At 11:18 PM 2/28/03 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >The >bottle neck will probably be the built in mic preamp, but to get a decent >combination of mic and preamp your are looking at an investment of several >thousand dollars US.
Depends on your golden ears. :) A pair of Oktava O12 mics and a Behringer 1604A mixer with darn good preamps will cost under $500. Even the Rode stereo mic is about $300 now. The real issue is the minidisc. The compression scheme makes it quite good at first-generation live recording (if you don't use its automatic level control). However, almost any post-processing applied to it will emphasize the psychoacoustic tricks of the compression, sometimes rendering it worse than a marginal cassette machine. >Are you sure it works that way round? The Minidisk players I looked at could >only do it the other way round, ie you could use a USB connection to load >files from the computer to the player, but not the other way round. You are correct, unless something has changed recently. >I am not an expert, but I believe the prefered format for digital video >transfers is Firewire (I think that's what it was originally invented for). Firewire was the Mac-centric format, and still the preferred one. However, the newer USB version is comparable in speed. My recommendation for portable recording, other than DAT, is either the hard drive on a computer -- recording with something as simple as CoolEdit (on PC) -- or the Fostex MR-8, which uses compact flash cards. A 256MB card will record about 50 minutes of uncompressed audio. And it's pretty much foolproof, and the flash cards can use a $20 interface for disk emulation through the USB port. Whether any of this is economical in Australia, I don't know. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
