Re: MiniDisc for field recording

["Jonathan El-Bizri" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>]

I could be mistaken, but I believe I read one of their ads where the
mentioned that the Zoom Palm recorder also uses some kind of ATRAC
compression.

1 minute stereo @ 32khz/16bit = ~ 7.25 megs
7.25 * 17 minutes = 123 megs

They are definitely doing some kind of compression to get the files to be
half the size. At 2 to 1 however, chances are it's lossless, unless I was
correct about the use of the ATRAC codec. It's also only 32khz in
bandwidth....

Check out the Nomad Jukebox from Creative Labs. It will capture to wav, and
depending on your budget, give you up to 40 gigs of space, and firewire, as
well as doubling as a mp3 player. One of the show producers I've worked 
with
uses one to archive all the live shows he does.

bIz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>
To: <loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: MiniDisc for field recording


> Thanks Jon, that's great info.  What I decided to do was something all
> together different and get her a Zoom Palm Recorder.  None of this
> compression stuff.  Solid state, none of this silly tape thing.
> Compact flash cards.  It only gives you 17 minutes with the supplied
> card, but for the stuff she wants to do it's plenty and we can always
> get more/bigger cards.
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
> On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 03:07  PM, Jon Wagner wrote:
>
> > Mark-
> >   I did a head to head comparison of MD and DAT recording (same room,
> > band,
> > and mic) and I can REALLY hear the difference between MD and DAT
> > recordings.
>