Audio: Hardware
Hardware for recording, transferring, or playing back sound
Media Supply: Archiving, Paper Labels and Sharpies
Media Supply’s Archiving Advice
Our company has been in the CD-R business for years and we have worked with lots of clients who use discs for archiving. Here are some tips we recommend to clients….1. Anytime you plan on long time storage, don’t use paper labels. [...]
2. Try to go with a true gold disc if you want to seriously archive. A gold reflective layer disc with Phthalocyanine dye has a shelf life of almost 300 years, compared to under 100 for a silver Phthalocyanine dye disc, and less than 30 for a Cyanine discs. Basically the metal in the silver disc can oxidize, and the gold doesn’t, so no breakdown of the refective layer. Watch out for some gold discs that are just a gold screen print on the surface. MAM-A and Hi-Space both use real gold reflective layers. If you can’t go gold, at least go with a silver Phthalocyanine disc.
3. In general avoid writing on discs with Sharpies. Use water based markers [...]
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 29, 2004 in • Audio • Audio: Hardware
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Different tape recording speeds
Tape Speeds for different formats as measured in inches per second, or centimeters per second. Tape formats range from reel-to-reel to cassettes.
Cassettes go the slowest of the bunch, at 1-7/8 inches/second. Microcasettes aren’t mentioned here (but are in this 1983 microcassette review), but they go half the speed of cassettes, at 15/16 inches per second, or even slower: 1/2 inch per second.)
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 16, 2004 in
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Media College: Vocal Microphones
Info about Vocal Microphones, the best kind of microphones to use in interview situations.
Note: there’s Lots at the Media College site to get a backgrounder on audio, microphones and so forth.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 05, 2004 in
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Turn your iPod into a digital recording device
Record oral history conversations using Griffin Technology’s iTalk, which turns your iPod into a Voice Recorder.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 23, 2004 in
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