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Re: [ARSCLIST] Sony CD Recorder--help needed
At 09:30 PM 2008-03-17, Tom Fine wrote:
For what it's worth, I've been very happy with my Tascam CDRW900,
but it doesn't get as much use recording as I imagined. It gets used
more for playing background music while I do file-chopping and
book-keeping work in the studio. Once in a while someone just wants
"a CD of this tape" and it's easiest to do a direct feed to the Tascam.
I'm with Tom on this one! I have a Sony ICF2002 for the odd
listening, or I pull something up from my files and listen through
the main monitors.
I first did my transfers to a pair of Panasonic SV-3800 DATs. A bit
later, I did them to a pair of CDR-W33s. Now I do everything to the
computer. I haven't recorded on the CDR-W33 in my studio since I put
it in, except perhaps once to record a radio show from the tuner.
My other one is on long-term loan to my church until we decide what
we're really going to do--either a CF recorder or direct to PC. Both
have plusses and minuses.
At the end of the day, the church will have a file system similar to
mine. They've already agreed in principal to put a second server at a
nearby but non-attached structure and in the remodel are assigned us
a media room in the church basement. It may be easier to put a CF
recorder into the church sound booth and bring the CF card down to
the media room and copy it onto the server than to burden the booth
operator with running a PC. I did both Palm Sunday services on one 4
GB CF card in my SD 722 with almost an hour left over, so a few 4 GB
CF cards ought to meet any need.
The best use I can recall in the last half dozen years with the CD
burners were the work stations I helped set up at an oral history
collection that had > 5000 tapes in great danger of not lasting due
to long-term poor storage and lowest-bidder purchasing back in the
day. We set up reel-to-reel and cassette "islands" each with one
player and two CDR-W33s and a pair of headphones. Volunteers staffed
these and did QC on the fly. It worked for almost no money compared
to outsourcing.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.