Recording iPod to MiniDisc
If you use your iPod to play your backing tracks at gigs, you’ll know how fantastic it is. Although the iPod is, without doubt, the most reliable playback format I have ever used in all my years of performing and it’s unlikely that you will have any problems with it failing mid-way through a gig, an iPod, just like any piece of electronic equipment, could let you down. So, it makes sense to have some sort of backup “just in case”.
Because most singers migrated from MiniDisc to iPod, they will usually have an old MiniDisc player lying around unused somewhere (ideally a little portable walkman sized MiniDisc player is best), so it’s a good idea to backup all your iPod backing tracks by recording them on to MiniDisc and keep them tucked away in your cable bag or glove compartment so you can call on them at a gig if you need them.
Some of you will probably be saying “Well, I already have all my songs on MiniDisc because I was using MiniDisc before I started using the iPod…”. This may be true, but how many new backing tracks have you added to your repertoire since moving to the iPod? I bet you haven’t got those songs backed up on MiniDisc! If you’re like me, you’ve probably got all the original backing tracks safely tucked away on your PC (probably in iTunes), and have transferred them to your iPod so are quite happy in the knowledge that you have a backup of your backing tracks? Not so!
The backing tracks on your PC are no use to you whatsoever when you’re half way through a gig and your iPod battery gives out, or it freezes, or someone spills a drink over it, or you drop it and it stops working! If you have no backup at the venue, onstage with you then the gig has to stop – and that’s not good! Wouldn’t it make more sense to be able to nip out to the car or delve in to your cable box and produce a little minidisc player which will get you through the rest of the gig? Yip, thought so! OK, here’s how to do it…
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