Re: Digital recording

[Crossedout@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/6/99 8:38:15 PM Central Standard Time,
TRUPOLO@rizzoliusa.com writes:

<<  I
 was wondering if anyone has tried mini-discs for this?  Or how about the
 relatively inexpensive stand-alone CD burners? (They're running for
 about $500 these days) >>

I really like the Phillips 2600 cdd burner unit... I have one in a stand 
alone
case, but also able to interface with my pc.... have burned about 150 
discs so
far and only two or three coasters...one because the fates shat on me that
day, one due to a loose cable, and one due to unfamiliar authoring
software.....

I have heard some good things done on minidisc, but look with suspicion at 
the
compression schemes and the jettising of "inaudable"/irrelevant
frequencies/material... that just sounds less than good, when cd's are 
almost
as easy an option.

 
<< I have heard that you can only make 7 copies of a mini-disc master (to
 prevent bootlegging), and I think I heard the same about CD burners.
 This would kill my plan for making a master demo and copying it to
 cassettes. >>


Not really, I think that applies to copying from disc to disc to disc, 
rather
than from a disc to cassette. I don't know about minidiscs, I know that 
some
AUDIO-ONLY cd burners have some of this bullshit intwined in them, that's 
why
I've given up plans to buy one... the computer cd burners, at least mine, 
have
no such limits... I have burned copies of discs, then run off copies for 
other
people without running into copy-protect snags. 

Good luck. 

- Crossedout@aol.com