The Sony MDS-DRE1

Mon Jul 22 10:16:10 EDT 2002

Contact: vektor@dumbterm.net

I would like to sell or trade (for synth gear) my Sony MDS-DRE1 DJ minidisc recorder. It's one of the strangest things I've ever seen. Sony was trying to market to DJs by offering a turntable-style wheel for scrubbing, independent pitch and speed sliders (weird!), and these useful hot-start buttons. I've used it with the hot start buttons as a sample triggering device at a live show. It's alot of fun to play with anyway.

The one complaint is that you can sometimes get some weird flanging effects if you play with the pitch/speed sliders. It's a firmware bug Sony did not fix. Still, if you want to mix MP3s in with your DJ set, it's a pretty awesome toy.

I bought it from a Guitar Center in Chicago. They claimed it was a store model they found in the back. I got no manual with it, but was able to download it off the net. It's on this page too.

Oh, one more thing!!! The unit uses a standard computer power cord. I feel pretty stupid for not taking a shot to show that.

Price? $300USD maybe?

I'd love a trade for an alpha juno, kawai k3m, roland r-8, something cool that makes noise and not record noise.

It's pretty cool looking

Optical in, but no optical out

Lots of buttons, independent pitch and speed sliders, great jog wheel

Useful

Lots of features

You should really check out the manual in PDF format.