Roger Nichols
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Registered: 12/13/99
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Loc: Miami, Florida
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It seems to me that there should be more to the descision than just picking between the two machines.
Random acces in a hard disk recorder is great, and sometimes building a playlist where you use one part of the song to replace another part of the song that was bad will eliminate the need to transfer to your pc for edits. The bad part about hard disk recording is the back-ups. Do you back up to CD-R, or DAT or removable Jazz drives ($100 per cartridge)???
With tape, when you are done with one project you just remove the tape, put in blank tape, and on with the next project.
When you run out of tape, you just put in more tape. If you fill up your hard disks, you have to stop, backup for hours, and then try to remember what you are doing.
I copy takes I want to work on over to hard disk, but after the original tracks are recorded to ADAT or Sony 48 track.
I have a second Protools rig that I sometimes have to use to backup full hard disks while I am filling up another set.
Flip a coin
Roger
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