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How good was that recording though? I mean I am sure if you plugged in a decent microphone it would be good. But through the headphones? These days most phones
by Melatonic 4y ago
How good was that recording though? I mean I am sure if you plugged in a decent microphone it would be good. But through the headphones?
These days most phones are awesome recorders so I am not sure we really lost that much - I totally get what you are saying for that brief period where ipods were the norm (before phones).
- layer8 4y agoMost MiniDisc recorders had digital inputs, which means you could record your CDs or output from a PC sound card losslessly (before ATRAC encoding, which of course is lossy). While you could also do microphone recordings (I think), that wasn’t the primary use case of the recording feature, at least in my experience. There were various MiniDisc-based dictation machines targeted at business users though (simpler ones than in TFA).
- gizajob 4y agoThe recording was really almost perfect. It was compressed with ATRAC3, which was Sony's codec akin to MP3, and probably about 160kbps CBR, I think. The quality was pretty high, anyway. They did some clever stuff to hide the artefacts, and I think some minidisc recorders even recorded to .wav by the end of the format's life. Nevertheless, you could record digital stereo audio live on a device smaller than a smartphone. I knew some electronic musicians at the time who would play gigs live running sounds off of a couple of minidisc's, and a lot of laptop artists would have a minidisc plugged in as reserve in case of some sort of technical failure with their laptop in a club, which happened frequently back in those heady days around the turn of the millennium.