DAT-heads Digest #318, Volume #7 Fri, 3 Dec 04 21:50:01 EST Contents: ISO: Skinny Puppy shows from their current tour (A.M.) Re: DAT2WAV (Greg) PC media players?? (a good dvd player) (CjC) Re: Any mac users, some questions about buying one. (Jens Ljungkvist) Which stereo handheld microphone would you buy? (Roald Baudoux) re: Sony D-8 (Nick Georges) ISO "morning becomes eclectic" shows on KCRW ("Enrico Perissinotto") re: DAT2WAV ("Teh Fam") Sony D-8 (is discontinued) (Jason Carroll) ISO: unreleased Juliana Hatfield album "God's Foot" (JPollQs@aol.com) Masada Festival at Tonic (NYC) Next Week! ("Rich Gomes") ISO: Mood Cultivation Project shows ("Daniel Brewer") Followup: DAT2WAV (scoper@optonline.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: A.M. Subject: ISO: Skinny Puppy shows from their current tour Reply-To: AdamM@netphoria.org Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:17:53 -0800 (PST) Skinny Puppy just finished up a 2nd go round the US in 2004. I taped them last time they were in Anaheim in 7/4/04 but I am looking for any other tapes from this past tour. please let me know as i have plenty other to trade as well. Adam __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Greg Subject: Re: DAT2WAV Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:54:04 -0500 I have no idea if the software is still available... anyone know if anyone is selling these drives with any sort of warrantee or guarantee? Last time I bought one, it never worked correctly..... any info is appreciated. Greg ------------------------------ From: CjC Subject: PC media players?? (a good dvd player) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:45:36 -0800 (PST) can anyone recommend a good video player for my PC? i have roxio 6 which is useless. and windows media player freezes when opening a vob file, so does my real one player. and quicktime wont open it. i tried divx, and that freezes up also. thanks in advance. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Jens Ljungkvist Subject: Re: Any mac users, some questions about buying one. Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:30:32 +0100 On 2004-12-03, at 03.50, Digestifier wrote: > I'm looking into getting an iBook and I was wondering > if anyone was satisfied/dissatisfied, and how they > feel about it. I'll be using it for school work and > hopefully audio editing of the shows I tape. > Eventually when I financially can, I'd like to get > into taping on it too. Let me know how you like it for > everyday computer work as well and anything else I > should know before I buy. Hi! You couldn't think of a better solution for yourself. At the moment I=20 think the iBook is the best priced laptop there is when comparing features and quality. Myself i run an old Powerbook G4 which in january will be 4 years old=20 (!) and I'm running the latest version of Mac OS X. So is my girlfriend, but she has a same age iBook. We have changed our batteries mine was only running for an our after 3=20= years, so i decided to get a new one. Of course, you will need an audiocard for the iBook. And there's alot=20 of them out there. You can't get a PCMCIA card since the iBook doesn't have such a port, but you can get a=20 Firewire or USB-card. The iBook will run most of them nicely, even the bigger 8-input Firewire interfaces. You will also be able to cope with school and not having to fiddle=20 around with viruses. If you get a virusmail just put it in the trash. Also, I'm not sure if you get this in USA,=20 but in Sweden there are student discounts on Apple's products. Maybe you 'll save some more money? Greetz ___________________________ Jens Ljungkvist Vision=E4r http://resmed.jensochsophia.nu/ <-- Res med oss!! http://jens.ljungkvist.nu/blog <-- Min Blog! http://www.kulturmejeriet.se/ <-- Mejeriet ------------------------------ From: Roald Baudoux Subject: Which stereo handheld microphone would you buy? Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:30:40 +0100 Hello, I am looking for opinion and advice before buying a handheld stereo microphone. It is to be connected on a digital recorder with phantom powering and low-noise preamplifiers. So far, I have the following information/opinions: 1) Audio-Technica AT822 or 825 : good microphones, fair price, maybe a little weak in sensitivity. 2) Sennheiser MCE 82 : good microphone, however with much equivalent noise level (32 dB SPL) 3) Sennheiser MKP-44 has a poor low end (sensitivity drops from 300 Hz downwards). 4) Shure VP-88. Very good sound, interesting choice between several configurations of MS matrixing. However, very weak sensitivity (0.5 mV/PA!) and high price (over 1.000 US$) 5) Sanken CMS-7s : very good specifications (high sensitivity) but costs too much. Maybe in second hand? 6) Sony ECM-MS5 : seems a little bit weak in the low frequencies, but has high sensitivity? 7) Sony ECM-999P : no idea! 8) Rode NT-4 : very good specifications and XY stereo. Some people pretend you can hold it in the hand without creating manipulation noise in the recording. Is it true? So, any opinion or suggestion is welcome! (especially about NT-4, ECM-999P and ECM-5MS or AT-825 vs AT-822) Thank you in advance. Best regards, Roald Baudoux ------------------------------ From: Nick Georges Subject: re: Sony D-8 Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:03:51 -0500 I think all sony portable dat decks are now discontinued..and parts are going to be hard to come by. same goes for the dappy. replacement? head right over to eBay and snatch up a $168 creative labs Nomad JB3 .... 20 or 40gb models. get a hosa s/pdif format converter (to feed it a bit perfect toslink signal, as that is its digital input) and say good-bye to media costs, maintenance costs, broken anythings, real time transfers, tape misloads..yadda yadda yadda. and say hello to firewire transfers in 3 minutes. You'll also need to find an extra battery for it (they take two at once...for about 5-6 hours of record time). there are more of these in use by tapers these days than DAT decks, or so it would seem when I am w/a bunch of tapers at any given show. ------------------------------ From: "Enrico Perissinotto" Subject: ISO "morning becomes eclectic" shows on KCRW Reply-To: enrico@pemo.com Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:39:25 +0100 As subject says, a friend of mine and I are looking for someone who has= recorded, and will do it in the future, the shows broadcasted during this= program by this radio station. Please contact privately for this matter. Enrico DAT list at www.pemo.com/enrico_dat.htm, if interested ask for the updated= version ------------------------------ From: "Teh Fam" Subject: re: DAT2WAV Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 07:49:29 -0600 dat2wav isnt a program 4 playin dats really, its cumbersome & archaic, its really only good 4 dumping them 2a hard drive (at 2times the speed) the dat2wav guys STOPPED supportin it along time back (atleast 3 years w/out any updates) but usually the guy 'chris' i think his name was would answer emails 2sell it, atleast the 2years ago when i broke down & finally bought my copy a good windows GUI program is vDAT by edward 'sumthin in german' who does still support his program (no updates in a year or so but says hed like 2 keep workin on it) & he does respond to emails, & if you have a student ID hell email the program 2u 4 $50 im nolonger a student otherwise i would have done this back when i bought dat2wav.... anyho i can prolly dig up a dat2wav copy w/ the 'magic' .dll that makes it fully working if you still need it (wish sum1 would do the same thin 4me w/ vDAT ;) ------------------------------ From: Jason Carroll Subject: Sony D-8 (is discontinued) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 06:42:50 -0800 (PST) when Sony announced that it was going to discontinue the D8, i remember hearing (perhaps even reading on DAT-heads) that some outsourced repair companies (maybe Oade Brothers or Sonic Sense) said that they tried to stock up on as many replacement parts as they could... the company that mentioned this, said that they hoped to have replacement parts for up to 2 years after the D8 was discontinued... sorry that I cannot be more specific in my answer... but at least there is some hope... you should check around with Oade Brothers, Sonic Sense, American Digital, Masterpiece A/V, micsupply.com... various places like that and see if they can help you with repairs... (there's other places... btu i can't think of them right now). ******************************************** From: "cougercat" Subject: Sony D-8 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:27:40 -0800 Hi All, I recently sent my Sony D-8 into Sony in California to have the heads replaced and the Mic connector changed out. A few days ago, I received the unit back with a note attatched saying that the parts were no longer available. Does anybody know if Sony is still manufacturing parts for these machines? Are there any repair facilities that charge a flat fee to repair them? What is a good portable machine to have now days for good recordings? Thanks --jeff __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: JPollQs@aol.com Subject: ISO: unreleased Juliana Hatfield album "God's Foot" Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:03:22 EST Are there any fans of Juliana Hatfield that have located a clean copy of her unreleased 1997 album "God's Foot?" Mixes of these Bearsville Studio sessions were circulated for review prior to Atlantic Records cancelling the release, so I'm hoping they are out there somewhere. I have access to a large cache of Juliana Hatfield audio and video masters to trade, if anyone can help with this. Stu ------------------------------ From: "Rich Gomes" Subject: Masada Festival at Tonic (NYC) Next Week! Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:56:55 -0500 Anyone taping this please get in touch! have plenty to offer in trade and would be willing to help pay for tickets. Here are the details: JOHN ZORN'S MASADA MINI-FESTIVAL - The Book of Masada Volume II: Newly written compositions!!! at Tonic from Wednesday December 8th to Saturday December 11th, sets at 8 & 10pm each night!!! Featuring an incredible cast with Jamie Saft (keyboard), Ben Perowsky (drums), John Zorn (alto sax), Erik Friedlander (cello), Ikue Mori (drum machine/power book), Dave Douglas (trumpet), Marc Ribot (guitar), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Greg Cohen (bass), Trevor Dunn (bass), Shanir Blumenkranz (bass), Jon Madof (guitar) & Mathias Kunzli (drums). Ten years ago John Zorn composed the first hundred Masada songs in one year. Since September of this year, Mr. Zorn has composed another 240 songs for Second Volume of Masada, he remains immensely inspired & still the book grows! This incredible four-day festival will feature 80 new Masada tunes, ten per set, two sets per night. This is a truly historic occasion and it is John Zorn's Hanukah present to us! This WILL sell out, get your tickets while you still can! Rich ------------------------------ From: "Daniel Brewer" Subject: ISO: Mood Cultivation Project shows Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:26:27 GMT I'm looking for some Mood Cultivation Project shows on cdr. Please drop me a line if you have some, and would like to trade. Thanks, Daniel ------------------------------ From: scoper@optonline.net Subject: Followup: DAT2WAV Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:11:02 -0500 Thanks to all who have emailed me with suggestions and comments. I have heard from the author of the program, so it is still available. I'm waiting on the arrival of the hardware to test it (and also VDAT, which many have recommended. I'll keep you posted. 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