DAT-heads Digest #412, Volume #6 Wed, 31 Jul 02 01:50:00 EDT Contents: fs: two Terrapin Station tix (Joshua) Looking for any July "Beatlejam" tapes ("Lane Kelly") RE: ISO: XLR > RCA cables ("American-Digital") ISA Digi Soundcard Tweaking ("Brian C. Kelly") Recordng to DAT the Alpine Valley Webcast (Keith Bode) Power Supply Question (Tom G) Re: XLR > RCA cables (Mathias Rombach) Porcupine Tree at Slim's (Charles Muccia) ISO: Alpine Tickets ("Mooney Monteilh") "Who" cares ? (Meurglys3@att.net) Looking for John Ricci (Danny Thweatt) Re: ZA2 (Clark Guy) Budgie to play U.S. Dates (Gear119348@aol.com) abb 89 through 97 ("Dave Stephens") Super Furry Animals ("TCH") Yes 2002 set info - details ("Jeff Franzreb") extra Phil Lesh & Friends 7/14/02 on 2 DATs for B+P ("Dan") Geoff Tate taping (BlackCrowes@gmx.net) ISO: Leona Naes Tapers ("Fares Halteh") ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joshua Subject: fs: two Terrapin Station tix Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:03:23 -0700 (PDT) howdy y'all - I've got two tickets for sale, one for each night of the Alpine Valley Terrapin Station performance. Price is face value. Thanks! -Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "Lane Kelly" Subject: Looking for any July "Beatlejam" tapes Reply-to: lkelly@infi.net Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:10:25 -0400 Anyone out there have any of the July "Beatlejam" shows? I'd love to trade for any that exist - have several other Beatlejam shows as well as a boatload of the older Blue Floyd dates. Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in trading. Thanks. lkelly@infi.net ***************************** Lane Kelly lkelly@infi.net ***************************** ------------------------------ From: "American-Digital" Subject: RE: ISO: XLR > RCA cables Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:40:52 -0400 Ben, (and all) All boards being different, it is hard to give a definitive answer on what exact cable to always bring. I am usually successful with plugging into the board with a female xlr connector. It can't hurt to also bring rca>rca cables as many boards will offer an rca out. I have even been in a situation where I have taken a 1/4" out from a soundboard. Long story short, most often, I have used a female xlr and been successful, but bring other cables as a backup plan. The board usually is not flexible, but you can be. Be prepared...it's the best thing you can do. RCA>XLR female http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/product.asp?p=847&c=38&name=Klone3- 20Ft.RCAtoXLR-f(stereo) RCA>XLR male http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/product.asp?p=850&c=38&name=Klone3- 20Ft.RCAtoXLR-m(stereo) RCA>RCA http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/product.asp?p=853&c=38&name=Klone3- 20Ft.RCAtoRCA(stereo) Adapters are available to convert an xlr into the opposite gender. You should be able to find them quite readily at your local Radio Shack or music store (ala Sam Ash, Mars, etc...) Heath Condiotte American-Digital 25 Van Zant St. Suite 1A Norwalk, CT 06855 1-888-872-3287-toll free www.american-digital.com heath@am-dig.com AOL IM: AmDigHeath =====Original Message===== > From: magichatr9@juno.com > Subject: ISO: XLR > RCA cables > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:24:00 GMT > > Hi All- > after getting shut out of a board patch last night for lack of owning XLR cables, i am finally looking to purchase some. My one question is whether i need the male or female XLR ends...also is there an adapter that will change male to female or vice versa if the board im taping from is different? please enlighten me... > Ben > ------------------------------ From: "Brian C. Kelly" Subject: ISA Digi Soundcard Tweaking Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:03:02 -0400 Hey all, After catching up on the recent conversation about the ZA2 it sparked my interested for the ISA Digi I/O soundcard that I own. It is a Digital Audio Labs Digital Only CardD (DAL DO CardD, http://www.digitalaudio.com/support/discont_support.htm). It is a bit-for-bit digital ONLY ISA bus card. It simply has spdif coax in and out, no analog connections at all. I picked it up less than a year ago for like $30 on ebay and figured for that price you really can't argue if you have to do some tweaking. Anyway, I am experiencing 'clicking' problems with my transfers. I get random clicks on my recorded wav files that are NOT on the original dats. I'm guessing this has to do with the buffer over/underrunning problem due to the fact that this is an ISA bus card. I think an important fact to note is that my CPU (PIII 550) runs at about 90%-95% when recording and this seems WAYYYY high for a transfer that is not even doing any A/D! I actually just upgraded to a 1.4 GHz Celeron and during recording it is still at about 90-95% cpu usage. I am connecting my DA-20 mkII directly to the soundcard via a hosa digi cable so this shouldn't be a deck or cable problem. Currently I've experienced the 'clicking' problem with my Dell p3 system, 512 mb ram, scsi hd, running windows 2k and xp pro. Obviously it should not be a hardware limitation, I'm thinking more of a configuration problem being that this is an 16-bit ISA card, rather than a 32-bit PCI card, which do not seem to hog up the CPU cycles nearly as much. I had a similar experience with an ISA vs. PCI SCSI card that I used for my burner. ISA was a CPU hog compared to the PCI card that was doing the exact same 4x burn. An interesting point to note is that I have also installed this card in a Pentium 200 (older) system with about 64 mb of ram and 2 gig IDE hard disk running Windows 98 and as well as my ears can tell it produced perfect transfers! You can actually get ahold of that transfer since I seeded it on etree: http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=6086 As you can see on the DAL site, there are no drivers for win 2k or higher. I have got the card to function properly under 2k AND xp with the win nt drivers for the CardDplus (ftp://ftp.digitalaudio.com/pub/cardd/cardnt.exe). But obviously still have the ISA (most likely) related clicking problem. Does anyone else happen to use the DAL DO CardD? I'm guessing it's a rarish card mostly because of its age. If anyone shed any light to how this problem can be solved running Win nt/2k/xp on a p3 system I'd appreciate it and be happy to summarize and post them back here. Thanks! Brian ------------------------------ From: Keith Bode Subject: Recordng to DAT the Alpine Valley Webcast Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:50:25 -0700 I don't know if this would be easier to record to my Hard Drive, but I would like to record the Webcast of the Alpine Valley broadcast this weekend. Dead.net are recommending purchasing a subscription to Real Audio to be able to listen to the show, and I was thinking of using the digital audio outs from my M/audio 24/96 to record the broadcast to DAT. I do have a DSL line, and wonder if any one knows if the broadcast will be of good enough quality to be worth recording. If anyone knows 1. Different software to use other than the newest real audio version, and 2. is the quality of the streaming going to be good enough to record to dat and make a quality recording? I'd appreciate any help. Keith -- Please check out http://www.wotwild.com for some great animal art and wall decorations. ------------------------------ From: Tom G Subject: Power Supply Question Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:06:46 -0700 (PDT) I'm sick of buying batteries for my rig. I have AGK 1000s Mics, a Zefiro Inbox and a Sony D8. Can anyone recommend a power supply to invest in? ===== Dear Lord, Please protect me from your followers. My CD-r list: http://db.etree.org/tomgoshaw __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Mathias Rombach Subject: Re: XLR > RCA cables Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:32:33 +0200 Hy Ben, > My one question is whether i need the male or female XLR ends... As usually, the soundboard has male-XLR connectors. So you must use female-XLR to get the signal. You need a female-XLR to RCA cable for each channel. If you want to make the cables for yourself, I can give you the connecting diagramm. > also is there an adapter that will change male to female or vice versa if the board > im taping from is different? Sure, there is. But you need definetely female-XLR. I did not see something else so far. Except sometimes phono plugs ... Mathias ------------------------------ From: Charles Muccia Subject: Porcupine Tree at Slim's Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Anyone taping PT at Slim's in San Francisco this Friday? If so,I'd really like to get a copy of this show. I can supply blanks and/or buy you a few beers at the show if you like. Also looking for any other PT shows that might be out there. I have lots to trade. Thanks! Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "Mooney Monteilh" Subject: ISO: Alpine Tickets Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:29:16 -0500 SSIA, A friend is in need of Alpine Tickets. If you need to get rid of them, you can call him at (512) 656-3089. His name is Tenn Jed!!!!!! Or you can e-mail me back before 5:00pm central today(I'm leaving for Phil tonight then New Orleans tomorrow) Thanks so much and NFA, Mooney _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ From: Meurglys3@att.net Subject: "Who" cares ? Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:56:29 +0000 Hi heads: Anybody care to help me with a Who show? I've see a show appear recently (10-19-69 Philadelphia, Electric Factory) for sale (ugh) as a SOUNDBOARD! I'm very suspicious as this is one venue that I've seen very little surface on, particularly soundboards. I saw a lot of great shows there as a kid but unfortunately missed this Who date. Can anybody confirm or deny the source of this show and possibly consider a trade if you have a copy? Here's my list. http://home.att.net/~meurglys3/ Tom ------------------------------ From: DannyThweatt@webtv.net (Danny Thweatt) Subject: Looking for John Ricci Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:01:52 -0500 (CDT) Anyone traded with him recently? He used to post here quite a bit, but he hasn't responded to the last several e-mails I've sent him. Any info would be much appreciated. http://www.sanctifiedpress.com/trade.html ------------------------------ From: Clark Guy Subject: Re: ZA2 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:46:45 -0500 HI, all! I"ve had a ZA2 since 1997 and had virtually no difficulties with it, using it with WIn95, 98, NT4, and now WIn2000. Back in the days of WIn95 and 98, I followed some of the suggestions made on this list as well as on the Zefiro website, regarding DMA and CDR drive autodetection. I think the main reason that I have so few problems is that I have as simple a computer setup as possible for my audio work. This means I have two seperate computers for my use. The Internet computer is completely seperate from the audio/photo computer. I use removable IDE hard drives for booting, and have seperate ones for audio work, and another for Photoshop and scanning. I even (still) have a couple of older drives that have NT4.0 on them for safety. This way, I don't have any bus busying, clock cycle stealing applications running on my computer when booted up for audio work. This way, I've also not had ANY computer crashes (that I didn't create myself by fooling around with things I don't understand! ;-) ). It also allows me to troubleshoot in the event of a problem, in that I can EASILY change out the operating system and verify that a non-working CDR recorder (for example) is not working because IT"S dead or because something got messed up in software, due, perhaps, to a power failure while the computer was running. (I have had this type of problem on the internet computer, generally due to my having too many pieces of shareware software installed, or by an unexpected shutdown due to power failure (or my knee hitting the power button!!!! ;-) ). One can successfullly make CDs on VERY obsolete computers,,, I've used a 90MHz Pentium with only 64Mb RAM running WIn 95 five years ago. I now use a 450Mhz PII with 1Gb RAM (for Photshop, mainly) and really don't see much difference in speed (execpt when running signal processing routines on the audio files.) I also have an IDE RAID array on this box as my working drive set, but I boot from the IDE removable disk. Thus, it might be worthwhile getting someone's cast-off computer (cheaply), and dedicating it to ONLY audio work. Thus, my advice to you (unsolicited, of course!) is to simplify the system you use for audio purposes as much as you possibly can. Hope this helps! Guy Clark <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From: Bob Ramstad Subject: Re: ZA2 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:14:44 -0700 I've owned a ZA2 for quite some time, and I've never been able to get it to work well in Windows, but it works GREAT in DOS. Simply make up a DOS diskette, copy the relevant ZA2 configuration files over to it, boot from the floppy, use the command line to record to a WAV file, absolutely no problems. The ZA2 is an ISA card, many motherboards think of ISA support as an afterthought... current m/b don't even have ISA slots (!) and so on modern systems with lots of stuff going on (ala Windows) the ISA bus is often starved for CPU cycles and samples are missed. Missed samples cause channel swapping. So, use a DOS floppy, and the ZA2 will work like a champ. -- Bob ------------------------------ From: Gear119348@aol.com Subject: Budgie to play U.S. Dates Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:13:14 EDT Hello to all Welsh rockers Budgie will play 2 U.S. dates in Texas at the end of August. Anybody familiar with this band won't want to miss this opportunity to capture them live. They last toured America in 1979! Wish I could be there, and would love to hear from any tapers planning to go. More info is availible at: http://members.tripod.com/~BUDGIEFANCLUB/BUDGIEGIG.html Email me if you plan to tape either gig PLEASE. Sincerely, Terry ------------------------------ From: "Dave Stephens" Subject: abb 89 through 97 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:42:38 -0400 hey all, im just looking to set up a couple of trades for some brothers for the above dates. no specific shows really just trying to fill a few holes in my collection. i would like these to come with source info if possible and the early pre '89 fm's would be awesome! please hq audio sources only. ive heard some rough ones from this era! i have over 50 brothers shows and recent masters that ive taped and an extensive list of gd and others to offer back. please email off list if you can help. thanx ds ------------------------------ From: "TCH" Subject: Super Furry Animals Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:32:50 -0500 For Trade Super Fury Animals 5-4-02 Austin,Tx csb batt box>sony pcm-m1>d>hhb-850>2cdr hujar@ev1.net ------------------------------ From: "Jeff Franzreb" Subject: Yes 2002 set info - details Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:24:51 -0400 I didn't think to post this after getting all the responses, but this is how it goes... I would say either 2 2-hour tapes or 1 3-hour tape. The first set clocks in just under 80 minutes while the second set is a bit over 80 minutes. I don't have exact times, but I am working from a friend who taped MD. Jeff ------------------------------ From: "Dan" Subject: extra Phil Lesh & Friends 7/14/02 on 2 DATs for B+P Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:39:41 -0400 This is for their recent show at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY. It was recorded to the left of the soundboard with B&K's. Mickey Hart plays on the first 40 minutes and Reid Genauer sings lead on FOTD. It's on two (2) SONY 90m DATs (one per set). Unfortunately the first DAT (set I) has no A-time on it (but the music is there). In return, I'd like two (2) sealed Sony or Maxell 90m DATs plus postage. First to respond after the Digest hits my mailbox gets it...unless you're willing to do B+P's for others, which I would give preference to (and then you wouldn't have to be 'first'), in which case please tell me how many B+P's for others you're willing to make...the highest # of B+P's offered will then get it. 'The contest' ends Friday when I leave for Alpine, but I will email back all who respond. Peace, -Dan- ------------------------------ From: BlackCrowes@gmx.net Subject: Geoff Tate taping Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:41:30 +0200 (MEST) Hi all, >From: Darryl Deyerle >Subject: The current state of taping in L.A. >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:58:32 -0700 >I went to tape Geoff Tate (of Queensryche)last Saturday at the House of >Blues in W. Hollywood. I was met here, for the first time, with metal >detectors. I tried a trick passed on by a fellow DAT-Head, by telling >them it was just a walkman,but it didn't work. Out of desparation, I >just crotched it and tried again, only to be found. Go ahead and try to met up with Geoff before the show...I taped Queensryche 4 times early in 2000 here in Germany/Switzerland.After the first show I stealthtaped in Stuttgart I was able to get backstage and confronted the band with the fact that they apparently changed their attitude towards taping since they once were known to be taper friendly.They were very surprised to hear that anything changed here and they said they are totally cool about me taping their shows.They said they don't want to make it an official policy and tell the venues in advance but if I was able to sneak my gear in I could tape whatever Queensryche show I'm able to make it to.They even put me on the guest list for the 3 shows to follow and were all very interested after the show whether or not I was able to get past security and how my tape came out.Geoff was especially kind and interested and listened to my efforts after every show.He asked me to send a clone of all four shows to his wife in Seattle which I gladly did. My advice would be to met up with Geoff in advance and tell him about the problems you had getting your gear in at previous shows...They way I got to know him he'll surely try to help you out, especially at his solo shows... Best from Munich, Germany Karsten -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net ------------------------------ From: "Fares Halteh" Subject: ISO: Leona Naes Tapers Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:40:25 -0400 Yet again, I am in search of people to tape Leona Naess. Her website has just put up some more dates and I'd love to get copies of any of these shows. Sorry I don't have full information on how to go about getting tickets quite yet; I am just passing the info along as I get it, trying to arrange potential tapers. If you think you can tape any of the following shows, please email me at Halteh3@Rogers.com 8/17/2002 The Mint Los Angeles, CA 9/22/2002 Iota Club Arlington, VA 9/24/2002 Lizard Lounge Cambridge, MA 9/26/2002 Iron Horse Northampton, MA 9/27/2002 Village Underground New York, NY 9/28/2002 The Point Bryn Mawr, PA I am willing to cover ticket costs or any other expenses you may incur, any help is so very much appreciated. btw, my list http://members.rogers.com/halteh3/main.html I can tape in Toronto for you in the month of August I am taping: Beth Orton, Sonic Youth, Vans Warped (off the board), Hope Sandoval and Tool. Thanks again, Fares Halteh - Halteh3@Rogers.com ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** To unsubscribe from this digest, please send email to dat-heads-unsubscribe@datheads.phish.net If your email address has changed, you may (optionally) send the message to dat-heads-unsubscribe-oldaddress=olddomain@datheads.phish.net and the old address will be removed. 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