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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: kingbean on August 21, 2006, 06:46:33 AM
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Hi everyone...
I was recently transferring a show I recorded onto my PC from the MD and upon playback (of the .wav) I noticed a couple of split second audio drop-outs (a couple of frames). I played it back again on the actual MD (to see if it was a recorder or PC drop-out) and noticed that the empty spots had changd slightly.
I rewound and played it again and yes, they were again slightly different. i played it once more and it played fine, but dropped out later on, so I was able to mish-mash what I had to get a complete transfer, but I was wondering what may be causing this?
is it posible that this particular section of my minidisc is somehoow damged?
It is a Sony MD (not HIi-MD) and all up had probably 2hr30 recorded in SP2 and the only time this occured was around the 4 minute mark of the second band.
Any ideas???
Hopefully that has made enough sense to get some help!
Cheers.
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are you using sonicstage to transfer (digital transfer)
or are u using line out(on the md) to line in(on ur comp)? (analog transfer)
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Hi everyone...
I was recently transferring a show I recorded onto my PC from the MD and upon playback (of the .wav) I noticed a couple of split second audio drop-outs (a couple of frames). I played it back again on the actual MD (to see if it was a recorder or PC drop-out) and noticed that the empty spots had changd slightly.
I rewound and played it again and yes, they were again slightly different. i played it once more and it played fine, but dropped out later on, so I was able to mish-mash what I had to get a complete transfer, but I was wondering what may be causing this?
is it posible that this particular section of my minidisc is somehoow damged?
It is a Sony MD (not HIi-MD) and all up had probably 2hr30 recorded in SP2 and the only time this occured was around the 4 minute mark of the second band.
Any ideas???
Hopefully that has made enough sense to get some help!
Cheers.
I have had similar problems with my old Sond MD-r70. No clue why (obviously going line-out to PC). Sometimes it would be enough that I could patch the skip without any residual traces, other times that would not be the case.
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I'm not sure the mechanics of a minidisk player. It is obvioiusly having issues with the data being read. Maybe the integrity of the data on the disk itself or the reading mechanism. I can suggest though that since you say the error moves around... In the spots that get sketchy record multiple passes. Chop it up and splice it together. I've done it with DAT transfers. If your lucky it will read enough data that you can put it together 100%.
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thats the units way of telling you to get a hi-md. ;)
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In the spots that get sketchy record multiple passes. Chop it up and splice it together.
Yeah that's what I've ended up doing. Bit of a pain but it works!
As you said, I think it may be something to do with the integrity (that's the word I was looking for!) of this particular section of data. The question though is why??? ???
And I am transferring lineout > Cool Edit.
Thanks for all the help so far!
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Dust on the lense can cause that too.
-K
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Dust on the lense can cause that too.
-K
Probably explains why the spot moves, too
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That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the help, I'll try and clean it out a bit in there. I guess it could also be the disc as the majority of my discs play fine.
Cheers all!!!!
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That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the help, I'll try and clean it out a bit in there. I guess it could also be the disc as the majority of my discs play fine.
Cheers all!!!!
Shutters on blanks can open accedentally and dust can get in there and dust in the recorder can get inside the disc when it's inside too.
-K