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Response to Recording Location Sound (mini disc or DAT ???)

from John Ferrick (Ferrick@postmaster.co.uk)
I have another suggestion. I use a GVD300 mini DV Walkman as the Audio recoder. I get 12/32 or 16/48 audio, full timecode, full transfer vie Firewire, etc/ It does need to use Preamps for the mics but makes a handy recorder. There is an interesting situation with MiniDisk in some cases I'd have to say it is better than full non compressed audio expecially if you are going to lay over additional audio, the compression system ATRACS etc eliminates the audio we don't hear, this tends to clean things up a slight bit and allow for more "room" audio wise to add your audio on top etc.

Problem is that Minidisc even it it has digital out it is not uncompressed digital it is regenerated digital from the compressed system. So if for some reason you need to go back to minidisk you are recompressing all over again and then the losses can build and be noticable. Usually we think of digital transfer as lossless and ability to make copies with out problems, but in this case the system takes the ATRAC data and decompresses it to digital first. John Ferrick

(posted 9109 days ago)

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