DAT-heads Digest #723

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SKB Mic Comparison ("James Ballen") FT: MADONNA 1987 D6 Masters x 3 - Wham - Spandau Ballet ("Digital Ambience") Baking Tapes (Klay Anderson) FS: DA-P1 and Accessories ("James H. Pollock") Re: Spigot Adapter (Ratbob Shortpants) RE: Baking Tapes ("matt Sohn") DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... (Tom Chaffin) RE: dipshit bands (Rockcat) RE:RE: Re: DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... (Sean Cartwright) Nomad JB3 (Alan Saferstein) FT: Suzanne Vega 04/27 (steve) FS:GrahamPattenADC20-$200 ("john crouch") Re: RE:RE: Re: DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... ("M") recording in a stadium (BS..to be exact) ("Bas Ruesink") Audio Magic Cables 4 Sale ("Mark M Gehl") re:NEED HELP TRANSFERING DATS TO CDR? (kmstraker@mindspring.com) Matchbox Twenty Cleveland ("James Brogdon") fs: m1 with all original everything, repairmaster warranty. (Blackpete@aol.com) Re: tour dates (Philip Smoker) tape jesse malin ("Boogie Shafer")
From: "James Ballen" <ballenjames@hotmail.com> Subject: SKB Mic Comparison Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:46:53 -0700 As well as the 3/5/03 comparisons, anyone interested peeps should check out the 2/15/03 shows. I found AKG 393, Soundfield, DPA 4022, and Schoeps mic sources...and also a 24-bit version of the DPA source. The difference between 16 and 24-bit recordings is really amazing. Hope some other folks will check this out and give feedback on both show's sources. peace, James _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
From: "Digital Ambience" <digitalambience@hotmail.com> Subject: FT: MADONNA 1987 D6 Masters x 3 - Wham - Spandau Ballet Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:05:45 -0400 I have 3 Madonna audience masters for trade, listed below. I am looking for masters/1st gens of 1985 & 1987 Madonna shows as well as audience masters/1st gens of Spandau Ballet & Wham! Also have UK audience masters of Cocteau Twins, Queen, Sugarcubes as well as 80's U2 and Simple Minds. Madonna 08/18/87 Wembley Stadium London England 90 CDRM 'Sony D6 master'> CDR Master 08/19/87 Wembley Stadium London England 90 CDRM 'Sony D6 master'> CDR Master 08/20/87 Wembley Stadium London England 90 CDRM 'Sony D6 master'> CDR Master _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
From: Klay Anderson <klay@klay.com> Subject: Baking Tapes Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:20:02 -0600 Skiadikt@aol.com Subject: baking reel-to-reel tapes Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:15:02 EDT > sorry for the non-dat content. currently involved in transferring old reels to > cd. some tapes are so dried out that they play with squeals etc or don't play > at all. i've heard of a process that involves 'baking' the reel. doesn't > anybody have any specifics on this technique? thanks. > Do a Google. I found at least 30 sources of excellent info. Thanks! -- Regards, Klay Anderson, D.A.,Q.B.E. Klay Anderson Audio, Inc. http://www.klay.com 1.800.FOR.KLAY
From: "James H. Pollock" <jpollock@sc.rr.com> Subject: FS: DA-P1 and Accessories Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:40:24 -0400 Hello! I'm posting this for a friend off the list. Please contact him privately if interested. He can be reached at: chrisbridges@mchsi.com For sale: Tascam DA-P1 2 ecocharge batteries battery charger portabrace bag that carries batteries and deck nicely (2 pieces that go together) The deck has about 75 hours on it and is in great shape (working-wise and cosmetically). Asking price for everything is $1000 and I will certainly entertain any reasonable offers. Thanks, Chris Bridges
From: Ratbob Shortpants <i3lkpeter@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Spigot Adapter Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:01:26 -0700 (PDT) http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bh3.sph/FrameWork.class?FNC=ProductActivator__Aproductlist_html___5357___BO3102___REG___CatID=0___SID=F4BBC4EA870 Rapid adapter 3/8" Mfr Catalog # 3102 &#8226; B&H Catalog # BO3102 $12.95 then i use this: http://www03.bhphotovideo.com/default.sph/FrameWork.class?FNC=ProductActivator__Aproductlist_html___5595___BO3366___REG___CatID=0___SID=EB8B5C7E8B0 3/8" euro to microphone thread adap Mfr Catalog # 3366 &#8226; B&H Catalog # BO3366 $6.95 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
From: "matt Sohn" <mahatma@megsinet.net> Subject: RE: Baking Tapes Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:00:39 -0400 > > sorry for the non-dat content. currently involved in transferring old reels > to cd. some tapes are so dried out that they play with squeals etc or don't > play at all. i've heard of a process that involves 'baking' the reel. doesn't > anybody have any specifics on this technique? thanks. > > ski > First of all, DO NOT BAKE ACETATE TAPES! You will destroy them! To tell if your tape is acetate or polyurethane, hold the reel up to a light, if you can see light through the pack, it's acetate. or, try to break off a little piece of the tape, if it breaks cleanly, it's acetate, if it stretches rather than breaking, it's poly. To bake a tape you need an oven capable of maintaining a constant temperature between 125-130 degrees. Home ovens won't work. Use either a decent quality convection oven or a food dehydrator (I use a Nesco Snackmaster Pro and it works great. check it out at: http://www.nesco.com/products/product.phtml?category=300&subcat=0&id=39 ) Bake the tape at 130 degrees for 8 hours, let it cool down in the oven, and then you can play it for approximately a month before it degrades again. Just make sure the temperature doesn't get over 132, or you will melt the tape. More info can be found at: http://www.masterdigital.com/24bit/analogtape.html http://www.tangible-technology.com/tape/baking1.html http://www.westernpublicradio.org/rc/tt17.html -Matt S
From: Tom Chaffin <t_chapper@yahoo.com> Subject: DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:54:25 -0700 (PDT) I'm with Bogus too...I've also went to check out bands after seeing the posts on here. If anyone does tape any of the Subhumans (who didn't come to Denver) or Throwrag shows, I'd love copies. Have lots of non-jamband stuff to trade. Chapper __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
From: Rockcat <rockcat@bigplanet.com> Subject: RE: dipshit bands Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:16:33 -0400 > From: <mcmiller@cox.net> > Subject: Re: band tour dates > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:08:06 -0400 > > Just to be clear, I didn't call any individual list member a > dipshit and I apologize if I hurt someone's feelings. > But everything else I said about tour posts stands. No, let me be clear: EVERYONE on this list is a dipshit, except me of course :-) Now let's end this stupid thread... rockcat
From: Sean Cartwright <scartwri@rochester.rr.com> Subject: RE:RE: Re: DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:53:38 -0400 Hey People, This will be my last PUBLIC post on a non topic issue (like posting tour dates ;^) "... this is also not DAT TRADING ONLY HEADS. this is directly from the FAQ: "{1} What is dat-heads? How does it work? dat-heads is a digestified mailing list for discussion of Digital Audio, especially pertaining to Grateful Dead Audience taping and GD tape trading." i win again. ... " With this rational, I understand why you are making such a point to argue something that has been repeatedly beaten to death. While you were on the DAT Heads page, why didn't you do some searches through posts and see what the administrator of this list has requested. Does his vote count for something? I don't think anyone minds 10-15 lines of info, It crosses the line when it turns into 1/2 a digest worth of info that could have been shortened with no more than a half-assed effort. As someone else mentioned, the archives have to be stored and maintained. Are you inconsiderate enough not to care since you don't have to worry about keeping a site running and having enough HD space for its ever growing data, or it may be that you just haven't thought about if even 25% of all digests had lengthy posts of tour dates, the space adds up. As for the Dead mention, I believe that had something to do with the original members being made up of a large proportion of Dead tapers. As for a band not having a web page, I guess I could be wrong but in this day and age even most garage bands have a web page if they're playing out. For those who don't, you could easily post the shows w/info to something like jambase (I've seen non-jam band bands in there) and even offer a link from here. I don't think there's a cost to post shows there (I could be wrong). Everyone's happy that way, and maybe you get to know the band and get on the guest list when they find out that you're helping to promote them. Lists are gonna happen either way because there's always new people joining this list who don't know what has been requested of the "crowd" prior to his/her joining. It would just be nice to see them limited. Maybe Sean (the moderator, not me) could offer his opinion, maybe you don't care? As mentioned, I will not waste any more public space on this topic! Peace, Sean
From: Alan Saferstein <alans12@comcast.net> Subject: Nomad JB3 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:07:44 -0400 I couldn't resist. I went out and bought one. Yeah, Len's thing is coming, and very cool, but just the PDA costs more than this puppy. And yep, I know about the Sound Devices thing coming, but it will cost 8 times what the JB3 does, and I know both will do a lot more, but like I said, I couldn't resist. Very worst case I got an overpriced portable hard drive. I also bought one of the half-cigarette-pack-sized silver coax->optical converter from MCM. I tested the setup at home using 44.1 and 48 from my dvd player and digital cable. Coax and direct optical. Everything I recorded came out absolutely glitch free. Even stuck my D7 in the signal path. I even sent it the spdif coax out of my ART DI/O (put some old cassettes to CD). So then I got bold, with only the one included battery, I took it to a festival. I ended up several back in the coax chain each time I patched it and each time there were ticking noises throughout the recordings. From the results I saw at home with the same setup, I am convinced that these cheap coax->optical (including the CO2) converters are not as tolerant of split/jittery/non-voltage compliant spdif signals as say my D7 is, which, at the same location in the same chain recorded perfectly fine. This brings me back to JB3 batteries. I was only able to get one band on the internal battery (two bands would require just over 3 hours, I got just under 3 hours the day before), so that's why I was swapping out for the D7. Next time I go out to record/patch I will bring my Audio Alchemy DTI, which reclocks (not resamples) the signal. My hope is that it can clean up the signal enough, as it is designed to do, to let the JB3 record a clean signal. The DTI was designed as a jitter reducer to be put between older generation CD players (used at transports) and outboard DAC's. I got it because it strips SCMS. I have a optical and coax out on it, so I could use both, to see if the coax->optical converter gives trouble again. The thing that sucks is I am almost trying to go home with a bad recording ;( Luckily I can run my DAT off my own mics, and patch this rig outa someone else at the end of a chain. So this leads me to ask Jamie, (hey Jamie, we finally met in Rak/my room in Hampton) did you every try a recording that was direct optical out of the source and get unreliable results you could only attribute to the JB3? I'll keep trying, but as long as I give it a good signal, it seems to record fine. I think this may be a signal quality/compliance issue instead of, or at least in addition to, the JB3 doing something wrong in streaming the audio to the hard drive. Now, what about battery power? Will it tolerate 6v even though the line lump and dc in jack are labeled 5v? I have several 7805 voltage regulators laying around, but if the one volt higher is ok and battery is going to drain down, do I need to bother? Anyone built/used an outboard 6v battery pack with a JB3? (Yes, I know 4 x NiMH will get me near 5v, but I want to use a 6v SLA) BTW, what's up with the what appears to be a choke on the power cord? TIA for any input, Alan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 4/24/2003
From: steve <stevemtl@videotron.ca> Subject: FT: Suzanne Vega 04/27 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:32:47 -0400 Have a lovely audience master of Suzanne Vega at Higher Ground in Winooski VT this past Sunday (4/27). Made with Sennheiser MKE2002 -> Denon DTR80P. Will trade (DAT only, for the moment) for other Vega from this tour, or any recordings new to me of Leonard Cohen; Kate and Anna McGarrigle; Susan Werner; or Richard Shindell. Will also consider many other folk and singer-songwriters; lists and links welcome. Thanks, Steve BWT: Susan Werner 1999-08-13 Shirley, MA Bull Run Two CDRs FREE to first reply. Susan is a superlative writer, guitarist and piano player. She is funny and witty, making for a lively performance. Audience audiotaping is permitted; clear your arrangements with the venue only.
From: "john crouch" <slouchiec@hotmail.com> Subject: FS:GrahamPattenADC20-$200 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:07:29 -0700 The subject says it all, it includes the battery cable and could possibly include a 6v battery as well, in great shape, make me an offer...Thanks for the space, aloha, JOHN BWT:(for Phish folk)Phish:2-15-03 DFC/TS cmc6/mk41v>v2>mMe>DAP1 or SKB: 4-18-03 Onstage:AKG414>V3>mMe>Toshiba Portege(24/44.1)>cd (16/44.1) _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
From: "M" <Matt@giantdork.com> Subject: Re: RE:RE: Re: DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:23:09 -0700 ===== Original Message ===== From: "Sean Cartwright" <scartwri@rochester.rr.com> To: <dat-heads@datheads.phish.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: RE:RE: Re: DAT-heads Digest #719- long tourdates posts... > Hey People, > > This will be my last PUBLIC post on a non topic issue (like posting tour > dates ;^) thank you. > As mentioned, I will not waste any more public space on this topic! thank you
From: "Bas Ruesink" <basruesink@hotmail.com> Subject: recording in a stadium (BS..to be exact) Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 09:43:47 +0200 hi, i will be taping BS in a stadium next week and since its the first time there (in a stadium) for me i need some advice. Are there any good places to tape if you are not (!) in the first section before the stage? are there extra speakers behind the mixingdesk? any suggestions, please offlist. thanks B. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
From: "Mark M Gehl" <mmgehl@nconnect.net> Subject: Audio Magic Cables 4 Sale Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:29:36 -0500 I have been doing some cleaning out of my stuff and have some cables that I no longer use. All are in very good or better condition and shipping for each is $4.00 USPS Priority Mail (unless you ask for something different) 1 pr XLR > RCA Spellcaster 3ft. great for going XLR out from pre to rca in on dap1! $150 pr 1 AES EBU I am not sure what level cable this is. I had it made in 95 or 96 before AES/EBU was a standard type item. The sheath is black $45 1 RCA/RCA Presto (I think, its not marked) digital cable. very good condition. the barrels don't match because I lost one at a show some where. $50 Pics available on request Mark mmgehl@nconnect.net
From: kmstraker@mindspring.com Subject: re:NEED HELP TRANSFERING DATS TO CDR? Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:03:37 -0400 (EDT) If you are like many tapers, you hardly ever have a chance to listen to your old dat masters because they are not on cdr,.... It always makes me laugh when people ask how I'll listen to the tape when I never transfer to cdr. It's called a play button and it's right next to the record button. Not to be confused with the stop button which has a tiny dot over it. BWT: WSP 4-29-03 Savannah B&P on DAT only, for those of you who know where the play button is. mk4>kc5>cmc6>v3>dap1. FOB,DFC.
From: "James Brogdon" <jbrogdon@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Matchbox Twenty Cleveland Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:42:45 -0500 Just got back from Chicago, headed that way again on Friday for the Wallflowers.. Cleveland is 4 ½ hours drive for me, if anyone wants some Matchbox Twenty Tickets, e-mail me off list. James jbrogdon@sbcglobal.net <mailto:jbrogdon@sbcglobal.net>
From: Blackpete@aol.com Subject: fs: m1 with all original everything, repairmaster warranty. Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 12:48:57 -0400 fs: sony pcm-m1 dat recorder, purchased from Sonic Sense 11/13/00, with 2.5 years left on RepairMaster extended warranty. I have the original box, packing, sony paperwork, the bag the paperwork came in, the original 4.5 volt power source, cable, nimh charger, the two original AA nimh batteries, which work fine, the pleather case, and the M1. The M1 is in nice cosmetic condition, just a little scuff on the face, no dings or dents. Lightly used as a backup to either my p-1 or hhb portadat, I estimate about 200 hours max. Looking for 550 shipped, obo. Selling this because I never use it, and the HHB is a tank. Thanks, Marc. Contact me at blackpete@aol.com
From: Philip Smoker <psmoker43@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: tour dates Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Hi, all. Just my abbreviated thoughts on the tour date debate... Including tour dates in digests that are archived for future use can be a great resource to people like myself that have attempted to compile a chronology of a band's live shows over the years, since few artists keep their old tour dates on their websites forever. Take care, *phiL* BWT: Fly Pan Am, 10/06/02, The Ottobar, Baltimore, MD {csb-mod>D8} [disc is mistracked in one place]. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
From: "Boogie Shafer" <boogie@dubious.com> Subject: tape jesse malin Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:53:48 -0700 saw this guy for the first time last week and i'm fired up to hear some more have no idea if he's "taper-friendly" in the stand sense of the word, but if you tape in the honorable style it doesnt really matter ;) 4/22/2003 SF is posting to usenet alt.binaries.music.shn currently and i'll take 5 b&ps for the bandwidth/shn impaired http://www.jessemalin.com upcoming tour dates: May 6 Stephen's Talkhouse / Easthampton, LI Jesse Malin & Band May 8 IOTA / Arlington, VA Jesse Malin & Band May 9 Bowery Ballroom / NYC Jesse Malin & Band w/ Tommy Stinson May 10 Northstar / Philadelphia, PA Jesse Malin & Band May 11 T.T. The Bears / Boston, MA Jesse Malin & Band May 12 TBA / Burlington, VT Jesse Malin & Band May 13 TBA / Toronto, CA Jesse Malin & Band June 20 Housing Works Benefit / NYC Jesse Malin & Band boogie p.s. --- if you talk to him, ask him to play "XMAS"
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