Re: CD recorders

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

At 11:01 AM -0500 1/14/98, Adam Levin wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Kim Flint wrote:
>
>> uh, did you guys somehow miss the point that this particular Philips box
>> records directly to both CD-R and CD-RW? With both digital and analog 
>audio
>> I/O? And only costs $600? CD-RW media is expensive now because it is 
>new,
>> same as CD-R disks were three years ago. So you could use the cheap 
>CD-R now
>> and switch over whenever the price and extra convenience of CD-RW makes 
>you
>> feel happy.
>>
>> For me, as someone beginning to contemplate a serious home studio, I had
>> been wondering when abouts I should seriously consider getting a DAT 
>deck
>> for master mix downs, live recordings, etc. I would much rather get
>> something that can go directly to CD. With that I can easily listen to 
>it in
>> the car, in the boom box at the park, in the stereo, at a friend's 
>house,
>> etc, none of which I can do with DAT or hard disk. I can store it in a
>> shoebox in the garage and not worry about tape oxidation. I can pop it 
>in
>> the computer and pull up the data directly and easily. Why would I ever
>> consider DAT now?
>
>As someone who just bought a CD-RW drive, I'll tell you why. With a DAT,
>if you screw up, you can just hit rewind and start again with minimum
>fuss. Or if you want to pause for a few seconds (or days) and then
>continue recording where you left off, you can. With CD-RW, you only get
>one pass through. If you screw up, you have to perform an erase on the
>media and start all over again. There's no hitting a pause button while
>you switch guitars or your drummer leaves his throne to visit the ...um...
>throne.

Ah, I didn't realize that CD-RW works that way too, like CD-R I guess. Well
that sucks! Oh well, I guess I'm back to where I was before, wondering if I
need a DAT machine now.....

kim

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