Topic: My Own Personal Taping HELL

[Crimson]

well armen
i mean
toolishness aside
you have no taste in music, anyway

no egg salad?...how about pesto/moooooozeralla/tomato on fresh italian bread?...mmm...vegetarian heaven

[mattb]

I bet the dropouts was vibration from the speakers! I've seen this before, even with MDs not on the speakers but being on a hard surface. The vibrations done't need to be "big" but it seems the right frequency seems to cause this.
I've also seens issues with cheap Maxell and Minidisco Robot MD blanks. Maybe you experienced both problems?
Skip the DAT and get a JB3 (if you don't mind using a PC)!

[Simp-Dawg]

that sounds much tastier...i'm not a veggie but i can dig the cuisine more often than not.
eggplant parm is a personal fav.

[Crimson]

PC is the devil...wish my ipod could record

[busknuckle]

fwiw...

I used to run md. When I had a Sony MZ-R70, I had drop outs with any slight movement of the recorder. It really wasn't very good for taping. I moved to a Sharp MT-77 (Japanese version of MT-877) and found little to no problems with "normal" movement. The ONLY time I had drop outs using the Sharp....when I re-used a minidisc.

I have had the recorder stop without any explanation. Check through your manual and see if you find any possible explanations. Have you visited any of the md boards? While they seem to be mostly full of bad advice...there may be someone who has more experience with your particular units and could offer a solution.

[firmdragon]

one of my friends knows your pain.  he once taped aud and sbd and both cut because he taped too much of the soundcheck.

out of curiousity why tape both stacks?  i'm guessing you're trying to go for that dual source/one in each ear super-duper stereo effect, but wouldn't it sound funny with 2 different type of mics, (there's also no garuantee of a stereo mix from the board)? should have just plugged the sonics into the cam.

[Ed.]

oOo and btw...taping mics to the speakers rocks, if you ask me

Imagine this: a band playing on a combined stage/room that is no bigger than a medium-sized living room.  No sbd, no pa, just 3-4 abused-looking on speakers  on the stage and enough drunken college students cram-packed together to create hostility.  The ceiling is 10 ft. high and looks like it will collapse under the weight of a nyc subway rat.  

Taping scenario: hell.  
Taping mics to speakers and sitting on the floor in front of the stage curled up in a little ball to conserve room in the venue next to skimpy goth-dressed freshman college girls you hope will grope you: priceless, with a damn fine tape to boot.

if there is no pa what speakers are you micing, individual amps?  also, if the place is that small do they even mic all the instruments, seems like they'd just mic the drums and the vox and if your mics are connected to the pa speakers thats all you'd hear pretty much.

i dunno, i guess i'm confused.

[Crimson]

(yah speshuled, there are only 2 members in the band)

Merci Bill...hitting up some experienced md tapers as well.

Firmdragon...I was taping both stacks to try and prevent the same thing that happened to my one recorder on Sat. night, sonics into the cam wouldnt have worked (them badboys need a mic-in shimmy-shimmy unless the venue is a loudness I have yet to encounter)

[Crimson]

SO

New Sony MDs and New non-rechargable batteries didnt give me any problems when i BLASTED music this morning with the md's and mics both resting on the speakers, tried it with the subwoofer too (both pretty much matching the tiny bar I was in Mon night).
I'm hopeful and confident it was either the md's or the batteries

...I did get a noise complaint at 9am though

[Ed.]

hahaha, +t on the noise complaint, thanks for clearing up the thing about the stacks...i know around here they just mic the drums and the vocals and i was thinking if you did a stack tape of that it woulda sounded like butt.

[RJPass]

IF the mic's were taped to the speakers, and the MD set close to the speakers, you'd get vibration, and hence, the MD deck will skip, the lense will skip, and the recordings stops automatically because the MD cant handle it.  It's weak sauce like that  =P

Like someone said earlier.  Shoulda just hooked the mics to the cam

[Sean Gallemore]

I've heard one decent sounding DSM/6s recording, and it was recorded to a cassette deck!

[Tim]

did someone finally convince this kid that putting his md on the PA speakers is not a good idea?

[Chad817]

I ran into similar problems running my MD deck for a friend's band.  I was recording out of a mixer that was sitting pretty close to the bass cabinet.  It shut off 2 or 3 times during the show...had to keep checking on it.

[Sean Gallemore]

did someone finally convince this kid that putting his md on the PA speakers is not a good idea?

he's a Tool taping omni user.  That's just what all of them do. :-P