Hi Dominique,
I know all about delay myself.
It's always frustrating when recordings get lost. You just want to
know how to handle this problem. TOC and MD are very picky sometimes.
There are occasions in which I remember it seems necessary to manually
write the TOC before you proceed (recording or ejecting a disc.),
because some recorders forget to do so themselves once in a while. Not
very scientific either, however not uncommon. The data could actually
be on the disc, but accessing it can be a disaster.
I have no experience with Portadiscs but Sony and Pioneer -though
consumergear- encounter the same problems. The Tascam MD-801R (MKII),
pro-editing machine, tackles this (U)TOC problem most of the time and
*can* recover data from discs 'recorded' in other equipment. The
science behind it? Well, I cannot tell, but I received a lot of kisses
for recovery work ;)
I live nextdoor (in Amsterdam) ;) So we could meet in the future
maybe. Send an MD if you like. Recently I discovered your site and the
beautiful songbird recordings of yours. I am very interested in
birdsong, lately. Especially blackbird, nightingale, wren etc. Only a
pity for the spring being so late this year. And...I have a passion
for wind through structures, grass and especially wind through pine
trees, so if you have something for me like that online (or even on MD
:-P) I would be most grateful.
All the best from Amsterdam,
Jaap
--- In "Laloux, Dominique"
<> wrote:
>
> Hi Jaap,
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying to your offer to try and repair some of
> my damaged MDs.
> I am indeed very interested in having some of these MDs repaired. Not
> that the content is so important (only bird recordings) but some were, I
> know, good recordings.
>
> Where do you live ?
>
> I have already replied to Aaron as well, and I may send him a MD in the
> near future, just to try and have it repaired.
>
> Strange, though, that my Portadisc would do that so regularly.
> Particularly as, besides that problem, it works really well ! I
> regularly record school concerts, and I have no problem at all. But what
> I have noticed is that this will happen when I get ready to record
> another track on a disk on which the TOC has already been written. In
> one occasion, I had the impression that it happened because I had stop
> recording mode and then gone back to it too quickly... But that is of
> course not a very scientific observation.
>
> Best regards from Brussels,
>
> Dominique
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > On Behalf Of Jaap de Jong
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:57 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Damaged MiniDiscs
> >
> >
> > --- In "Dominique Laloux"
> > <d.laloux@> wrote:
> >
> > > I have several MDs that have been damaged. In some cases, the first
> > 1 or 2
> > > tracks are unreadable, in other cases, more tracks are unreadable.
> > All were
> > > recorded with a Portadisc. It looks like the problem is with the
> > Table of
> > > Content
> > > Does anyone know about a more affordable service somewhere in the
> > world ?
> >
> > Hi Dominique,
> >
> > You could try to find somebody with a Tascam MD-801R. At my
> > radiostation we used to recover data for reporters who brought in nice
> > material which unfortunately did not 'seem' to exist anymore. In about
> > 75 percent however we could recover most of the recordings and even
> > more ancient material which was erased before. Also be aware that some
> > recorders don't take some brands of discs. The life-span of discs, or
> > say the re-recording cycle, is likely to differ as well.
> >
> > I might be able to have your disc(s) recovered at low (or no) cost,
> > however, as I mentioned, there is a limited degree of success.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Jaap
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Microphones are not ears,
> > Loudspeakers are not birds,
> > A listening room is not nature."
> > Klas Strandberg
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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