As hardcore fans of the Techmoan channel, it's a huge honour for us to have our music included in the making of this video. The Superscope PSD300 seems to outshine our Tascam CD-RW700 that we use in our own recording studio. A lovely example of a stand-alone compact disc recorder with professional specs.
My mind was more blown at the fact that he had two copies of the disc instead of editing the video to look like the disc had jumped to the other drive...
@@mjouwbuis Do a search on "Superscope Sony". You should hit a page that describes their collaboration. (It seems that Sony made it, Superscope marketed/distributed it.)
I do think you make a very good point about having a lot of knobs, switches and buttons. I do find in a lot of modern cars, not only is it often really difficult to work out where a particular option is to turn on your heated seats or whatever, but it takes ages to scroll through all the menus when you really should be looking at the road. It's much easier seeing a button with a picture of a seat with what looks like bacon on it and pushing it.
This is a problem I experienced with the photocopier at our university. The old one had tons of buttons for everything you could do. Looked cluttered, but worked perfectly. The new one only has a touch screen with dozens of submenus. Took us ages to figure out how to do simple things like duplex scans. And even if you know where stuff is, it still takes far longer than on the old one to input your desired settings. It's a really stupid design philosophy more and more companies are falling for.
It did perform well, but it's likely a simple electret condenser. Usually about a dollar a piece in quantity. The problem with a lot of TH-cam audio is the user, not the microphone. There are big name channels (I won't mention) that suffer from poor audio issues and these are entities that would definitely be using pro quality gear. Proper gain staging is the key and most independent content producers likely don't understand how to properly record audio. They don't understand why their audio quality is poor and the automatic assumption/idea is to buy a better microphone. But the real solution is to learn how to properly deal with gain staging, and also how to properly use a microphone, and deal with audio in post production. The room also plays a role, especially with any microphone that isn't a tightly focused cardioid. Another issue is the modern recording environment places so much emphasis on waveforms as a visual reference that people put too much trust is what they see, rather than what they hear. An example would be two waveforms side by side they may look very similar, but vary greatly in volume.
Let's just mention Linus Tech Tips that got thousands of dollars on mic, mixing, compressing audio equipment and every new WAN show still has audio issues.
6:40 It's amazing how the Voice Reduction function is able to differentiate between the main vocals and the chorus/backup vocals and just get rid of the main vocals. Perfect for creating karaoke discs. Simply wow!
Lots of DJ equipment in the late 90s and early 2000s had a vocal reduction function, such as the Denon 2500-F, which had that feature and was pretty useless, unless you were a full time karaoke dj. Other than that, gimmicky and not very good.
If you were wondering how the voice reduction system works, it relies on the lead singer generally being mastered in the middle, i.e. the same on both sides in the stereo recording. When you subtract one channel from the other, you end up with a mono sound signal with the lead singer removed. That's why some vocals which are mastered differently still come through. It may do some additional filtering, to reduce the frequencies of human speech, but then again it might not. It works without it. Since you lose some information with lossy compression, this technique works somewhat less reliably with MP3 files. A similar thing happens when the ground contact on a headphone port is broken.
TheJoebus666 lacking a sarc mark or similar it is assumed to be truthful, far too many people that would believe such a thing and let them buy duplicators rather than inflate the price of this.
Rb8n Rb8n That’s why you need to factor in context and use (and I don’t mean to sound insulting when I say this) a little common sense. Things like the tone of a comment are a lot easier to detect than people give credit for. You just have to know what to look for.
I used to have a 230 player. It was the play/pause feature that was why I bought it. I had a (brief) educational performance company where I'd do shows. I needed a CD player that would play a performance track then pause for the next track. I built a wireless trigger mechanism using the transmitter and receiver of a garage door opener, hooking the transmitter on my belt. It worked quite well. Thanks for the memories.
The hell? People don't use CD-Text? I've been burning every last mix cd with it. Meticulously filling out all the fields. It's a chore, but it's so satisfying to see it scroll along on the car stereo display!
I used to do that with all my Minidisc recordings, yes it used to take awhile especially with no alpha numeric keypad! The only CDs I've got with text are Savage Garden's & Darren Hayes albums from the late 90's.
Yeah a lot of commercial CDs don't have CD-Text which is annoying. You want to listen to a certain song, but you don't know what number it is. - Then some CDs Ive bought, the label ether doesn't have the track listing, or its in super fine print that its impossible to read.
When I was studying sound engineering and played back one CD I had burned to one of the teachers he said "How did you do that?!", lol. It's not a very well-known feature, as even pros have missed it out.
Thank you again dear Mat for this great video. I also bought the digital CD of Candy Apple Blue, great music and I told them that it's because of your video with their music that I learned to know them. So it gives them some joy to find out that their free sending of the CD was not in vain and it helped them appreciating your efforts as well ;-). Hope you will get other deals like that. Thank you again for your great video's! Best regards from Belgium.
I came across a CD once where the CD-Text had lyrics included that went along with the music. I really wish CD-Text was used and supported more in the past, and I would've loved to see lyrics while my CDs played!
There's no standard support for lyrics in a CD-audio, unfortunately. There are some karaoke CDs which use a modified standard for displaying lyrics, but they may have comparability issues with normal players, and are intended specifically for Karaoke machines. I have no idea why CD-text is so rare, I've always included it on every album I've worked on.
It never really caught on, but it was done on a few odd CDs. Here's one example (and it shows some of the data, as well): lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-November/246944.html I also found a book that mentions it at least slightly: books.google.com/books?id=Hs23Aax60XoC&pg=PA238&lpg=PA238&dq=CD+Text+lyrics&source=bl&ots=ifue4imKTq&sig=M2Wg9CwEAnZMfm6y3fGNSiwAA6s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYy-XDzZfZAhVP2mMKHYiFAJUQ6AEIVTAI#v=onepage&q=CD%20Text%20lyrics&f=false It seems like it's one of those things that was a bit pre-Internet and not very common, so may be hard to find a lot of information about online.
@@ct6502c I know this is a year old comment by now, but just wanted to say... Yeah I totally agree as well! My TV cannot even be turned on without the remote, it has no buttons whatsoever. It's so annoying. -_-
Our TV has a power button on the front. I find that I press the power button on the remote equally as much as the one on the TV. I also hate these "remote only" features.
More like a prop for the _Neuromancer_ movie that's going to be in production purgatory until the heat death of the universe. It totally looks like a cyberdeck.
This might be one of the most hypnotic TH-cam videos I've ever seen. Listening to this guy talk about random tech with his smooth voice is strangely nice.
I do wonder why anyone would give a video like this a 'thumbs down'? What are they thinking? Interesting and very well presented as usual (I'm learning a lot from your videos).
Oh man, I used to have one of these (under the Marantz brand) as a backup studio recorder in case our rack unit ever stopped working. Bringing back the memories!
I loved my SuperScope toploader, specifically because when you overloaded the input circuit just a little bit it produced the sweetest fuzzy distortion that was just right for recording electric guitars.
Great Scott! I don't burn a CD for years now and I've just spent my last 20 minutes watching a video review on an ancient CD recorder... That tells how great are your videos, you bet! Thank you and greeting from Portugal.
Good luck to those searching on eBay. The Techmoan effect will arrive soon now that this is out. Another fun video, though. I love learning about obscure tech items from this channel.
You got to figure out what he's playing with next and sell at the high point. I heard he's going to do an episode on those boomboxes with built in folding turntables..
Now there's a comedy skit that needs to happen: "Old Gear". First, reviews and performance specs of the latest flagship model of stairlift. Then: Clarkson showing off his fancy turbocharged mobility scooter (which breaks down of course!); James May overtaking him on a simple basic Zimmer frame; And then the hamster cutting them both up and doing celebratory donuts in an electric wheelchair, despite being covered head to foot in bandages from his latest accident. (He wasn't in a vehicle, just used a shower without any safety rail, and slipped!) =:o}
In school we used a DAT machine very similar to this with all the same functions. I prefer a machine with dedicated buttons that do just one thing. I hated using MIDI boxes that only had a power button and a shuffle knob. I knew what I wanted to do, but had to scroll through a million menus just to do it. A real pain. Thanks for your videos!
Flash photography Lee Hensman Yeah, made me briefly suspect another mechanical marvel like that early cassette tape autoreverse player. Some internal mechanics grabbing the disc from the tray and putting it into the top-loader section and back again.
@@12... yeah i thought he recorded the disc and it LightScribed the top of the CDR in color after it recorded! I was like WTH?! Still this is a drool worthy little machine... wish i had it in the 2000's, actually still would love to have one right now.
I burn CDs rather often to listen to in my car, and I always put CD-Text information on them. My car radio can read CD-Text as well, and it's quite a nice feature to have.
Was i the only one who thought whaat? he put a disc in one tray and got it out the other? 🤣 But yeahh anyway, another really great video, always waiting for them to come out, thank you techmoan!
This video came just in the perfect amount of time because a few days ago I was documenting myself about these portable units including the Marantz one and I was experimenting with burning a CD with CD-Text and was succesful in getting it to work inside the car CD player. Keep up the good work. Cheers :)
I remember this thing! My dad and I used it for years when we recorded backup discs for our local municipal band straight from the mixing board's aux sends. It was super-robust, stood up to the rough weather we sometimes get in northern Illinois.
EXCELLENT yet again , how do you do it every time ? Trouble is I always want the item you review, then I realise as a hoarder the items obsolescence would attract the wrath of the Mrs. She’s a northerner , northern wrath is never worth enduring for anything
Viewing this video caused me to go on ebay and purchase one of these. I got lucky, the unit I got is super clean and everything functions perfectly. Thanks Techmoan. Edit: For anyone who's interested, I found out that basically most CD's in jewel cases don't have text, but most CD's in a Digipak do have text. So, it seems they add text more often to the more modern CD's.
Techmoan is hands down my favourite TH-camr, not just now, but ever. If you see this Techmoan, could you possibly in the future do 1 or 2 more videos where you fix broken retro tech. I love all of your videos but those especially. Or even just create a playlist with all “Retro-tech fixing” videos. Keep up the amazing content!!
I used to have an early DVD player(massive thing) that had two mic inputs on the front and a sharp and flat button that'd effect the sound like that. You could plug in mics and talk or sing over whatever was playing on the player, I'm assuming it was for karaoke discs maybe?
sinformant I have a kids DVD player with two mic inputs as well. Now you've reminded me, these karaoke machines usually support the CD+G format, which was used almost exclusively to display song lyrics on an otherwise standard CD. Interesting bit of tech, in my opinion. It would be fascinating to find some other inventive uses that it might have had.
MarioMan crazy when I think of it that DVD player was like $200+ dollars and was still very basic, now days you can buy a bluray player with all kinds built in fancy stuff like apps and wifi for $50 and under. Hell I had a nice 3d bluray player I paid $60 for, that had all kinds of media streaming apps. But the new 4k bluray players are still too high priced for me to stomach.
My first dvd player (Apex ad600a) had karaoke mode, but did not support cd+g. There must have been a common chipset that had the provision for karaoke so probably just needed the right connections
When i was a child. I never really cared about CD. It was a format that was turned into mp3. Then it came back when i got my self a car with CD player in it. Then it died to me again once i got into IT as my main field of studies and car had to be sold. Now im relearning to love CD all over again. After seeing this Superscope that sounded so cool that i had to see it. Now CD became as cool again. Ill be checking those ebay listings and maybe get one here in Finland (once i get a pretty decent deal). All i can do is thank you for that.
One thing to point out is that you will almost always find people asking far too much money for any given thing on eBay. I collect old roleplaying games, and I'd be in debt if I was paying what some folks are asking for classic titles. You've got to take your time and check often to get the best deals.
I love the Marantz/Superscope equipment because of the simplicity but very useful design for more serious audiophiles who do a lot of live recordings of all sorts.
That is gorgeous! just total tech porn! matt black chunky finish, vu meters, backlit function keys, vfu display, loads of controls and inputs.........droooooolllllll
Was so impressed with this (and your channel), I bought one. Paid £195 for a mint condition unit with original manual, though no remote. I'm not a musical genius but I know many friends who will have fun with this and the Voice Reduction facility at house parties. Keep up the good work. Simon.
John Smith why do you keep posting "mushroom kiss, mushroom kiss" on every post you make in this comments section? Not having a go, just wondering what it means. Reminds me of mario
John Smith; Doubt that Techmoan could afford to gamble like that as it might backfire, but I wouldn't mind knowing in advance what nice pieces of tech equipment are to be featured!
I think the VR works by inverting one of the stereo channels and mixing down to mono. Which is why the output goes mono when you use it. Doing that cancels out parts of the two signals that are the same in both channels - i.e. the sounds coming out in the centre of the stereo picture.
That was an era when we really had technology at its best. We had quality & lots of new designs then. Now its like a competition with tons of cheap products made of cheap plastics. Techmoan videos are really refreshing & puts some sens in today's generation.
This is why I became a subscriber sir. I saw the player in your last video and I wondered what that wonderfully looking device was and went on a search. Thank you for putting out a video just to let us all know!
20 years ago I used to lust after a Yamaha MD8 Minidisc recorder to record my band's music. I've never heard of this particular machine before, but your video makes be glad that I didn't waste a ton of money back then on an inferior product.
After watching this video, I kept an eye for one of these units. I finally purchased a PSD 220U which is just the player for $99 on ebay in excellent condition. These Superscope units are pretty sweet.
This is a really cool device! Fantastically useful features which show that a great deal of thought went into the design and manufacture of this machine!
I have a pioneer PDR 609 and it has cd text. Very good cd recorder with digital and analog inputs. My only complaint is that it only records on those digital audio cd-r's.
so glad you highlighted this cd recorder, these things are fantastic they even have very good audio quality when played back through a high end amp. but its party trick is its abillity to make perfect 1:1 copies of any cds even game discs that dont have protection mega cd, tg 16 etc.
I know that, but you need some kind of modification like Modchip or Action Replay to run them. My queston was can it copy DRM of those disks or anti-pirate data, because this data is stamped onto the disks in factory. Also it's not accessible to modify with regular (consumer) products. Dunno
Going to college in the early 2000s, the Superscope/Marantz devices were indispensable as a music student. I used my PMD-201 to record my singing and playing, and the ability to switch to half speed made life easier when trying to transcribe music. I transcribed Miles' solo from "So What" using one. A CD version would have been nicer, but way outside my college-student budget. 20 years later, I still have mine. Digital recording tools and computer playback have pretty well made them obsolete, but for ease of use, they're hard to beat.
These look familiar to me. I worked as a live events Audio & Video technician from 2010 until Covid. I used the Marantz CRD420 model very often for recording the audio at conferences. Very stable units. They would still be in use today if it weren't for Covid decimating the industry.
As hardcore fans of the Techmoan channel, it's a huge honour for us to have our music included in the making of this video. The Superscope PSD300 seems to outshine our Tascam CD-RW700 that we use in our own recording studio. A lovely example of a stand-alone compact disc recorder with professional specs.
Candy Apple Blue nice
Love the music in this video :)
Candy Apple Grey is an awesome album from Husker Du.
Candy Apple Blue You should release the track with Techmoan vocals as a B-side
Candy Apple Blue
Kudos to you as well for letting Mat use your music, a very noble gesture in my opinion. :)
Anyone else have their mind blown at 0:43 thinking that the CD travelled through the machine?
My mind was more blown at the fact that he had two copies of the disc instead of editing the video to look like the disc had jumped to the other drive...
Omg Yes! I thought the machine had some sick mechanism in there to transport the CD's.... But no... He has 2 CD's...
Exactly lol, I was like "Wait, what the hell".
Kind of disappointed now because that would be a crazy mechanism.
Only to find it had copied the disc! No wait, he has two copies...
I thought: Instant copy! Including Label-Scanning&Printing!
If I had not seen the brand of this device I would swear that this was a Sony device. It has a very "Sony" look and feel to it!
Sony, Superscope and Marantz are all related. But - it's complex.
Google marantz cdr300 .
Was thinking the same.
@@russellhltn1396 Only Superscope and Marantz are related (to Marantz, half of D&M nowadays). Sony has nothing to do with it.
@@mjouwbuis Do a search on "Superscope Sony". You should hit a page that describes their collaboration. (It seems that Sony made it, Superscope marketed/distributed it.)
I do think you make a very good point about having a lot of knobs, switches and buttons. I do find in a lot of modern cars, not only is it often really difficult to work out where a particular option is to turn on your heated seats or whatever, but it takes ages to scroll through all the menus when you really should be looking at the road. It's much easier seeing a button with a picture of a seat with what looks like bacon on it and pushing it.
This is a problem I experienced with the photocopier at our university. The old one had tons of buttons for everything you could do. Looked cluttered, but worked perfectly. The new one only has a touch screen with dozens of submenus. Took us ages to figure out how to do simple things like duplex scans. And even if you know where stuff is, it still takes far longer than on the old one to input your desired settings. It's a really stupid design philosophy more and more companies are falling for.
ALWAYS look for the bacon button
Wow the internal mic on that is better than 90% of TH-camrs' 'studio' microphones.
It did perform well, but it's likely a simple electret condenser. Usually about a dollar a piece in quantity. The problem with a lot of TH-cam audio is the user, not the microphone. There are big name channels (I won't mention) that suffer from poor audio issues and these are entities that would definitely be using pro quality gear.
Proper gain staging is the key and most independent content producers likely don't understand how to properly record audio.
They don't understand why their audio quality is poor and the automatic assumption/idea is to buy a better microphone. But the real solution is to learn how to properly deal with gain staging, and also how to properly use a microphone, and deal with audio in post production. The room also plays a role, especially with any microphone that isn't a tightly focused cardioid.
Another issue is the modern recording environment places so much emphasis on waveforms as a visual reference that people put too much trust is what they see, rather than what they hear. An example would be two waveforms side by side they may look very similar, but vary greatly in volume.
Looking at you, Kripparian! With your $20 Logitech budget headset! What's up with that shit? 💋🍄💋🍄
Let's just mention Linus Tech Tips that got thousands of dollars on mic, mixing, compressing audio equipment and every new WAN show still has audio issues.
Isn't that the truth?!
@@konatadesuka linus don't have any clue about professional audio.
6:40 It's amazing how the Voice Reduction function is able to differentiate between the main vocals and the chorus/backup vocals and just get rid of the main vocals. Perfect for creating karaoke discs. Simply wow!
Lots of DJ equipment in the late 90s and early 2000s had a vocal reduction function, such as the Denon 2500-F, which had that feature and was pretty useless, unless you were a full time karaoke dj. Other than that, gimmicky and not very good.
If you were wondering how the voice reduction system works, it relies on the lead singer generally being mastered in the middle, i.e. the same on both sides in the stereo recording. When you subtract one channel from the other, you end up with a mono sound signal with the lead singer removed. That's why some vocals which are mastered differently still come through. It may do some additional filtering, to reduce the frequencies of human speech, but then again it might not. It works without it. Since you lose some information with lossy compression, this technique works somewhat less reliably with MP3 files. A similar thing happens when the ground contact on a headphone port is broken.
Very interesting. Thanks.
0:39 You put a CD on top and it makes an instant copy at the bottom, amazing!
Not exactly instant, either a bit over real time or a bit over half of play time.
Rb8n Rb8n - God, that joke went over your head
TheJoebus666 lacking a sarc mark or similar it is assumed to be truthful, far too many people that would believe such a thing and let them buy duplicators rather than inflate the price of this.
Rb8n Rb8n That’s why you need to factor in context and use (and I don’t mean to sound insulting when I say this) a little common sense. Things like the tone of a comment are a lot easier to detect than people give credit for. You just have to know what to look for.
@@sunchips18 yeah I have no issue detecting sarcasm or jokes about 99%of the time
I used to have a 230 player. It was the play/pause feature that was why I bought it. I had a (brief) educational performance company where I'd do shows. I needed a CD player that would play a performance track then pause for the next track. I built a wireless trigger mechanism using the transmitter and receiver of a garage door opener, hooking the transmitter on my belt. It worked quite well. Thanks for the memories.
The hell? People don't use CD-Text? I've been burning every last mix cd with it. Meticulously filling out all the fields. It's a chore, but it's so satisfying to see it scroll along on the car stereo display!
There are a few. Many of them ARE IN ALL CAPS THOUGH. Which is nearly as bad as not having text at all.
@devjock I hear you on that. Me too. I've lost countless hours over the years but it's always been worth it.
I used to do that with all my Minidisc recordings, yes it used to take awhile especially with no alpha numeric keypad! The only CDs I've got with text are Savage Garden's & Darren Hayes albums from the late 90's.
Yeah a lot of commercial CDs don't have CD-Text which is annoying.
You want to listen to a certain song, but you don't know what number it is. - Then some CDs Ive bought, the label ether doesn't have the track listing, or its in super fine print that its impossible to read.
When I was studying sound engineering and played back one CD I had burned to one of the teachers he said "How did you do that?!", lol. It's not a very well-known feature, as even pros have missed it out.
Thank you again dear Mat for this great video. I also bought the digital CD of Candy Apple Blue, great music and I told them that it's because of your video with their music that I learned to know them. So it gives them some joy to find out that their free sending of the CD was not in vain and it helped them appreciating your efforts as well ;-). Hope you will get other deals like that. Thank you again for your great video's! Best regards from Belgium.
I came across a CD once where the CD-Text had lyrics included that went along with the music. I really wish CD-Text was used and supported more in the past, and I would've loved to see lyrics while my CDs played!
Have you tried the liner notes?
Was just more interesting to get the lyrics and to get them displayed as they were sung.
Scrolling lyrics is still popular today on MP3 players in Japan...
There's no standard support for lyrics in a CD-audio, unfortunately. There are some karaoke CDs which use a modified standard for displaying lyrics, but they may have comparability issues with normal players, and are intended specifically for Karaoke machines.
I have no idea why CD-text is so rare, I've always included it on every album I've worked on.
It never really caught on, but it was done on a few odd CDs. Here's one example (and it shows some of the data, as well): lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-November/246944.html
I also found a book that mentions it at least slightly: books.google.com/books?id=Hs23Aax60XoC&pg=PA238&lpg=PA238&dq=CD+Text+lyrics&source=bl&ots=ifue4imKTq&sig=M2Wg9CwEAnZMfm6y3fGNSiwAA6s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYy-XDzZfZAhVP2mMKHYiFAJUQ6AEIVTAI#v=onepage&q=CD%20Text%20lyrics&f=false
It seems like it's one of those things that was a bit pre-Internet and not very common, so may be hard to find a lot of information about online.
Oh, I hate machines that have functions on the remote that aren't on the main unit! Every function on the remote should also be on the main unit!
Hungry Guy yup, I'm glad someone else finally pointed that out! It drives me crazy on tvs and dvd players. If you lose the remote, you're screwed!
@@ct6502c I know this is a year old comment by now, but just wanted to say... Yeah I totally agree as well! My TV cannot even be turned on without the remote, it has no buttons whatsoever. It's so annoying. -_-
@@PhazonBlaxor My parents TV can ONLY turn on without remote, yes I agree as well. (i say my parents tv cuz it's a LED tv)
Our TV has a power button on the front. I find that I press the power button on the remote equally as much as the one on the TV. I also hate these "remote only" features.
@@othello7 jjjjk9
"Singing" - LAlalalalaalalaaaaa!
Techmoan's new single!
Drunken Beard it's called "Dad about You"
meme quality.
Yes! This is what we want!
I want a copy of "Techmoan's shower canta recordings"
🎶🎵 I’m moaning in the rain, just moaning in the rain! 🎵🎶
This thing looks like a prop for a Blade Runner movie.
Enhance 22-40 Enhance again
Yeah it looks awesome.. I want one and I don't have any CD's anymore :p
More like a prop for the _Neuromancer_ movie that's going to be in production purgatory until the heat death of the universe. It totally looks like a cyberdeck.
Think we'll ever get a Snowcrash film?
This guy is the only one that can make me jealous of a CD player. I feel left out.
With players like that, it's hard not to feel jealous.
When you say “SuperScope” I immediately think of the bazooka light gun for the Super Nintendo.
This might be one of the most hypnotic TH-cam videos I've ever seen. Listening to this guy talk about random tech with his smooth voice is strangely nice.
This machine is pure genius!! If I never saw this video I could even imagine the existence of a portable machine like this in such a Compact Design.
I do wonder why anyone would give a video like this a 'thumbs down'? What are they thinking? Interesting and very well presented as usual (I'm learning a lot from your videos).
Oh man, I used to have one of these (under the Marantz brand) as a backup studio recorder in case our rack unit ever stopped working. Bringing back the memories!
I loved my SuperScope toploader, specifically because when you overloaded the input circuit just a little bit it produced the sweetest fuzzy distortion that was just right for recording electric guitars.
What a lovely device! :) And kudos to Candy Apple Blue for releasing a cd! I really miss those days when cd was king.
Great Scott! I don't burn a CD for years now and I've just spent my last 20 minutes watching a video review on an ancient CD recorder...
That tells how great are your videos, you bet!
Thank you and greeting from Portugal.
That is one regal CD Player.
Good luck to those searching on eBay. The Techmoan effect will arrive soon now that this is out. Another fun video, though. I love learning about obscure tech items from this channel.
You got to figure out what he's playing with next and sell at the high point. I heard he's going to do an episode on those boomboxes with built in folding turntables..
@@C2H5OHist Techmoan speculation is the next hot stock market gamble :'D
If you hit the record button again while it's recording, it'll increment the track number too without a remote..
Oh Superscope PSD300, where were you when I needed such a great machine? I never knew you existed.
Geez you surly don't see beautiful button laced devices like this anymore... Dam that minimalist shit
You're like the Top Gear for old gear.
PS: recently discovered your channel, and love your content!
Now there's a comedy skit that needs to happen: "Old Gear". First, reviews and performance specs of the latest flagship model of stairlift. Then: Clarkson showing off his fancy turbocharged mobility scooter (which breaks down of course!); James May overtaking him on a simple basic Zimmer frame; And then the hamster cutting them both up and doing celebratory donuts in an electric wheelchair, despite being covered head to foot in bandages from his latest accident. (He wasn't in a vehicle, just used a shower without any safety rail, and slipped!)
=:o}
Was I the only one who wanted Matt to sing "get lucky" as soon as he plugged the microphone in? 😂#karaokelegend
In school we used a DAT machine very similar to this with all the same functions. I prefer a machine with dedicated buttons that do just one thing. I hated using MIDI boxes that only had a power button and a shuffle knob. I knew what I wanted to do, but had to scroll through a million menus just to do it. A real pain. Thanks for your videos!
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who thought he put CD in at top and it came out of bottom draw.
Flash photography Lee Hensman Yeah, made me briefly suspect another mechanical marvel like that early cassette tape autoreverse player. Some internal mechanics grabbing the disc from the tray and putting it into the top-loader section and back again.
I thought that one too. You ain't alone lol
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No, it just instantly created an exact copy.
@@12... yeah i thought he recorded the disc and it LightScribed the top of the CDR in color after it recorded! I was like WTH?! Still this is a drool worthy little machine... wish i had it in the 2000's, actually still would love to have one right now.
0:40 - dammit, you had me there. I thought the CD had travelled from the top to the front like some kind of mechanical sleight of hand.
I could produce a machine that could do that, but I'm affraid it'd work much the same way as a paper shredder. It would however come out the bottom.
Turrican4D Hola!
Very interesting machine, with an equally great presentation. Good work, Mat!
Carly does have an amazing voice - wish we could have had more of it.
Dad About You
Wojciech Burman Dadly good machine!
Wojciech Burman Hey, my last name is Wojciechowski!!
My Two Dads
Towers Activate
Every video I watch on this channel I travel back in time, it's pretty nostalgic.
I burn CDs rather often to listen to in my car, and I always put CD-Text information on them. My car radio can read CD-Text as well, and it's quite a nice feature to have.
The pitch/tempo is veerrry impressive. What a machine. Wow!
Was i the only one who thought whaat? he put a disc in one tray and got it out the other? 🤣 But yeahh anyway, another really great video, always waiting for them to come out, thank you techmoan!
Elmantukas nope that got me too. I was like "what is this sorcery?"
for a sec. thought it was capable of copying the graphic onto the copy disc as well LOL
I think this is one of the most gorgeous looking pieces of technolgy that has been on the channel. Bob.
That’s my next 20 minutes sorted then. :)
This video came just in the perfect amount of time because a few days ago I was documenting myself about these portable units including the Marantz one and I was experimenting with burning a CD with CD-Text and was succesful in getting it to work inside the car CD player. Keep up the good work. Cheers :)
I'm a simple boy, Techmoan uploads a new video, I watch!
Words of wisdom.
Hmmm.....
Andrie Alinsangao I thought that would have been obvious 😀👍
I remember this thing! My dad and I used it for years when we recorded backup discs for our local municipal band straight from the mixing board's aux sends. It was super-robust, stood up to the rough weather we sometimes get in northern Illinois.
When I saw that mic on screen, I was hoping ( *BEGGING* ) for some more _Get Lucky_ !!!
That is excellent, and it's great that it uses standard data CDs rather than needing audio ones.
Digging your "bathtub remix" version of the song at 9:24 :D
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My high school had this CD recorder. I used it to record the orchestra, band, and chorus concerts. A very well build piece of equipment.
Majority of CDs pressed by Sony Music and Sony BMG between the late 90s to late 2000s has CD Text.
Your'e the only guy who can keep an audience engaged for 20 minutes on the use of a CD player. I want to buy one now but I have no use...
EXCELLENT yet again , how do you do it every time ?
Trouble is I always want the item you review, then I realise as a hoarder the items obsolescence would attract the wrath of the Mrs. She’s a northerner , northern wrath is never worth enduring for anything
Viewing this video caused me to go on ebay and purchase one of these. I got lucky, the unit I got is super clean and everything functions perfectly. Thanks Techmoan.
Edit: For anyone who's interested, I found out that basically most CD's in jewel cases don't have text, but most CD's in a Digipak do have text. So, it seems they add text more often to the more modern CD's.
I thought it was going to be some magical teleportation device, when you placed the CD in the top and it 'emerged' from the drawer at the front :)
Techmoan is hands down my favourite TH-camr, not just now, but ever. If you see this Techmoan, could you possibly in the future do 1 or 2 more videos where you fix broken retro tech. I love all of your videos but those especially. Or even just create a playlist with all “Retro-tech fixing” videos. Keep up the amazing content!!
I used to have an early DVD player(massive thing) that had two mic inputs on the front and a sharp and flat button that'd effect the sound like that. You could plug in mics and talk or sing over whatever was playing on the player, I'm assuming it was for karaoke discs maybe?
sinformant I have a kids DVD player with two mic inputs as well. Now you've reminded me, these karaoke machines usually support the CD+G format, which was used almost exclusively to display song lyrics on an otherwise standard CD. Interesting bit of tech, in my opinion. It would be fascinating to find some other inventive uses that it might have had.
MarioMan crazy when I think of it that DVD player was like $200+ dollars and was still very basic, now days you can buy a bluray player with all kinds built in fancy stuff like apps and wifi for $50 and under. Hell I had a nice 3d bluray player I paid $60 for, that had all kinds of media streaming apps. But the new 4k bluray players are still too high priced for me to stomach.
I had one like that too. Mine was a Daewoo one though.
My first dvd player (Apex ad600a) had karaoke mode, but did not support cd+g. There must have been a common chipset that had the provision for karaoke so probably just needed the right connections
Still have one like that. It also plays karaoke VCD which was very popular in Indonesia.
When i was a child. I never really cared about CD. It was a format that was turned into mp3. Then it came back when i got my self a car with CD player in it. Then it died to me again once i got into IT as my main field of studies and car had to be sold. Now im relearning to love CD all over again. After seeing this Superscope that sounded so cool that i had to see it. Now CD became as cool again. Ill be checking those ebay listings and maybe get one here in Finland (once i get a pretty decent deal). All i can do is thank you for that.
The techmoan effect has already hit. See them on eBay now for $250 or more. One is at $600 with remote.
There were some for $700 when I made the video. See 16:54 for a screenshot.
Still, you have an effect, on tech, not sure about the ladies. ;) Thanks
I'm seeing some for much less. You just have to know how to search. ;-)
One thing to point out is that you will almost always find people asking far too much money for any given thing on eBay. I collect old roleplaying games, and I'd be in debt if I was paying what some folks are asking for classic titles. You've got to take your time and check often to get the best deals.
I didn’t realize that key effects the pitch i amazing has everything you can do with that 👍
We love Techmoan in America
but he is a lot better of living in the Uk.
I love the Marantz/Superscope equipment because of the simplicity but very useful design for more serious audiophiles who do a lot of live recordings of all sorts.
That is gorgeous! just total tech porn! matt black chunky finish, vu meters, backlit function keys, vfu display, loads of controls and inputs.........droooooolllllll
Then Mat goes and hooks it up to a Sony Flamingo! I'm drowning in drool! must have it.......
Awesome for backyard bootleggers for back in the days. The sound feature is to test if the recording has actually worked or not. Perfect set up.
9:25 La la la la la~!
It reminded me of the "stomach voice" episode from Seinfeld. "Helloooo! La la laaa"
Was so impressed with this (and your channel), I bought one. Paid £195 for a mint condition unit with original manual, though no remote. I'm not a musical genius but I know many friends who will have fun with this and the Voice Reduction facility at house parties. Keep up the good work. Simon.
P.S. Currently driving this through a DENON AVR 1803, and recording vinyl from a DUAL CS 503-1
Oh no, I can see the Techmoan-effect increasing the prices on eBay! B^(
Techmoan should buy all available units before publishing a video. He could gain hundreds of pounds! Thousands even! 🍄💋🍄💋
John Smith, fun fact: Bought a Roland MIDI player a day before his video release, costed below 50€, a day later >200€
John Smith why do you keep posting "mushroom kiss, mushroom kiss" on every post you make in this comments section? Not having a go, just wondering what it means. Reminds me of mario
John Smith; Doubt that Techmoan could afford to gamble like that as it might backfire, but I wouldn't mind knowing in advance what nice pieces of tech equipment are to be featured!
I think the VR works by inverting one of the stereo channels and mixing down to mono. Which is why the output goes mono when you use it. Doing that cancels out parts of the two signals that are the same in both channels - i.e. the sounds coming out in the centre of the stereo picture.
This is pretty neat
That was an era when we really had technology at its best. We had quality & lots of new designs then. Now its like a competition with tons of cheap products made of cheap plastics.
Techmoan videos are really refreshing & puts some sens in today's generation.
You going "Lalalalalaaa!" while recording made me laugh so hard I cried x3
Nice channeling of the Trololol guy.
Linksbro
Eduard Khil was a legend.
It was a good Mr Bean in the bath impression
If you're gonna insult someone's intellect, at least spell the entire sentence correctly. lmao
This is why I became a subscriber sir. I saw the player in your last video and I wondered what that wonderfully looking device was and went on a search. Thank you for putting out a video just to let us all know!
9:20 So Techmoan is the Trolololololololololololo guy. Mind blown!
best moment in the video + vote up
Someone make remix please
xD
The fact that it has XLR inputs is just beautiful
Your videos are what I go to watch first. Keep up the great work!
My piano teacher actually owns one of those CD players. I always thought it was kinda cool and I actually recognised it from the previous video.
I left a comment on the last video telling people what model it was. smh.
And as usual RIP reasonably eBay pricing for these machines.
I bet there are similar pro cd recorders which no one knows about that are still cheap.
20 years ago I used to lust after a Yamaha MD8 Minidisc recorder to record my band's music. I've never heard of this particular machine before, but your video makes be glad that I didn't waste a ton of money back then on an inferior product.
Every time you make a Video on Hardware the prices on the used market always goes up lol!!!
After watching this video, I kept an eye for one of these units. I finally purchased a PSD 220U which is just the player for $99 on ebay in excellent condition. These Superscope units are pretty sweet.
WOW! I want one of those!
This is a very versatile device. Back in the early 2000s I would have loved this !
So who else looks for a thumbnail of puppets at the end of the videos? :)
Wow! This is one beautiful, and versatile, machine! Thank you for the great walk through.
I was watching this video sped up in TH-cam which also doesn't change the pitch, so it didn't change the pitch of the pitch not being changed... :)
This is a really cool device! Fantastically useful features which show that a great deal of thought went into the design and manufacture of this machine!
I have a pioneer PDR 609 and it has cd text. Very good cd recorder with digital and analog inputs. My only complaint is that it only records on those digital audio cd-r's.
so glad you highlighted this cd recorder, these things are fantastic they even have very good audio quality when played back through a high end amp.
but its party trick is its abillity to make perfect 1:1 copies of any cds even game discs that dont have protection mega cd, tg 16 etc.
I'm curious if this mashine is able to clone CD games with anty-piracy protection (Sega CD/PlayStation and so one)
I would think probably not, but I could be wrong.
I doubt it. CD audio and CD data are separate things.
Kacper Jacuński pretty sure you can copy psone and Sega cd games in a normal cd drive in your computer
I know that, but you need some kind of modification like Modchip or Action Replay to run them. My queston was can it copy DRM of those disks or anti-pirate data, because this data is stamped onto the disks in factory. Also it's not accessible to modify with regular (consumer) products. Dunno
Kacper Jacuński I think you answered your own question then. That data is stamped in at the factory so a laser can't write it to a new disk
i think this this device represent everything I love about 90s tech design!
I have “Powers Activate!” By Candy Apple Blue, it’s a pretty good album too. ;)
I agree it's so satisfying using all those buttons, switches and dials!
Much nicer than hiding everything away in menus :)
Show me all those neat tricks!
Love seeing such examples of vintage high quality engineering
Nice video!
Going to college in the early 2000s, the Superscope/Marantz devices were indispensable as a music student. I used my PMD-201 to record my singing and playing, and the ability to switch to half speed made life easier when trying to transcribe music. I transcribed Miles' solo from "So What" using one. A CD version would have been nicer, but way outside my college-student budget. 20 years later, I still have mine. Digital recording tools and computer playback have pretty well made them obsolete, but for ease of use, they're hard to beat.
What is a CD ?
Is it like a 3D printed MP3 file?
Embeh i couldnt have put that a better way
Common in the mid 80s to early 00s. You might see one or two nowadays as coffee coasters.
These look familiar to me. I worked as a live events Audio & Video technician from 2010 until Covid. I used the Marantz CRD420 model very often for recording the audio at conferences. Very stable units. They would still be in use today if it weren't for Covid decimating the industry.
"singing" ;D im dying
This is the best CD player/recorder I've ever seen.