DAT-Heads Digest #188
Contents:
"DAT Studio" reads DATs into Macs ("Gary Davis")
re: 1998 Lilith Fair tour itinerary (Robbie Dunn)
Hungry D7 (was: Strange Dubbing Problem) ("Sanabria")
SONY D-8 + RMT-D100 (Masato Kato)
Moe. 4/17/98 DSBDs??? (Drummerist)
PCM-M1 Error Counter (Robert Ian Hoffman)
RE: PCM-M1 Error Counter (Robert Ian Hoffman)
cdrs/dats (Gordon Les)
any one tape Dave Matthews Band in Ronoke,VA (Steve4134)
Windows95 (Jesse Lackey)
DMB 4.18.98 grovel (joecamp@mediaone.net)
Virginia Becah area tapers (Frank Nieradko)
Miami tapers (Frank Nieradko)
Start IDs and the ZA2 (Greg Hanssen)
FS: DATs OUT OF MY COLLECTION $5+postage (Adrian Fernandes)
ANNC: CD-R lists at Grateful Dead Tapelists (Jim Denaro)
From: "Gary Davis" <gdavis@loop.com>
Subject: "DAT Studio" reads DATs into Macs
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:28:12 +0000
The "DAT Studio" drive will read DAT tapes directly into Macs at
double speed. One small drawback: it costs $2795.
--Gary
From: Robbie Dunn <goheels@mindspring.com>
Subject: re: 1998 Lilith Fair tour itinerary
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:02:17 -0400
So "Chick-a-palooza" is coming back for round two ;-)
From: "Sanabria" <sanabria@mail.oeonline.com>
Subject: Hungry D7 (was: Strange Dubbing Problem)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:36:23 -0400
==========
> From: Sanabria <sanabria@mail.oeonline.com>
> Subject: Strange Dubbing Problem
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 12:25 PM
>
> I received a set of tapes last week that play fine, but for some reason
> will not cleanly copy onto another tape. I'm recording Sony D-7 to
Tascam
> DA-20 with the Core Sound 7-pin/coax connector. The original set of
tapes
> play cleanly on both of my decks, but whenever I playback clones of the
> tapes there are dropouts and diginoise throughout the tapes. I've tried
> different brands (KAO, Maxell OEM, Masterdat) with no luck as well. I
> discovered that the tapes were recorded with SCMS so I was unable to
record
> from the Tascam to Sony.
Just to follow up on this post, I've discovered that my Sony D7 is starting
to get a little hungry. I visually inspected one of the tapes that was
causing problems and sure enough there was bends in the tape. I took a
brand new tape and again inspected the tape and found no bends of any sort.
I took this tape and recorded about a couple of minutes worth of music on
my Tascam DA-20. Ejected and visually inspected the tape again. Perfectly
smooth throughout. I put it in my D7, rewound to the beginning and pressed
play. I immediately started to hear diginoise and dropouts. I ejected the
tape and inspected again. Sure enough, the portion that had been played
was now creased and the area of the tape forward of the point that I
stopped playback was perfectly fine.
So, it looks like my D7 is mangling my tape. The tape doesn't get
completely pulled out and eaten. Just bent and creased during normal
playback and recording (I later found out). Do any of you have any idea
what this could be? Or, better yet, if it is fixable? Too make matters
worse, it doesn't seem to do this consistently. Masterdats would get
mangled the worse, while KAOs seem to get mangling without any audible
errors.
Thanks,
Tim Sanabria
From: love-0nl@wellmet.or.jp (Masato Kato)
Subject: SONY D-8 + RMT-D100
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 10:27:12 +0900
A friend of mine used SONY D-8 and the remote control RMT-D100
together at the show, and got small scratch noise all through
the tape. When he did not use RMT-D100, there was no such noise.
It seems that RMT-D100 was the source of the noise. Did any of
you have the similar experience?
Masato Kato
<LOVE-0NL@wellmet.or.jp>
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
From: Drummerist <Drummerist@aol.com>
Subject: Moe. 4/17/98 DSBDs???
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:49:11 EDT
Hey Everybody,
Did anyone tape fridays Moe. show at the Globe Theater. I would love
to get my hands on some tapes for a trade or B&P.
Thanks,
Luke
From: Robert Ian Hoffman <rih5@columbia.edu>
Subject: PCM-M1 Error Counter
Reply-To: Robert Ian Hoffman <rih5@columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:09:04 -0400 (EDT)
Could someone please help me access this feature. I didn't even know it
existed until a recent post. I tried doing the same commands that
supposedly work for getting into the test mode for a D-100, ie...press
stop, counter, and open simultaneously...then use the mode setter button
find test mode #2 and press enter. I tried doing this, but after pressing
the buttons I got a readout that said 1 40 40 and I was able to change
the first '40' to several different numbers by hitting the 'mode'
button (99, 01, 01, 21, 22, 32, etc..)...then when I hit 'enter' the
second 40 would change to that
number. At that point I got a little nervous about screwing around with
that so I shut off the power which is supposed to exit the test mode (and
it did). When I went back into that mode the same 1 40 40 readout was
given. One thing that I did was set the first '40' to '02' and I hit
enter...then I forgot what the original setting was. When I pulled the
power and then went back to the mode and got the 1 40 40...I remembered
that as being the original setting. I want to make sure that I didn't
mess with anything permanent in the deck. So, could someone please give
me a step by step process of what I should do to get into the error
counter mode? And could someone reassure me that given what I did
above, I didn't screw with anything already that I shouldn't have :)
There is nothing mentioned in the manual about accessing this mode.
Thanks for your help,
rob hoffman
rih5@columbia.edu
From: Robert Ian Hoffman <rih5@columbia.edu>
Subject: RE: PCM-M1 Error Counter
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:39:36 -0400 (EDT)
Sorry to waste more BW, but I figured out how to access the error counter
on my M1. My only question now is why are the error readouts for both
heads jumping all over the place? Even after running a cleaning tape I
was getting a number between 1 & 7 almost continually as a tape was
playing. I tried using a 90m KAO Gold and a 60m Sony DT. My deck is a
little over 2 months old and has had a fair amount of use...mostly D>A
stuff that I do during the day. Unfortuantly, I use mostly 90m tapes (KAO
Gold). Is this something I should be worried about (no, not my use of
90m tapes...I already know that is something I should be worried about)?
Thanks for your help,
rob hoffman
rih5@columbia.edu
From: Gordon Les <lesg@microserve.net>
Subject: cdrs/dats
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:57:44 -0400 (EDT)
hello, someone was wondering why dats are so much more then cdrs. its
simply because dats are much more widely used in recording studios and
making demos. the prices should be the same for a wile.
thanks for the space les.
From: Steve4134 <Steve4134@aol.com>
Subject: any one tape Dave Matthews Band in Ronoke,VA
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:06:11 EDT
hello im looking for a good copy of the ronoke show of dave matthews Band that
took place april 18 , i heard it was a great show. if you have it please e-
mail me at steev4134@aol.com to setup a trade
steve
From: Jesse Lackey <jesse@celestialaudio.com>
Subject: Windows95
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:48:33 -0400
There has been some discussions about the following Win95 tweak:
> >< you can improve the slack in the system by adding the following lines
> >in
> >< c:\windows\system.ini (use notepad)
> ><
> >< [vcache]
> >< minfilecache= "X"
> >< maxfilecache= "X"
> ><
> >< where "X" is replaced by one-fourth the number of KILObytes of RAM you
> >have
> >< installed -- 16384 for a 64 MB system, 8192 for 32 MB, etc.
> >< Eight MB should cover almost 50 seconds, which is far more than I had
> >< to deal with.
> >
> >With a 50 second RAM buffer, a few msec of thermal recalibration time is
> >nothing.
>
> This is incorrect according to my (limited) understanding:
>
> First of all. there are many different kinds of caching. Vcache is a software
> disk cache that use an MRU (Most Recently Used) data retrieval scheme.
>
etc.
I have worked with this tweak before. The problem is that the amount of
file caching happening under Win95 varies as the computer use varies; if you
launch Netscape while running Word, the file cache will shrink to leave more
mem for running the applications. Etc. When streaming audio, after several
minutes Win95 decides to adjust the cache significantly - and this may (in
my case, with a 100Mhz 486, always) cause a glitch. The fix is to not have
Win95 ever change the cache size - by setting minfilecache = maxfilecache.
I used 4096 at the time, for a 16Mb system. I think 1/4 or 1/8 of your
system memory is about right.
For info from Microsoft about it:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q140/6/78.asp
This tweak was mentioned about every 3 months on the PC-DAW mailing list. It
is *vital* for older machines. If you have a 266 or somesuch, well a fast
CPU can mask many OS deficiencies. I would still add it to your system.
Other things to make Win95 behave more like a real-time OS: (which it most
certainly isn't):
a) turn off all power-saving features, in the OS and in the computer BIOS
b) no screen savers
c) no virus checkers that do anything in the background, or on each file
created/opened/executed to (Norton Antivirus by default checks each
file when opened. Ouch. As well as scanning your harddisks each day)
d) no background tasks like disk integrity checkers, defragmenters, or backups.
If you are running system agent, make sure you know what it is set to
do. (I don't run it)
e) Microsoft office 97 by default installs "fast find", which in the background
scans your harddisks for Word documents and builds a database to query
against. It does this every two hours by default. Bad. Look at
start -> programs -> startup for it. Disable it.
f) Turn off auto insert notification for CD-ROM drives. "My computer" ->
properties -> device manager -> CD-ROM drives -> double-click on
the drive. Golden Hawk Software (they make the DAO cd burner program)
says this must be done. My understanding is that every 15 seconds or
so Win95 asks the CDROM drive "did the drawer open?" and this query
uses i/o bandwidth. Does it matter? maybe. The only drawback is
that after switching CDs you have to press "F5" in the Explorer to
get it to update.
g) Don't launch programs etc. while recording/playing back audio or burning
CDs. I read email or just leave the PC alone.
Humm that's all I can think of for the moment.... you should record/playback
from defragged disks, of course. (I have an AV harddisk I use just for
audio and CD burning)
If anyone has any further tricks, let me know. One of these days I'll
put this info and anything more on a web page.
Best of luck,
Jesse
--
Jesse Lackey, Ithaca, NY my personal page: http://www.lightlink.com/jesse
From: joecamp@mediaone.net
Subject: DMB 4.18.98 grovel
Reply-To: joecamp@mediaone.net
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:02:05 -0500
If anybody taped today's DMB show at Victory Stadium in Roanoke, VA,
would you please please PLEEASE consider a trade or b&p? check out my
meagre little list at http://members.xoom.com/jcamp/.
thanks!
Joe
--
"Above all others.
Porkind treat without equal.
There is but one Spam.
My friend Porkshoulder, I return to you.
This time I brought mayonnaise."
-Glen Phillips, 6/6/97
From: Frank Nieradko <frankn1@innernet.net>
Subject: Virginia Becah area tapers
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:44:31 -0400
Hello everyone-
I am in desperate need of a taper for a show in Virginia Beach next
month. I will supply the tickets and pay for any additional costs.
Please email me asap and let me know. I hope that someone can help me
out.
Frank
frankn1@innernet.net
From: Frank Nieradko <frankn1@innernet.net>
Subject: Miami tapers
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:46:25 -0400
Hello-
I am trying to find a taper for a show next month in Miami. Please
email me if you can help. I will pay for tickets/expenses. I hope that
someone can help me out. Thanks.
Frank
frankn1@innernet.net
From: Greg Hanssen <hanssen@netcom.com>
Subject: Start IDs and the ZA2
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:59:12 -0700 (PDT)
Although it is possible to read in Start_ID times alongside an audio
recording on the hard disk with the ZA2, we don't yet have a version
of the playback software that will re-insert the Start_IDs on the
output... although it is technically possible.
--
Greg Hanssen <greg@zefiro.com> www.zefiro.com (714)-551-5833
--== Zefiro Acoustics: Pro S/PDIF & AES/EBU digital I/O for the PC ==--
Check out the EV1 Electric Car at ev1-club.power.net or www.gmev.com
From: Adrian Fernandes <adrianf@rocketmail.com>
Subject: FS: DATs OUT OF MY COLLECTION $5+postage
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
001: MINISTRY: Clutch Cargo's, Detroit,
MI 10-Jul-82 54m ANA/2 44
MINISTRY: Boston, MA 1983 30m ANA/1 44
MINISTRY: RPM, Toronto 10-Apr-85 34m ANA/M 44
002: LIVE AID
(London/Philadelphia) 13-Jul-85 120m ANA/1 44
inc. David Bowie, U2, Duran Duran, Powerstation, UK
Finale, Led Zeppelin
007: WHALE: Roskilde Festival,
Denmark 30-Jun-95 34m FM 32 SP
PRODIGY: Karen, Gothenburg,
Sweden 25-Nov-94 63m FM 32 SP
008: NINE INCH NAILS: MLG, Toronto,
ON 01-Dec-95 103m AUD/M 48
013: THE ORB: New Trinity Ctr, Bristol,
UK 18-Apr-95 24m FM 32 SP
ELASTICA: Folkets Park, Hultsfred,
SWE 08-Aug-94 40m FM 32 SP
SUEDE: Warehouse, Toronto 17-Feb-95 56m FM 44
014: ELASTICA: Commodore, Vancouver,
BC 19-Jun-95 45m FM 44
RADIOHEAD: RPM, Toronto, ON 06-Jun-95 58m FM 44
015: BJORK: Warehouse, Toronto 07-Aug-95 58m FM 44
WILD STRAWBERRIES: Horeshoe,
Toronto 24-Nov-95 58m FM 44
016: BUSH: Warehouse, Toronto 15-Aug-95 75m AUD 44
019: BLUR: Warehouse, Toronto 01-Oct-95 57m FM 44
SUPERGRASS: Opera House, Toronto 11-Sep-95 46m FM 44
SUPERGRASS: Glastonbury Festival Jun 95 9m FM 44
020: PRESIDENTS/USA: Lee's Palace,
Toronto 09-Nov-95 58m FM 44
BUSH: Warehouse, Toronto 15-Aug-95 58m FM 44
021: BARENAKED LADIES: Conv. Centre,
Toronto 08-Mar-96 60m AUD/0 44
022: ALAN PARSONS: Abravanel Hall, SLC,
UT 02-Oct-96 110m AUD 48
025: PET SHOP BOYS: Wembley Arena,
London 19-Jul-89 83m D3/0 32 LP
PET SHOP BOYS: Mayan Club, LA,
CA 06-Nov-90 43m D3/0 32 LP
PET SHOP BOYS: Univ. Amp., LA,
CA 29-Mar-91 98m D3/0 32 LP
027: FRONT 242: "Live Target" (offic. BOOT)
xx-xxx-91 74m CD 44
032: SLOWDIVE: Slowdive e.p. 20m CD 44
SLOWDIVE: Morningrise e.p. 15m CD 44
SLOWDIVE: Holding Our Breath e.p. 14m CD 44
039: THE ORB: Glasgow Barrowlands, Scotland
20-Mar-97 60m ANA/FM 32 LP
PRODIGY: New Trinity Ctr, Bristol, UK
Apr 1995 20m ANA/FM 32 LP
UNDERWORLD: Reading Festival Aug 1996 30m ANA/FM 32
LP
UNDERWORLD: Leeds, UK 1995 20m ANA/FM 32 LP
ORBITAL: Glastonbury
Festival 24-Jun-95 53m ANA/FM 32 LP
CHEMICAL BROTHERS: Bristol,
UK 18-Apr-95 20m ANA/FM 32 LP
041: APHEX TWIN: Riquid Room, Tokyo,Japan
02-Feb-97 AUD/1 48
[incl. DJ Grant and DJ Anonymous sets]
xxx: LIVE: Molson Ampitheatre, Toronto
27-Jul-97 88m AUD/M 32
LUSICOUS JACKSON: Mols. Amp., Tor.
27-Jul-97 41m AUD/M 32
xxx: CURE: Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris
15-Oct-96 120m FM 44
xxx: DEPECHE MODE: Minneapolis, MN 13-May-88
92m D3/0 32 LP
DEPECHE MODE: Los Angeles, CA 05-Aug-90
111m D3/0 32 LP
MEDICINE: Whiskey A Go-Go, Los Ang, CA 11-Sep-91
32m D3/0 32 LP
xxx: CURE: SkyDome, Toronto 17-Jul-92 130m ANA/0 32
INXS: Marine Terminal 28, Toronto
19-Nov-93 97m ANA/0 32
xxx: 808 STATE: Kingswood,
Toronto 31-Jul-93 46m ANA/0 32
NEW ORDER: Kingswood, Toronto 31-Jul-93 74m ANA/0 32
CATHERINE WHEEL: Marine Terminal 28
19-Nov-93 37m ANA/0 32
FRONT 242: RPM, Toronto 07-Dec-93 76m ANA/0 32
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From: Jim Denaro <jdenaro@wwimpact.com>
Subject: ANNC: CD-R lists at Grateful Dead Tapelists
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 03:45:18 -0500
Hey now...
I'm posting to announce some changes I've made at the Grateful Dead Tapelists site
( http://bertha.wwimpact.com/gdtapelists/ ).
In the last few weeks I have reworked much of the site. Here are some of the changes I've made:
*Added support for two new kinds of media: CD-R and VHS. (In addition to the original Cassette and DAT sections). When adding/updating your list, you can select every type of media that is part of your list. Your entry on the site will appear in each section you have selected.
--> If there is any interest in a PCM section, let me know in email and I'll see about putting one in.
Eventually, I'll have to add a DVD section... but I guess there's no rush to do that just yet ;)
*New sorting options: You now have the option of sorting the lists of traders by "Date of Update" or by "Hours of Dead."
*Redesigned Wishlists: I have redesigned the Wishlist section from the ground up. It's much more intuitive to use and loads much faster.
*More tapelists: The site has also grown a great deal. The site now has 495 Cassette lists, 98 DAT, 7 CD-R, and 16 VHS lists. (Ratios that probably accurately reflect the trading community at large?) Every link on the site goes to a proper tapelist. ( There are are no "E-mail" only links ). So if you have a DAT or CD-R list (or cassette or vhs) list that you'd like to post, come on in. The CD-R section is new and the more people on-board, the merrier.
And as always, Grateful Dead Tapelists is 100% spam free, annoying-ad free, and totally non-commercial.
Feel free to stop in to add your list to the site, update your list on the site, or just browse around.
NFA,
Jim Denaro
Grateful Dead Tapelists
http://bertha.wwimpact.com/gdtapelists/
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