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Devilfire
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coloradojay
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Yup
yup. Good topic.
yup. Good topic.
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jake-owa
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Yeah, I know, I'll just start topics with a simple gear model number and let other people talk about it....
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Devilfire
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i was basically asking if anyone on here uses any MD gear, since it isnt really a popular medium,
most use DATs , CD burners.... why not MD ....?
most use DATs , CD burners.... why not MD ....?
coloradojay
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Oh, OK
OK, since I was bein a smartass, and I actually understand your idea now, I'll reply seriously.
I mostly use CDs and harddrives, but I picked up a little Sony MD at a pawn shop for 50 bucks last year just to record live shows.
For me, I didn't really want to get into another format since I've got CD and MP3 players everywhere (my car, my ghetto blaster, all computers home and work, etc), but I decided that minidisk was smaller, and cheaper than DAT for bootlegs, and higher quality than tape (at least on low end handheld stuff you could smuggle into a show).
The only downside it that you've got to get the levels right for the mic you are using. I have a couple of shows that picked up some nasty digital distortion, where I would have been better off with tape- but for my personal uses, it's still better than nothing.
Now that I've got the MD player I sometimes use it for impromptu jams too where multitracking is too much setup, or just unnecessary. I was pretty surprized how skip-proof the little sony is for recording while bumping your way around a live show.
There is also a *whole forum* here on multi-track MD, with two whole thriving threads. It's almost as cool as the Echo ...err.... umm.... Vocal forum.
https://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?forumid=33
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OK, since I was bein a smartass, and I actually understand your idea now, I'll reply seriously.
I mostly use CDs and harddrives, but I picked up a little Sony MD at a pawn shop for 50 bucks last year just to record live shows.
For me, I didn't really want to get into another format since I've got CD and MP3 players everywhere (my car, my ghetto blaster, all computers home and work, etc), but I decided that minidisk was smaller, and cheaper than DAT for bootlegs, and higher quality than tape (at least on low end handheld stuff you could smuggle into a show).
The only downside it that you've got to get the levels right for the mic you are using. I have a couple of shows that picked up some nasty digital distortion, where I would have been better off with tape- but for my personal uses, it's still better than nothing.
Now that I've got the MD player I sometimes use it for impromptu jams too where multitracking is too much setup, or just unnecessary. I was pretty surprized how skip-proof the little sony is for recording while bumping your way around a live show.
There is also a *whole forum* here on multi-track MD, with two whole thriving threads. It's almost as cool as the Echo ...err.... umm.... Vocal forum.
https://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?forumid=33
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Devilfire
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i support MD fully!
i release all my projects on MD format
i release all my projects on MD format
coloradojay
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MD missed the bus
Weren't they releasing albums on MD at some point? Or do they still?
It seems like it just never really took off. The next trip after CD is either MP3 CD or DVD, minidisc seems to have missed the bus for music distribution. Mostly it seems to be used for personal mixtapes, or digital dupes/archives. It's got it's limited uses but at least it's digital.
We got a minidisc copy from a studio that did an instrumental track for a vocal group I was in once. It sat in a box as a digital archive and we always used the cassette or CD depending on where we were singing. None of us 5 in the group even owned a minidisc player then.
The final frontier for media is going to be non-volitile memory like compact flash, but it's too phreakin expensive right now.
Weren't they releasing albums on MD at some point? Or do they still?
It seems like it just never really took off. The next trip after CD is either MP3 CD or DVD, minidisc seems to have missed the bus for music distribution. Mostly it seems to be used for personal mixtapes, or digital dupes/archives. It's got it's limited uses but at least it's digital.
We got a minidisc copy from a studio that did an instrumental track for a vocal group I was in once. It sat in a box as a digital archive and we always used the cassette or CD depending on where we were singing. None of us 5 in the group even owned a minidisc player then.
The final frontier for media is going to be non-volitile memory like compact flash, but it's too phreakin expensive right now.