Digital Recording with A Mixer, a Digital Recorder and A CD Burner:

Marantz PMD-680, Superscope PAC 770 and a Superscope CDR-500

• Connect a microphone (up to four possible) to the Superscope PAC 770 plus you also have a CD and Auxliary inputs as well.
• Insert a Jamey Aebersold play-along CD into the Superscope PAC 770.
• Connect (wire) the Superscope PAC 770 sound system to a Marantz PMD-680 Digital Recorder with a PCMCIA hard disk card.
• Connect (wire) the Superscope PMD-680 Digital Recorder to a Superscope CDR-500.
• Now possible to record the Jamey Aebersold play-along or a Band-In-Box recording from a computer and still mix 1 to 4 soloists simultantously and mix them because there are individual volume controls. You will end up with two recordings. .WAV and/or compressed MP2 files on the digital recorder and audio tracks on the CD burner.
• Put a blank CD-R or CD-RW in the CD burner and the disc will be initialized automatically. Now it is possible to record a digital recording for insertion on a desktop computer for web posting or future CD burning plus create a CD recording "on-the-fly."
• CD Burning instructions.
1. On the CD burner, please Record mode button and then press the Input button and select analog mode.
2. Press the Record and Play buttons simultaneously to start the CD recording.
3. Play the Jamey Aebersold CD on the PAC 770 and then the soloist jams and records while the CD burner is recording everything played.
4. Hit the stop button on the CD burner when finished recording.
5. Hit the Final button to finalize this recording so that it can play on any CD player or wait to the end of the multi-soloist recording session to actually finalize this master CD since you are going to record many different soloists
6. Put the student's freshly recorded/burned CD into the play drive. This CD can now be the master CD for the entire recording session if you don't finalize it at this time.
7. Put a blank CD-R or CD-RW in the burner's recording drive and this disc will be initialized automatically.
8. Hit the burner's Record mode button and select "Fast Record."
9. Press the Record and Play buttons simultaneously to duplicate the newly created recording to the second CD.
10. Hit the burner's Final button to finalize the duplicated recording on the second CD.
11. Note: only after recording all the student soloists, does one hit the burner's Final button to actually finalize the master CD for use on other CD players and computer CD-ROM's.

• To post student soloists to a web page, use Easy CD-DA Extractor software by Poikosoft Software on the computer to convert the newly burned .CDA audio file a file format usable for web use. Instead of converting this audio file to a rather large .WAV file for web use, it is recommended that you convert it to a compressed MP3 file. The Easy CD-DA Extractor software can convert and compress the .CDA audio file from mono 22 kHz at 8 bits all the way up to stereo 44 kHz at 320 bits. The audio quality will vary significantly as will the size of the MP3 file. Suggest that the recording be about one minute in length for quick audio streaming times for 28.8/56K modem Internet connections. Once the audio tracks are converted to MP3, you are ready to post to the web page. A simple HTML code is needed on your web page, such as "hot" link code with the name of the file ending in .MP3
• Distinct advantages of this twin digital recording procedure are as follows:
  1. You don't have duplicate the student's new created CD because the PCMCIA hard disk card already has all of the recordings on it later for computer use and the burning of CD's on the external CD burner. Just give the student his CD and you are ready for the next student!

  2. Another advantage is that you can take the PC card out of the digital recorder and insert it into a notebook's PCMCIA slot or desktop computer with PCMCIA reader, such as a Filmate card reader, to get the digital files into the computer for editing and uploading to a web site. Then on the CD burner, you can rearrange or delete tracks, move the CD-RW disc to the player as well, put a blank into the recorder and quickly and easily duplciate CD's on the twin audio CD burner!