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Why would it be out of use in digital ages? It IS digital. DAT = Digital Audio Tape. I think it can still be usefull to make some high quality recordings. I'm no specialist in that stuff though.
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Why would it be out of use in digital ages? It IS digital. DAT = Digital Audio Tape. |
i know, but what i meant is u can record straight into ur pc if u have decent soundcard, so why would u bother recording it with dat first?
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Oh yeah the good old DAT machine with those sweet little tapes. I still have one lying around from the good old days before CD-R became a reliable recording medium. I used to love it, compared to analog cassettes the quality (ie CD quality 
) was unbelievable, but it was so cranky to work with (didn't start recording immediately, weird track indexing etc).
Yes it is actually obsolete technology now, but if you don't have a good sound card it is possible the converters in the DAT are of better quality than those of the sound card, so you could use the DAT as an A/D converter and then transfer digitally to the computer.
If you got a good sound card it can eg be used to record live DJ sets, it's sturdier than a laptop, but you'll need to switch tapes 
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Originally posted by thechronic
Oh yeah the good old DAT machine with those sweet little tapes. I still have one lying around from the good old days before CD-R became a reliable recording medium. I used to love it, compared to analog cassettes the quality (ie CD quality
) was unbelievable, but it was so cranky to work with (didn't start recording immediately, weird track indexing etc).
Yes it is actually obsolete technology now, but if you don't have a good sound card it is possible the converters in the DAT are of better quality than those of the sound card, so you could use the DAT as an A/D converter and then transfer digitally to the computer.
If you got a good sound card it can eg be used to record live DJ sets, it's sturdier than a laptop, but you'll need to switch tapes
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he says true. a big tip for Digi 002, if you can get a light pipe to the Digi, you can get 8 ore tracks to recordin, through the 8 track DAt's ADAT i think they are called. I see studio's doing that.
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thechronic
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Oh yeah the good old DAT machine with those sweet little tapes. I still have one lying around from the good old days before CD-R became a reliable recording medium. I used to love it, compared to analog cassettes the quality (ie CD quality
) was unbelievable, but it was so cranky to work with (didn't start recording immediately, weird track indexing etc).
Yes it is actually obsolete technology now, but if you don't have a good sound card it is possible the converters in the DAT are of better quality than those of the sound card, so you could use the DAT as an A/D converter and then transfer digitally to the computer.
If you got a good sound card it can eg be used to record live DJ sets, it's sturdier than a laptop, but you'll need to switch tapes
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he says true. a big tip for Digi 002, if you can get a light pipe to the Digi, you can get 8 ore tracks to recordin, through the 8 track DAt's ADAT i think they are called. I see studio's doing that. |
ADAT and DAT are completely different formats. DATs are really small cassettes, while ADATs are big ass VHS tapes!
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Surya
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I acually have a DAT recorder standing next to me now. Recorded some stuff from it yesterday. Like the original, unedited basskick used in 'Pump up the Jam' 
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