Re: [ARSCLIST] Sony CD Recorder--help needed

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:30 PM 2008-03-17, Tom Fine wrote:
> For what it's worth, I've been very happy with my Tascam CDRW900, 
> but it doesn't get as much use recording as I imagined. It gets used 
> more for playing background music while I do file-chopping and 
> book-keeping work in the studio. Once in a while someone just wants 
> "a CD of this tape" and it's easiest to do a direct feed to the Tascam.

I'm with Tom on this one! I have a Sony ICF2002 for the odd 
listening, or I pull something up from my files and listen through 
the main monitors.

I first did my transfers to a pair of Panasonic SV-3800 DATs. A bit 
later, I did them to a pair of CDR-W33s. Now I do everything to the 
computer. I haven't recorded on the CDR-W33 in my studio since I put 
it in, except perhaps once to record a radio show from the tuner.

My other one is on long-term loan to my church until we decide what 
we're really going to do--either a CF recorder or direct to PC. Both 
have plusses and minuses.

At the end of the day, the church will have a file system similar to 
mine. They've already agreed in principal to put a second server at a 
nearby but non-attached structure and in the remodel are assigned us 
a media room in the church basement. It may be easier to put a CF 
recorder into the church sound booth and bring the CF card down to 
the media room and copy it onto the server than to burden the booth 
operator with running a PC. I did both Palm Sunday services on one 4 
GB CF card in my SD 722 with almost an hour left over, so a few 4 GB 
CF cards ought to meet any need.

The best use I can recall in the last half dozen years with the CD 
burners were the work stations I helped set up at an oral history 
collection that had > 5000 tapes in great danger of not lasting due 
to long-term poor storage and lowest-bidder purchasing back in the 
day. We set up reel-to-reel and cassette "islands" each with one 
player and two CDR-W33s and a pair of headphones. Volunteers staffed 
these and did QC on the fly. It worked for almost no money compared 
to outsourcing.

Cheers,

Richard


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