In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes:

In article ,
Richard Robinson wrote:
Have a dig on eBay for a hi-fi type Sony minidisc recorder. Record you
disk, then take the recorder to your PC and record it using something
like Audacity.

Minidisc ? It'd still need digitising, no ?

MiniDisc is digital. Some have digital out so could transfer to the
computer in the digital domain if you have a soundcard which accepts this.
But the data compression system MiniDisc uses is rather old and may not be
the best.

Weren't all the UK Minidisc recorders (and possibly EU ones too)
restricted to not having digital out? I looked for one to transfer
some live recordings of my band from and couldn't find one.

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Mike Fleming

In article ,
Mike Fleming wrote:
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes:

In article ,
Richard Robinson wrote:
Have a dig on eBay for a hi-fi type Sony minidisc recorder. Record
you disk, then take the recorder to your PC and record it using
something like Audacity.

Minidisc ? It'd still need digitising, no ?

MiniDisc is digital. Some have digital out so could transfer to the
computer in the digital domain if you have a soundcard which accepts
this. But the data compression system MiniDisc uses is rather old and
may not be the best.

Weren't all the UK Minidisc recorders (and possibly EU ones too)
restricted to not having digital out? I looked for one to transfer some
live recordings of my band from and couldn't find one.

Dunno them all. I've certainly seen toslink out on them. But MiniDisc was
only ever designed as a domestic format - never as a mastering one.
Although it did find uses in broadcast, as rather better than things like
NAB carts.

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*Procrastinate now

Dave Plowman London SW
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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But MiniDisc was
only ever designed as a domestic format - never as a mastering one.


Why on earth would anyone want to master to Minidisc:-)))


Although it did find uses in broadcast, as rather better than things like
NAB carts.

They were ubiquitous in radio. I still have a Denon DN M991R
"professional" minidisc recorder, (a very impressivge and well built
machine with balanced analogue in and out on XLRs and AES/EBU
in and out also. It has a hard wired remote and a conector
for keyboard) It was consigned long ago to the glass
cabinet together with the 2" editing block and Chinagraph pencil.

http://erecycleronline.com/audio-vid...-is-57592.html

Comparison with even a 38cm/s tape master showed the
mindisc format to be rather dull and lifeless. lacking in lustre,
- high woodwinds, cymbals, and strings in particular.

Iain