> Gary Sargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyone any idea if it would be possible to use the > > Pitch Control (on a machine like the JB920) to > > store more data on an MD (like the long play mode > > featured on videos)?? > > > > Could you play at say 2x speed on the JB920, record > > it to another MD using a different recorder (so this > > should take up half the space), then play it back > > on the JB920 at half speed using the pitch control. I bought a new JE530 a couple of days ago for EUR205. I tried this out yesterday (and planned to post the results anyways, so here they are) and it works. Here's what I did: I copied a song onto my PC harddisk and used the cool edit demo software to speed it up before I made a digital recording of it using my SBlive sound card. I tried 2x speed (pitch-50%), 4x speed (pitch-75%), 10x speed (pitch-90%) and 20x speed recordings (pitch-95%). The double speed recording (which would allow more than 5 hours of mono audio on a MD) sounded not too bad and would be OK for background music. 4x speed produced a result that sounded a lot like AM radio. At 10x speed you get long wave radio quality and you can still understand most of the lyrics. A MD could last a day at this speed! At 20x speed the lyrics are rather hard to understand. Afterwards I also tried recording a vinyl album at 45 prm and playing the recording with pitch-25%. This produced a good result apart from some lost high frequencies which I realised in a later a<->b comparison. So, yes, you can use LP mode MDs. The hard part is to get the machine to play at double speed. AFAIK you can only get a double speed signal from some "high speed dubbing" double tape decks - or has anyone seen a double speed CD-player? I just hope they're going to include the pitch option into future walkmen releases. On the topic of the JE530: I can confirm that "TOC cloning" and "Super Undo" (holding STOP for 10 seconds) work. Martin ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
