Posted by SignOfZeta on November 24, 2016 at 00:03:39 EST in reply to Ah, yeah, those are all over the place. They rarely do anything a portable recorder won't do but they stay hooked up all the time and have huge remotes which makes all that recording and titling stuff way easier. I have a MDS-JE520 I just used this morning to dub a copy of Blonde on Blonde before work today. I got it for free out of the recycling bin at WCBN. The analog input is blown for some reason. I haven't tried to fix it yet. (n/t) from SignOfZeta.
I stand corrected. I just read the manual for this thing and it has amongst its features a six second "time machine" which basically caches the most recent six seconds and when you hit record it adds those seconds to the beginning of the recording. Very handy for live recording or from the radio. When I think about it, this is actually a very easy thing to build into any MD recorder without any extra hardware specifically for it due to the way MD was designed (a read speed faster than required and the RAM to backup the difference) It's surprising that it took six years to appear. RELATED: An observation I've made recently is that anything which requires a manual to use takes longer to learn than more user friendly or GUI devices but is usually much faster and more enjoyable to use at the expert level, after there is nothing left to learn. My SLR is an obvious example of something that showed me that. Another would me my Tascam Portastudio. It had a huge manual that took forever to read but now that I know every feature on the thing it makes Logic Pro feel like a slow motion straight jacket by comparison.
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