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Johnny B, that is some interesting stuff. Thanks! It is more elaborate that what I had heard before... and makes a lot of sense.
Odd about the LP->CD transfers showing up though - you'd think that it would be looking for a closer match. But cool nonetheless.

The later model power supplies that Mark and Andy are describing won't work with the original MidiVerb. A friend tried exactly that and it was a no-go. Unfortunately, Alesis no longer supplies the OEM units. Also unfortunately, I have no other solution to offer. Yeah, mine's a MidiVerb II. Oops. Aa...

I agree, and coach any clients who need to transfer in or out of my place in said technique. "Consolidating"/"Rendering" from a common start time (usually 0:00:00.000) is actually recommended by the AES for archival of digital multitrack masters, to remove any DAW-specific elements, and to insure sy...

an audio SMPTE track would work.... i couldn't find a .wav anywhere.... but if you have anything that can generate SMPTE, you could just record it into PT and then play it out whatever channel you like. Briliiant! I'm a little embarassed I didn't think of that. I mean, why the heck not? Aside from ...

Alesis use a lot of 9V/10V AC power supplies. That 10VAC rating is no surprise... the Midiverb II (all revisions, I think) uses 9VAC supplies - I bet you could use something like that. (Don't blame me if you blow something up, please!) Nice thing about AC supplies - at least you can't screw up the p...

The other is when CDs are played on computer CD drives when connected to the internet. This is generally CDDB data, and is entered when an unknown CD is put in a player - the software will usually ask the user to enter the artist, album, and song titles. When a couple of such entries are made, the ...

Yeah, you need to get MIDI out of your computer (to get the MTC out) then convert it to SMPTE. I think a JLCooper dataSync2 can take MTC in and convert it to SMPTE. If you have a MIDI interface like a MOTU Midi Time Piece, it can output SMPTE directly.

There are two different things possible here. One is to add text in the CD+Text format. I think (but do not know for sure) that Jam can add text, that will show up only on CD+Text capable players. The other is when CDs are played on computer CD drives when connected to the internet. This is generall...

The AI-2 does something like 150 cents up and 200 cents down. Most devices go 'out of range' within those limits, that I've varispeeded. I get something like 100 cents up, 150 down staying stable. If I recall correctly.

Xavier: yes, yes, and yes!

It's been a loooong time since I used a Zeta-Three, but I am pretty sure you want PT HD to generate MTC (and convert it to SMPTE, as I don't think the Z-3 reads MTC). Then have the analog deck chase the Z-3.

Alesis AI-2. Works like a charm (and seems to be quite stable.)

The Jecklin Disc will facilitate one of the cues that we use to localize sound ...well, two, I suppose... The first is the time arrival difference between ears. Only sounds on the front-to-back plane will arrive at both ears at the same time. The second is the slight diminishing of the upper frequen...

Well, it uses two channels to impart some directional cues. Where in a stereo (speaker) setup, sound from both channels reaches both ears, with a binaural recording, one listens on headphones, one channel per ear discretely. When binaural recordings are made (with the aforementioned dummy head techn...

It's a good idea (could work with 60 cycle hum, most likely, if one got it lined up just right) but noise by its very nature is random.