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Subj:Re: [Mellotronists] digital recording
Date:12/19/2002 1:19:03 PM Eastern Standard Time
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HI folks,
   I personally do not care for 22.5khz as a sampling frequency if it is to represent a full bandwidth recording.  Bit reduction and lower fs are great for "lofi" stuff.  I have sampled my tron and converted to a number of bit length/sampling rates and 22.5 sucks.  Mp3 encoders are not all the same.  I rely on Bias Peak for mp3 encoding and I always make 'em as large as I can, they still end up being pretty small.  Interestingly, itunes does a pretty good job of mp3 conversion.
    Just bought the Yamaha CRW-F1 cd burner with "Audio Master recording" mode and yes, the difference is stunning compared to a cd burned on a conventional  drive.

Fritz

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Speaking of all this digital recording stuff, I know that there are a lot of you out there who would like to know more about the ins and outs of digital recording so that you can record your mellotrons.

There's a new CDROM from Synth-Tek for $20 which goes over the setup and use of a digital home studio in great detail.  This company puts out similar CDROMs for learning how to use Kurzweil keyboards, and they do an excellent job.  I've used them, and they are much more interesting than reading the manual, and are a very effective training tool.  The graphics are accurate and the tutorials are worth every penny.   If they have done a similar job on this "Digital Home Studio" CDROM, it will be well worth the 20 bucks.  It's on my Christmas list.

Here's the link:

http://www.synth-tek.com/mhs.html

Then, once you learn how to do all this, you can record a tune for the Mellotron Project CD.

Ken M.