Dan Dugan wrote:
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> When I loaded the disc into Pro Tools and jacked it up 10 dB I got an
> unpleasant surprise. There was just audible above the mic hiss some
> clearly digital hash that would come and go periodically. From the
> timing of it I'm sure it was when the data was being written to the
> disc. (Did you know that MD recorders don't record continuously? The
> disc only spins about 1/5 of the time.)
I ran into something similar a few months ago with my Sony MZ-NHF800
Hi-MD recorder, when trying to power a pair of 183s externally from a
9-volt battery. It added a series of low-level clicks to the audio
every few seconds, exactly at points where I noted disk activity during
test recordings -- presumably writing data to the media. So yea, it
appears MD recorders buffer the incoming data stream and dump to disk
periodically. (I went back to PIP and the clicks disappeared.)
Curt Olson
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