![]() It, too, can autotrack or you can manually trigger a track. It's simple software that can simultaneously record an MP3 for uploads and track-based WAV files for burning to a CD. If you are interested in PC recording, check out EZTracker CD. Another cool feature is that since it has two recorders, you can do continuous recording: when a CD fills, it will automatically rollover to a blank CD in the other drive. You can configure it to automatically insert a track every so-many-minutes, and you can manually insert a track whenever you want. It provides 1:1 high-speed duplication with one button press. At the end of the service, you press stop and the disc automatically finalizes. It couldn't be simpler to operate: power on, wait for bootup, insert disc, press record. I've had one in my church for about six years now with no signs of failure. The price seems kind of steep at $700, but this unit has proven to be very reliable. and Victor Company of Japan, Limited." The bottom of the label says "For Professional Use." As for realtime recorders, I recommend the Microboards CopyWriter Live. ![]() I don't know that all of the CDs marketed by JVC are made by TY, but the ones I have (as well as the Newegg ones linked to above) are labeled as being made in Japan by "Victor Advanced Media Co., Ltd. Even so, I prefer the regular line for music CDs but use the value line for data CDs. Reports I've read are that the value line is still better than most other brands. The value line is the CDs & DVDs that do not meet TY's stringent specs. There are two product lines: the regular line and the "value" line. I believe Taiyo Yuden CDs & DVDs are marketed under the JVC brand now. FWIW! When I'm burning CDs for state HS music festivals I go through spindles of Taiyo Yuden CDs like they were animal cookies! -) Many people who burn a lot of music CDs favor CDs with a darker blue or green side, and flinch when they see a burning side that is nearly pure silver. A common rule of thumb is that burning at high speeds favors a thinner dye layer while burning at low speeds favors a thicker dye layer. When you are burning data CDs, the burn speeds can easily reach 20 to 40x. When people burn CDs on a computer, the usual actual burning speeds are 7x and up. The big difference in burning blank CDs for a CD recorder is the burning speed, which is for real-time recording by definition 1X. You can record for months on the same piece of media and keep many backups from earlier weeks on the same drive. One other nice thing about burning flash - 16 GB media has a nominal capacity of about 24 hours, which means that you don't have to worry about extra-long services or starting the recording as close as possible to the beginning of the service. At music festivals, my favorite backup device is an Ikey SDHC/USB flash-based audio recorder which is an incredible buy for a professional grade device with balanced analog I/O and in a 1U rack case. At church we burn a video DVD as a backup and also to provide video when appropriate. The big thing about burning audio CDs of live events is the number of chances you get to do it right: exactly once! Some of us use backup recorders. The concept of "professional grade" is only part of the difference between buying blank CDs for a CD recorder and doing what your wife probably dones, which is buying blank CDs for use with computers. Any sugestions or advice would be most appreciated! Thank-you. We want to stay simple from an operator point of view as well so digital audio recorders are probaley out of the question. As we could get an entry level recorder for around $300 it my not make sense to pursue a repair on the existing unit. Any nifty options or equipment choices I should consider. The recorder was puchased about five years ago for around $500 - we thought we would get more longevity out of it based on once a week usage but that's just the way things go with electronic items sometimes I guess. I am afraid I do not have the model number of our recorder nor duplicator with me. So do we repair or replace? We need to keep the output media as cd's. At this point we feel the unit itself is the issue. We have tried to clean the laser as well. We have tried many different brands of cd media, including Verbatims, with no improvement. Recently the recorder has been unreliable and we have been getting a lot of random failed sessions with disc errors in the middle of the service. The service is split real time into tracks for easier manipulation for the end users and to separate and upload the sermon to the website. At the end of the service the disc is finalized and then duplicates are made on a tower duplicator. Currently we have the feed out of the board go to a mini-mixer and then into a TEAC cd recorder running in real time. We record our services for distribution to our congregation members who are not able to attend Sunday morning Worship.
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