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7+ hour recordings in Hi-MD (was Re: ordering gear in Australia

Subject: 7+ hour recordings in Hi-MD (was Re: ordering gear in Australia
From: "John Hartog"
Date: Wed May 31, 2006 11:07 am (PDT)
Well, I said I'd report back so I might as well, but I didn't really
have time to do much except to notice that it looks like clean breaks
between tracks. The recording I made, I had stopped at about 7 hours
15 minutes, so not a full disc worth, but I'm wondering if the full
7:55 h:m converted to wav will conveniently fit on one 4.7GB DVD for
archive.

-John Hartog

> Neat trick John! Also, the "divide" tool  in SS can be used to cut-
up
> a single 7 hour 55 minute Hi-SP oma file into sections before they
> are converted to .wav.  None can be longer than 182 minutes as to
not
> exceed the 2GB limit size for PC.  This is one of the neatest
things
> about HiMD-- being able to hide a small $200 recorder in a place
for
> an 8 hour recording at ATRAC3+ quality. The omas can be recombined
in
> SS too. Rob D.
>
> At 7:06 PM +0000 5/30/06, John Hartog wrote:
> >Graham,
> >When recording in Hi-SP for longer recording, if you set the Time
Mark
> >for 60 minutes the result will be seven more manageably sized wav
files
> >(at least it works that way with the rh10). I'm not sure if the
> >resulting files can be pieced back together seemlessly, but I'll
try it
> >tonight and report back.
> >
> >-John Hartog
> >
> >
> >>  Rob D. has mentioned to me I will need a bit of RAM to handle
7Hour
> >>  Hi-SP files.  I have 288MB which sounds enough to me.  But I'm
> >guessing
> >>  the 2GB and 8GB hard drives on the Win98 machine might cause me
> >>  problems.  On the other hand the wav files never touch the
Windows
> >>  machine (they go straight over the network to my linux
workstation)
> >so
> >>  perhaps that will be okay too.  Sonicstage 3.4  seems to really
creak
> >>  along with frequent long pauses for breath.  But the actual
importing
> >>  and conversion goes quite smoothly.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
> >Klas Strandberg
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Rob Danielson
> Peck School of the Arts
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
>







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