Re: [microsound] (Hardware) Fieldrecording?

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

> This is not even a Mac hurdle: no portable consumer (or prosumer, whatever)
> Minidisc recorder can digitally upload to a computer.

I have a $500 system that rips MDs digitally at 5x or so speed. But it's
available only from its maker. Of course you can always *transfer* at
realtime digitally using SPDIF, but it's a pain.

But it's clearly worth waiting 3 months for the new Hi-MD format which
*will* allow this, and double the capacity of existing media, and allow
uncompressed recording, etc.

> But, besides the cost obstacle, there's still the issue of MD compression,
> the absence of a mic preamp, etc.

Absence of a *really clean* preamp, and phantom power, anyway. Of course
the recorders with mic ins have pres, they're just nothing great. You can
use outboard pres (with or without phantom power) of course, this is what
I do -- I use one that's the same size as a few MDs stacked together --
and this is what you'd want to use with most HD/MP3 recorders (Nomad 3,
the new iRiver) I supsect to maximize quality.

I understand that new iRiver *does* have a mic in, I'll be curious to hear
it!

 aaron

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