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Help Needed: Zip Discs

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Started by Dennis (Dudley Less) in Musicians (Gear, Tabs & Lyrics)

Anyone out there got any experience of recording with a multi-track machine that uses zip discs?

I have borrowed my brother’s Boss BR8 and I want to record a band rehearsal as-live into this unit and I want to know a little bit about running times and how much will fit on a disc - so I can make sure I have enough blanks ready on the day.

Posted on Mon, 14 January 2008 at 10:10

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Auto_Surgery (Andy) wrote:

How big are the disks? 100MB, 250MB 750MB?

Posted on Mon, 14 January 2008 at 12:58

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

Well I will need to buy some, that’s the problem really, I don’t know what to get.

He’s given me a 100mb one but he says he has some stuff on there already and he doesn’t know how much space is left, so really I’m just going to get myself some new ones - or just one disc if that will do what I need it to do. As I understand it, all we want to do is record live from a stereo feed from the PA - i.e. just two tracks, left and right. We will probably need two or three songs for the demo so we’ll want to record maybe four so we can pick the best. I have no idea how much space on a disc this kind of thing takes up…

What I am getting at is - If I just pick up a couple of 100mb discs, am I going to leave myself short for space?

Posted on Mon, 14 January 2008 at 13:08

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Simon (Simon) wrote:

Mate to help give you an idea, it depends on the sample rate that you are recording at. CD’s are at 44.1Khz 16Bit and they are stereo… a 700mb disc will hold roughly 70-74 minutes of music. So your 100mb zip disc at that sample rate and only recording stereo will let you have 10 minutes of audio.

Make sense?

Posted on Mon, 14 January 2008 at 21:22

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

Perfect sense, appreciated! ;)

Posted on Mon, 14 January 2008 at 23:07

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Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

Just to add, that the older zip drives won’t play the larger disk sizes, apparently. No idea how you can check but it’s worth keeping in mind.

Posted on Tue, 15 January 2008 at 18:07

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

Ah now that is bad news…But very glad you tipped me off! Nice one!

Posted on Wed, 16 January 2008 at 10:35

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Auto_Surgery (Andy) wrote:

The drive should say which version on the flap or on the facia - Zip100, Zip250, Zip750 - I think!

Posted on Wed, 16 January 2008 at 12:30

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