Re: [microsound] about samples

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:57 AM -0700 9/19/02, pizo meyer wrote:
> speaking of field recordings...I would just die to get my hands on a portable
> DAT. Anybody know whats going on with those things. Wil they be 
> around much longer, are they still expensive? Am I better off with a 
> Mini-disk recorder and a mic?

To the last question, yes.  DAT technically sounds better - 
uncompressed audio being better than the ATRAC-compressed audio of MD 
- but in practice the MD portables and media on the market are far 
cheaper, have features far better for field recording (robustness of 
machines and media, editing, relative imperviousness to climate, long 
battery life, long-play recording, etc), and in some cases have 
better-sounding D/A converters than one finds in the DAT portables. 
A good MD portable, a good stereo mic, and a pile of blanks will 
still cost less than a DAT portable.  It is amusing that both were 
intended as consumer formats...
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Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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