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Re: What do you recommend

Subject: Re: What do you recommend
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:05:26 -0500
From: "sourdough5000" <>

> 
> Hi Walt
> 
> Thank you for explaining your setup. I wonder if you could give us 
> what you equipment you use to get the Minidisc recordings onto your 
> hard drive of your computer?  And do you store them as .wav files?  
> Does anyone else have other ways of converting minidisc recordings to 
> burned CDs that they are happy with?  Thanks

As I noted I use a HHb Portadisc to record. That has a full set of I/O, 
so I can choose. What I do is transfer using the optical digital output 
of the Portadisc into a Roland UA-30 USB interface. (this is a older 
model, no longer in production) That simply passes the digital 16bit 44k 
signal through the USB audio format unchanged into the Mac G4. I pick 
that stream up with Peak and record it to a AIFF file. I archive the 
original minidisc, the AIFF files on 3.5" optical disks, and a audio CD 
of the originals. I will normally only edit to prune off the unwanted 
end parts before storing the masters.

I have 7 64 gig or bigger Ultra 160 SCSI drives, 1 128 gig IDE drive, 2 
optical drives, and two burners hooked to my G4. So, I have enough room 
to keep all my audio on hard disk for convenience. Though I don't count 
that as archive. When I was producing the Georgia frog CD, I filled one 
64 gig just with the various edited files for that. It was very helpful 
then to have the high speed hard disks. I'm going to miss the speed when 
I eventually move to the next generation Macs that use slower hard disks.

Other than the above, any audio I produce will be edited, filtered or 
whatever as appropriate before making a audio CD or mp3 files. In either 
case these edited files are no longer considered masters for farther work.

I use Roxio's Jam to master audio CD's direct from the AIFF files. Using 
either a Yamaha burner or the Apple superdrive to burn.

AIFF is the Apple and Unix equivalent of .wav. If the Microsoft monopoly 
continues to take over everything I may eventually convert the format, 
which is basically just a resave out of Peak.

The other piece of editing software I use is TC Works SparkXL. They have 
discontinued the product, it is my main filtering setup. It's much 
better than Peak for filtering tasks, but not near as convenient for 
more mundane tasks. I also use Elemental Software's Equium, Firium and 
Neodynium plug in filters.

Walt




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