Joseph, My MZ-R90 hasn't arrived yet, so I can't speak from experience, but I decided on the MZ-R90 rather than the comparable Sharp recorder because the Sharp...
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Doug Von Gausig
doug@...
Jun 3, 2001 3:30 pm
Bleah! Feh! Yucch! Get thee behind me, Satan! Get the picture? OK - for real: If you are working with sounds that you record using a portable recorder, ...
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Marty Michener
marty@...
Jun 4, 2001 2:45 pm
Just in time! Your review came just in time. [I saved you from buying an HHb Portadisk with all my problems; you saved me from the Hoontech!] Thanks, Doug. ...
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Walter Knapp
wwknapp@...
Jun 4, 2001 3:48 pm
... Just a note: your problems with the Portadisc seem to be unique to the particular one you got. Mine continues to run flawlessly. Same with several other...
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Doug Von Gausig
doug@...
Jun 4, 2001 3:53 pm
... You owe me! Now on to other things: I saw all the posts on BirdChat about digital altimeters, especially yours about the Suunto "wrist computers", so I...
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Walter Knapp
wwknapp@...
Jun 4, 2001 5:06 pm
... Note that the altimeter is a barometer, so changes in weather (barometric pressure) will change it. You have to keep resetting it at known points to...
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Fernando González...
gonzalef@...
Jun 4, 2001 7:04 pm
Hi Doug and recordist: I have using a lot of time a Casio watch which has a altimeter and barometer. I am very happy with this watch (560 BM-100 WJ) althoug it...
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Marty Michener
marty@...
Jun 4, 2001 8:26 pm
Doug & all: The Suunto Vector has one incredibly bad design factor, as I hinted in my BirdChat review: It uses 'magnetizable batteries'. When they get...
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KACastelein and DJLau...
birdsong@...
Jun 5, 2001 5:07 am
Hello Folks, We have a Brunton Sherpa digital barimeter/altimeter/wind speed/temp/time. hangs around your neck, lighweight. So far been working real good....
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Joop Nijenhuis
joop.nijenhuis@...
Jun 10, 2001 8:25 pm
... It does sound lots of phoeha and so on. At first you didn't read the faq on their site. What most people do forget is that 24 Bit with 96Khz gives a lot of...
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JVMNATREC@...
Jun 10, 2001 9:17 pm
OK..so why not just use SoundBlaster Live? It seems to work well with CoolEdit? Cheers, John John V. Moore Nature Recordings...
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Klas Strandberg
telinga@...
Jun 10, 2001 9:29 pm
Dear all! If you need a sound-card, look at http://www.soniccontrol.com/gearguide/soundcards/ The ADB Multiwav cards perform excellently and are very easy to...
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Stuart Fairbairn
fbairn@...
Jun 11, 2001 6:37 am
I am considering buying one of these and would be glad of any experience or comments from members. I realise it only has a 2 sec pre recording when in Pause...
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Walter Knapp
wwknapp@...
Jun 11, 2001 2:43 pm
... In pro MD units it's really a choice between it and the HHb Portadisc, which is the one I have. Compared to the HHb Portadisc it's reported to be a real...
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Rob Danielson
type@...
Jun 11, 2001 3:07 pm
Stuart-- I can add a little info. I ran some high gain recording tests on a PMD650 hoping the fancier, balanced preamp would lower inherent noise and it wasn't...
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Doug Von Gausig
doug@...
Jun 11, 2001 3:15 pm
Your excellent and thorough paragraph below emphasizes what I said in my opening, which was: "If you are working with sounds that you record using a portable...
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Doug Von Gausig
doug@...
Jun 11, 2001 3:16 pm
... Yes, it does - even on my multi-tasking machine. Mine just happened to fail (the second SB Live! to fail for me), so I thought I was "upgrading" to better...
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Fernando González...
gonzalef@...
Jun 11, 2001 3:35 pm
Yes I have using a Sound Blaster Live MP3+ with cool edit and they work well. I have not had any problem. Maybe the only "problem" is that i do not know how to...
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RichPeet@...
Jun 12, 2001 6:49 pm
This is my evaluation of the LNS field class from last week. I want to submit my evaluation of this years LNS field course, but did not wish to do so at the...
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mohsen namakian
m_namakian@...
Jun 13, 2001 3:43 pm
Hi to all; I'm a researcher and a new member of naturerecordists, researching on bird sounds and their effects on human psychology. Fortunately, i have found...
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Joop Nijenhuis
joop.nijenhuis@...
Jun 13, 2001 9:11 pm
... Soundblaster can't work with ASIO drivers, so latency of the card is very high. This means that when you do something with the software you will hear the...
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Joop Nijenhuis
joop.nijenhuis@...
Jun 13, 2001 9:11 pm
... I did some tests with it and it didn't pass the test for nature recordings specs. Metering too small, powerconsumption too high and distortion too high. No...
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JVMNATREC@...
Jun 14, 2001 4:44 am
Dear Joop, OK, but why don't I see all this noise and distortion on the spectral view of CoolEdit? I am not being argumentative, I just want to understand! ...
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olarte1@...
Jun 14, 2001 6:29 pm
Hello, I've been recording colombian birds for 12 years already. I've done most of my work in the Choco(pacific) and the coffee(central) regions. But I also...
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Sjoerd Mayer
smayer@...
Jun 15, 2001 11:05 am
Dear Luis, I had exactly the same questions as you. I also had about a hundred tapes, all recorded in Bolivia. That was in 1993, Windows 3.1 days. My enormous...
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Paul Coopmans
coopmans@...
Jun 15, 2001 2:58 pm
Hi all, Does anyone know of any affordable, but still good quality minidisc copiers (e.g. that allow to make an exact digital copy of the original without ...
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Paul Coopmans
coopmans@...
Jun 15, 2001 2:59 pm
... They'll be useless for spectral analysis though ... Cheers, Paul...
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Ranft, Richard
richard.ranft@...
Jun 15, 2001 3:54 pm
I don't think cheap ones exist. The one we use here at NSA costs about $4000 and is a Denon DN-045R MD replicator. It copies at 3.5 x real-time and bypasses...
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Luis Olarte
olarte1@...
Jun 15, 2001 4:50 pm
Hello all , and thank you for your answers. It seems that CoolEdit is by far the prefered editing software. So I will follow your advice and get it. Sjoerd, ...
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Walter Knapp
wwknapp@...
Jun 15, 2001 5:02 pm
... Sony also has dual decks that can do this copy, at about the same price range. Their pro audio website lists them. I take the approach of pulling direct...
