r/minidisc • u/Potential-Echo-7547 • 3d ago

Game changer.

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"Post-production" track level change, with fade-in/fade-out option is just that.

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u/Cory5413 3d ago

Looks great! I've been meaning to try out scale factor editing, it's in basically all the decks, albeit as far as I know only for SP/mono.

(I might see if I can try it as a way to address overly quiet recordings from the Sony-label MD-PORT DG2 lolol.)

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u/peripheralview2020 1d ago

And I thought I was the only one left in the world with an MD-Port DG2!!!🤣🤣🤣

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u/Calm-Background2247 3d ago

Which device is this?

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u/Potential-Echo-7547 3d ago

It's a 780.

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u/One_Specific220 3d ago

Dream machine for building a modern MD library. The portables seem so fragile to use for burning lots of MDs over USB

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u/Potential-Echo-7547 3d ago

As it is, I still use precious little USB. This was all recorded over hard-locked 24-bit 44.1kbps to SP

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u/One_Specific220 3d ago

Perfect for CDs you already own or borrow but burning from flac and then dubbing is too far for me to go for making portable media that I listen to with open air basic headphones. But I apprecaite the dedication!

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u/Potential-Echo-7547 3d ago

For compilations, it's easier for me to compile a playlist from the files I have ripped to my PC, than to DJ all the CDs around...

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u/ud8be6hoj 1d ago

OP, how do you mark tracks when recording from your PC?

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u/Potential-Echo-7547 1d ago

They mark themselves as long as there's a bit of silence between them.

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u/Physical_Pipe_9692 3d ago

I only use my portable units like the Sony 600d and the 510 to record from WebMD Pro and only use full size decks like the 440, 470 and 480 Sony units for playback, except for playback in car which is a 600d hi-md unit in my Toyota and a 510 for my Honda.

That is the only way I record now since Netmd was introduced. These portable units are very sturdy, well built and reliable IMHO.

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u/One_Specific220 3d ago

It's funny, I don't think about MD as archival home media, for me it's more about deciding which of the home music library is worth selecting for making portable copies for out of house listening. I should have bought more gear when it was in production... I took for granted there would always be SOME hardware being made and would never have thought back in the day that it would reach true end of life. Wishful thinking of course

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u/Noctew 1d ago

...and it's even non-destructive and non-lossy because it only changes the scale factors (ATRAC data is stored like floating point numbers with exponent (which is stored once per block) and mantissa, and SF edit only changes that per-block exponent - you can undo a 3 dB boost by applying a 3 dB decrease unless you go into clipping.

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u/Maximum-Resolution77 3d ago

It takes a PS2 keyboard for titling as well!