From: "sourdough5000" <>
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> 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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