equipment that can bite me

[solarbird]

I have this Sony minidisc recorder I bought back in... 2002? When those mattered, anyway. I've tried a couple of times to use it to do quick recordings of live shows and it's failed me each time - it's fine for a minute and a half or so, then I get garbage, then it's fine again, then garbage. I thought it was bad media, but now I'm re-testing the same media in the studio and it records fine.

When I set it up outdoors it's always in a shaded, reasonably-level position, and everything has lots of power. All the parts work fine tested in the studio, but at shows so far I have a 100% failure rate with the same symptoms across different discs each time.

Suggestions, anybody?

Also, suggestions on a pure-digital recorder? This has officially become stupid.

Comments

[solarbird]

...a minidisc recorder? Thanks! What kind?

[sksouth.livejournal.com]

I'll have to dig it up... I think I know which stack it's in.

[solarbird]

Thanks! I've just managed to reproduce the problem in the studio, but it's still pretty random. (And undetectable while happening! Only detectable after. BEST KIND)