mini disc

[pauly p]

everyone keeps telling me I should get a sony mini disc player - why do I need one?

[Shooms]

Buggered if I know mate - never used one but to me they seem to be this decades Betamax.......

[grad]

nah shooms they come in really handy.... me table used to have a nasty wobble before....

[BEN-JAMMIN']

i bought one a couple of months ago, got a good deal at unbeatable.co.uk. got a walkman(basic silver sony) and hi fi seperate for £130.

the only reason i bought it was because it was a good deal and you can make good recordings on them, which will stay good quality.
but then again if you've got a decent tape deck i wouldnt bother.

the thing is if all your mates have got 'em thats fine but if i do a new tape i want to give out, no-ones got a minidisk so i have to convert it to tape anyway.

the next recording bit of kit i'm gonna get is a vynil cutter, there about 2-3 grand i think. got to be worth the money though.

does anyone know anyone whos got one of these or know anything about them????

[Dj M Jaxx]

Originally posted by BEN-JAMMIN'


the next recording bit of kit i'm gonna get is a vynil cutter, there about 2-3 grand i think. got to be worth the money though.

does anyone know anyone whos got one of these or know anything about them????

Check out DJ Mag Ben m8, I have seen them in there now and again fella

They seem a lot of money, and not quite sure where you can get virgin viynal to press em on mate

The other thing is, the fecker dont wax the Viynal afterwards, wich will also effect the quality

My advice is you can get about 1000 pressed these days for around £500 quid, and waxed at the same time

So unless you are going to spend money on a waxer aswell as presser, then you may as well stick with getting someone to press it for ya mukka

M Jaxx:

[hektik]

mini discs are excellent. they are smaller than a walkman or cd player, they can hold up to 4 cd's worth of tuneage, which means no lugging about loads a cd's (and all the good times cd's are re recorded onto one lovely disk!!)

also u can record stuff from the internet eg MP3's, can re record loads of times, u can edit the length of tracks, and what order they go into, delete certian tracks, without messing up the other ones, which if ur anything like me and u like making compilations of all ur favorite tuneage, makes it a darn sight easier.

plus u can even record interviews etc onto it and edit it all around: which is how i recorded my interview with altern8. its being edited at the moment, and hoepfully will go up onto gifted after edting for swear words etc.

so its very very good!!

[pauly p]

cheers for that everyone. much appreciated - whats the best way I can make cds of my own mixes - havent got a pc yet? can places transfer from tape etc...?

[Jonno]

I really rate minidisk's especially for recording mixes. Their versatility is un-beatable. The sound quality on the output of a mixer is never really going to be up to much (compared with a single deck for instance). As such, the sampling rate of minidisc is more than adequate if you're going through a mixer. After you've finished a mix you can then split the separate tracks down at your leisure. I've also got a CD writer hi-fi separate. Using either an optical or a co-ax link and a "digital-synchro" feature between the minidisc and the cd writer, cd's are recorded with all the tracks in place.

[butty]

portable mini discs r mint if ya r playin oot places all ya need is a lead n ya can record ya set wherever ya go. gonna have 2 get me paws on 1 soon

how much does a half decent 1 that records go for these days??

[hektik]

butty: i got a recordable portable for 120 notes, but that was with all the leads plus a lead to stick in the computer AND ten discs...

have seen fairly decent ones for about 70, and my mate dave sells them for 40 lol lol

[butty]

wild i thought i was lookin at a couple of ton. il have 2 get savin the pennies for 1, cheers for that bud

[doolz]

Originally posted by Shoomster
Buggered if I know mate - never used one but to me they seem to be this decades Betamax.......

hahaha betamax were actually better quality picture (industry standard infact) than vhs but were more exspensive so they died out
pity that

[ste30]

im considering one of these...
http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=362

a lot better than mp3 players atm
bout same size as mindisc
main difference is it plays mini - cds, which can be burnt on any cd-burner
they hold bout 180Mb so bout 40 mp3s at like 5Mb each
the CDs r £7 for 5
as opposed to flashmedia cards which r like £50+ for 64Mb aint they?
can get em from argos for £99

[grad]

why is it better than mp3 players?

£7 for 5 disks..are they re-writeable??

you can get a 20 Gig mp3 player, about the same size, that will hold about 4,000 mp3's ...no burning or disks involved..

but the price is nice

[Dj Ben Fisher]

aye mini disks are deffo best for recordin ! just one thing peeps if ysa dont know they are gonna be stoppin makin mini disks dont know when this is gonna happen but it deffo is , as i dont think they really ever took off as much as they thought they would prolly cos of the price of em !! but we swear by mini disk recordins at GT !! ours cost about £250 but that was ages ago !! can get decent ones for about a £100... and the other bonus ya can record on the same mini disk about a 1000000 times !!!! which is handy when usin em for gt also !!!