Please I beg of you, for the love of god HELP ME!! For my obviously extremely heinous sins I own a Sony RCD-W100 CD recorder, like this one:
http://www.srtl.co.uk/srtl/sonyrcdw100.html
Fair enough it does make good copies. But I use it for mixing down onto from e.g. cassettes, vinyl, etc. And it's in this analogue recording mode that it's shitty, shitty limitations start to show up. For instance, it automatically flips out of record mode after a cewrtain length of time. Let's say 2 minutes. Could be less. So you're there, checking levels, and bam, it goes into standby. By the time you've got it back into record mode a fair few seconds have elapsed, when a level spike could well have occurred. So you have to go back to the source signal and rewind it a few seconds to...you get me.
Perhaps worst of all though is the bizarre and teeth grindingly tedious security measure that ensures you can't copy tracks from a CDRW onto a CDR. I can't be bothered to go into full details here because I'll just get pissed off all over again. Suffice to say that it's enough to drive you round the f***ing bend.
Now, I know I can probably cut all this crap out by involving computers and what-not, but that's not the way I want to go. What I want, basically, is a CDRW equivalent of the old fashioned twin tape deck.
Just prior to posting this I noticed there's a Sony RCD-W500. Does anyone know how this differs from the RCD-W100?? I'd be willing to buy one if it ironed the (serious) creases inherent in the W100 - but I'm having difficulty finding info online.
I also found a Philips CDR775 - so if anyone's got any experience of that please let me know.
I appreciate my needs here are more than a little dated, but please - I'd dearly like to work this way if at all possible. Thanks y'all! ;-)
http://www.srtl.co.uk/srtl/sonyrcdw100.html
Fair enough it does make good copies. But I use it for mixing down onto from e.g. cassettes, vinyl, etc. And it's in this analogue recording mode that it's shitty, shitty limitations start to show up. For instance, it automatically flips out of record mode after a cewrtain length of time. Let's say 2 minutes. Could be less. So you're there, checking levels, and bam, it goes into standby. By the time you've got it back into record mode a fair few seconds have elapsed, when a level spike could well have occurred. So you have to go back to the source signal and rewind it a few seconds to...you get me.
Perhaps worst of all though is the bizarre and teeth grindingly tedious security measure that ensures you can't copy tracks from a CDRW onto a CDR. I can't be bothered to go into full details here because I'll just get pissed off all over again. Suffice to say that it's enough to drive you round the f***ing bend.
Now, I know I can probably cut all this crap out by involving computers and what-not, but that's not the way I want to go. What I want, basically, is a CDRW equivalent of the old fashioned twin tape deck.
Just prior to posting this I noticed there's a Sony RCD-W500. Does anyone know how this differs from the RCD-W100?? I'd be willing to buy one if it ironed the (serious) creases inherent in the W100 - but I'm having difficulty finding info online.
I also found a Philips CDR775 - so if anyone's got any experience of that please let me know.
I appreciate my needs here are more than a little dated, but please - I'd dearly like to work this way if at all possible. Thanks y'all! ;-)