Topic: New improved microtrack (MT II)

[anhisr]

Mine has left Wisconsin and is on its way to St Louis.

[anhisr]

Got it this morning.  Charging the battery right now.  During the set up I noticed that when you put the unit on hold, the light turns off.  I can not find a way to have the light on while on hold.  It has a test media to see if you CF card works.  Will not have time to play with it until tomorrow.

[Chilly Brioschi]

Mine has Secaucus, NJ in it's sights           

Hoping for tomorrow, but expecting Monday.   
I'm almost glad that I'm not planning to tape this weekend.

[mblindsey]

I successfully recorded Dinosaur JR with the MT II last night (12/13/07) with no problems.  A couple of notes:

1.  I charged the battery overnight and took the thing straight to the show.  I do not have an external battery for it yet.  I noticed that the battery indicator went down 1 "tick" in just the few minutes I was scrolling around the menu and formatting a 4 GB CF card.  I thought it should still be showing a full charge after 10mins of use, but I guess I expect rechargeable batteries to be better after a few charges.  It went another 1 1/2 hours and the battery meter was at half.

2.  I didn't fully trust the device, so I just fed it the s/pdif from my D8.  There was a V3 in front of the D8.  It recorded the 16/44.1 *.wav with no probs.

3.  I plugged it into my PC this morning, WinXP recogized it, and I transferred the *.wav over with no problems.

4.  I used a SanDisk Ultra II 4GB CF card purchased from Costco.

Next time, I'll remove the D8 from the equation.

--Michael

[Rick]

2.  I didn't fully trust the device, so I just fed it the s/pdif from my D8.  There was a V3 in front of the D8.  It recorded the 16/44.1 *.wav with no probs.

Next time, I'll remove the D8 from the equation.

--Michael

Can you try just recording something at home using the V3? anhisr reported having troubles recording 24bit/96 with his unit and a V3.

[mblindsey]

Can you try just recording something at home using the V3? anhisr reported having troubles recording 24bit/96 with his unit and a V3.

Absolutely...I just saw that other thread.  I'll try to do that tonight, and post my results there.

--Michael 

[anhisr]

 

[Chilly Brioschi]

Mine has Secaucus, NJ in it's sights           

Hoping for tomorrow, but expecting Monday.   
I'm almost glad that I'm not planning to tape this weekend.

Changed my mind when the MTII landed on the doorstep this afternoon     
Taping t'mrw, will test 24/96 around the shop ASAP

Currently charging the battries... waiting ... waiting...

[JoeKiller]

Could you please do a seamless autosplit test too?  That would be most excellent.

[OFOTD]

Could you please do a seamless autosplit test too?  That would be most excellent.

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,95661.msg1274472.html#msg1274472

[taperwheeler]

Hi,

I've been taping for about 10 years but new to this forum.  I've always recorded to DAT but with the constant troubles with my Sony digi cable, and higher cost of tapes, have ordered the MT II.  These forums have been great and I've gotten a lot of useful info.  I do however have a question regarding CF cards.  I just ordered a 2 gig Sandisk.  I've noticed that most people have indicated using the Sandisk Ultra II cards.  Am I going to have compatability issues? 

Wheeler

[anhisr]

The MT II has a function to check your card and see if it is ok. 

[Rick]

Just read this in the online manual

If you are recording a WAV file, and your recording exceeds the 2GB file size limit of CF or Microdrive media, an additional file will
automatically be created with virtually no time lost between files.

I'm sure someone has tested this? Virtually and Seamless seem different to me.

[taperwheeler]

I read that too, but believe it has an asterisk and indicates that when recording mp3 files there may be some loss.  Someone piosted earlier in the thread and said that their wav file was seemless.  I'll have my mt2 by the weekend and will be testing.  Will post my finds.

Wheeler

[Brian Skalinder]

Someone piosted earlier in the thread and said that their wav file was seemless.

Don't have time to go back and find it, but I believe the post indicated it was audibly seamless, not necessarily truly seamless from a data loss perspective (the latter was untested, if I recall correctly).