"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:35 -0000, "p.mc" wrote:


Hi all

I'm new to this group and was hoping to get some sound advice from here.

I've been with an amatuer theatre for the last few years providing bespoke
sfx for their productions. I've been using minidisc format for most of the
time untill recentley I invested in a dual cd player
http://www.numark.com/cdn35

The most annoying thing I found was;

1...How to remove the silence bit and still have the unit autopause.
(it's annoying when you have some cues pretty close together, but it
adds 2 to 5 secs before next track can play)
2...How to stop some tracks playing a millisecond of the neaxt track just
before autopausing.

I use mixcraft to edit and produce my sfx, which adds approx 3 sec silence
to the end of the saved file, and CD burning software adds approx 2 sec
silence to the beggining of a track.

Is there a workaround, or can these points be resolved with CD media?


ps
I know dual mp3 players and HDD tech would do the job, but I need to get
the
most using CD media with this unit.

Probably the best thing you could do is move everything into a more
conducive environment for editing. Copy your CD into a PC, then use
virtually any DAW software to perform all the manipulation you want.
You can then burn back to CD with any gaps (or no gaps) that you want.

You may want to release the final versions as MP3, but don't let that
format become a part of the production process; you lose quality at
every stage and it isn't recoverable.


I agree totally. Computer based editing is so vastly superior to any other
method that it's a no-brainer. If I was doing SFX for amateur dramatics
these days I use a laptop, anything else is clunky and difficult by
comparison.

David.