track cassettes recorded off the same board at the same time. so if you can patch out of the soundboard into the nomad at 16/48, the results would theoretically at least equal those of the analog in on a DAT. there may be some discrepancies due to the quality of the A/D converters and other hardware components involved, but mainly what is lacking on the nomad is VU meters and a simple record button - right now it requires a couple of steps to 'arm' and then record. it is also not so good at cataloging recordings (track naming issues) and it splits every recording in to 112 MB chunks - they stitch back together seamlessly, but it could be an issue with some. i find it's best to hit record once and let it go until you're done, rather than trying to edit while recording. provided the drive is not full of mp*s, the 6GB drive provides over 8 hours recording time at 16/44. the nomad takes any standard laptop hard drive (2.5") though it must be formatted before installation, so upgrades abound - i've seen 40GB jukeboxes on ebay and the limit seems to be the current limit of 2.5" drives. the firmware is upgradeable and Creative is fixing bugs and advancing features with each new release - there is even an infra-red port on the front which is not currently supported but presumably will be in the future. transferring the recordings to a pc (or mac) is done with usb, so it's all digital, but takes about 1 hour for every 2 hours recorded. the nomad jukebox 2 (coming soon) will be firewire. now if only we could get them to do a 24/96 version...
useful links: recording tests (old site)- http://www.kuren.org/jukebox/ jukebox forums- http://www.nomadness.net/ Creative official site- http://www.nomadworld.com/ hope this helps without too much confusion! andy wob- ph94-4-20 for 2 Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
