Re: [microsound] mp3recorder/ something more high end

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

i think this has been posted here already, but Core Sound is offering a 
very interesting little coundcard that can be used in laptops, palmtops 
and desktops. of course, to do really portable stuff, you will need also 
a palmtop computer and an external analog-to-digital converter. might be 
out of some folk's range, but it think it's on a par with a nice [new] 
portable DAT. guess it depends on how serious you take your sound vs how 
starving an artist you actually are...

have a look here:
http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html

best,
derek

derek holzer wrote:

> i just cleaned up some audio that a friend recorded on his MP3 jukebox 
> in Morocco. looking at the spectrographic display of the frequencies, 
> i got a pretty good picture of where the MP3 encoding scheme drops 
> frequencies... you see almost nothing in the high end [the "air"], and 
> then in lower, more "audible" ranges you see that there are certain 
> bands that it cuts, and certain bands that it leaves in. these seem to 
> be pretty logarithmically related, leading me to beleive they had 
> musical harmonics in mind, and not "noisy" broadband sounds [like 
> field recordings] or inharmonic frequencies [like a lot of microsound].
>
> conclusion: not the best choice if you do field recording, make 
> inharmonic music, or want a full range of the sonic spectrum to use 
> for further transformations. the artifacts of MP3 will show up very 
> quickly once you start playing with these sounds digitally.
>
> another option: DAT walkman units aren't too expensive if you can find 
> one used that isn't thrashed. a sony TCD-D7 or D8 can be found for 
> under 400 pretty easily on ebay, for example. then you have the added 
> benfit of an optical digital out, which no portable MD will have.
>
> good luck!
> derek
>
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> hendrik lakeberg wrote:
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>> Thanks for the info. maybe you are right and minidisk is the best 
>> affordable
>> option at the moment. one thing i wonder is about the arcos jukebox mp 3
>> player/recorder. do you think the recording quality is acceptable ?
>> hendrik
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