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Originally Posted by wax
did you hack your ipod? i was reading something about this. i didnt really understand though as i know nothing about ipods.
is the hack easy to do?
whats 24/96? is that good?
how does it compare to md recordings?
ah, then what do you use to edit the recording? do ipods let you edit it? or do you need to import it into logic or cubase or something?
i heard that you can plug a mic into the headphone jack on an ipod. is this right?
why the fuck dont apple sell the damn things already set up for it if its so easy? i would already have one if they just sorted themselves out.
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24/96 is 24 bit and a 96 khz sampling rate. think of sampling rates like film. the standard became 44.1 khz because that was the point where the ability to capture audio data became smooth and with clarity. it is outdated now but cd's are still mastered to 44.1 khz which is 44100 samples per second. as with film the standard became 24 frames per second because this is tha rate where jitter dissappeared.
24/96 is alot better than any MD recording. MD's record at a fairly similar rate to an mp3 at 320kbps so there is some compression added to make the data fit onto the disk. if you were to record at 24/96 on a mini disk you would only get about 20 mins worth of material onto a disk, however because the compression is built in to most md records there is no getting past this. only highend pro MD recorders can record at CD quality but no-one does this becuase the freedom of editing and the time you can fit on a disk is pointless.
no you cannot edit with an ipod, the question is why would you. you can rip it straight to your computer and edit in audacity, cubase, digital performer, protools, cake walk what ever you want or have.
yes you can get a mic to plug straight into an ipod, but for recording shows in the way i think that you want to, the quality of the mics on the market for this are pretty damn average, however if you have stereo jacks to a mini jack you can do perfectly releasable quality recordings in an engineer will give you a stereo feed from the desk.
apple don't sell the ipods already set up this purely for stategic business partnership reasons, griffin who make alot of the accessories are in bed with them. also it avoids apple having any legal issues arise from people bootlegging shows. because the whole file sharing napster issues of 10 years ago would move across to the portable device industry. people that own portable music devices on the whole won't buy things like flash ram recorders to record shows, but if the whole population of the portable music device owners such as ipods had the ability to bootleg anything at high quality there would be a mass of legal issues arise and they would be made to change their systems anyway.
and yes it is not that hard to hack the ipod, i tried it on a friends and it was fine but it is hard to recover back to standard after the linux format. i haven't worried about doing this on my own because i have access to all the equipment i need.
hope that has answered your questions.
edit: most good soundcards now can do 24/192 and this is shorty to be superseeded by the new sony Direct Stream Digital system that samples at 2.4 ghz. this means that digital recordings will get close to the tonal quality and frequency depth that analogue can do. a good recording that demonstrates this is Orff's Carmina Burana conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas of the San Fran Cisco Symphony Orchestra and director of the American Mavericks music festival (the recording is done with the Cleveland Orchestra and is the best recordings of this piece that I have ever heard. Sony Classical SK92602.
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