Results for Marantz

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 28th, 2008:

• Musical Furnishings – The Musical Rumba Series – Design your own personal drum table with durable, interchangeable and rearrangeable percussion inserts. Choose from four different sized tables to suit your musical and space needs. The smallest table accepts four of the smaller instruments and the largest accepts sixteen.

Musical Furnishings – The Musical Rumba Series

• Zoom H2, Marantz PMD 620 And Sony PCM D50: Interior Vs. Exterior Recording – For rounds two and three of the Field Recorder Shootout, Owen O'Malley tests out our three recorders to a large indoor shopping mall, and to the tracks. . . the train tracks!
• Abletonator…coin-op electro shock… – Jr Savage's acrade style Ableton rig.
• BeatSpinner 2.0 – allows the user to sequence drum loops and other sound loops and then witness their playback as the interface rotates physically before their eyes.
• Functional Guitars Made From Video Game Consoles – So, you've got a few broken game consoles laying around collecting dust and have always wanted a unique guitar, why not spend a few weekends building your own?

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 25th, 2008:

• Zoom H2, Marantz PMD 620 And Sony PCM D50: Shootout Down By The River – In part one, Owen O'Malley takes the Zoom H2, Marantz PMD 620, and Sony PCM D50 out on the town to see how they hold up to Chicago's wind.

Zoom H2, Marantz PMD 620 and Sony PCM D50

• SlapYak’s LED Bass Guitar – DIY LED color-changing Bass.
• DIY Cheap-o Looper Effect – Arduino + keychain digital recorder.
• Altoids Tin Guitar – DIY guitar made with an Altoids Tin, banister rail spacers, guitar strings, an old BIC pen, some plastic, bolts & washers, piezo and a 1/8 mono jack.
• AVR based TDA7313 Audio processor control – The idea of this project was to construct independent audio processor which can be embedded in any audio system with ability to control settings with simple button interface with menu preview in LCD.
• Robert Crumb on Collecting – from the book, “Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting” by Brett Milano.

Goldbaby Productions has released another free sample pack.

Hugo writes:

I bought an old Marantz cassette machine to muck around with… So logically I had to hear what the 808 would do to it!

The Cassette 808 features 21 x 24 bit samples of a Roland TR-808 recorded to this Marantz deck.

Check this demo mp3 to hear what The Cassette 808 sounds like.

Visit Goldbaby’s free stuff page to download this sample pack.

Sony has announced the PCM-D50 Digital Recorder, a powerful, compact version of Sony’s flagship PCM-D1 Digital Field Recorder.

Sony PCM-D50 features

• 24 bit / 96 kHz recording in standard .WAV file format
• 4 GB Built-in Memory – records up to 6 hours @ 44.1 – 16 bit
• Two-Position Electret Condenser Microphones x-Y and Wide-Stereo Polar Patterns
• LCD Digital Peak Metering
• Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo Slot
• MP3 Playback
• Digital Pitch Control
• SPDIF Digital Input and Output
• PC/MAC Compatible – File Transfer via High Speed USB
• 5 second pre-recording buffer

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