Registered: 02/23/00
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Loc: san diego,ca. usa
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Hi Roger: Can you suggest some good sounding dat recorders,with good converters. I have a project studio and want my mix to retain the best possible sound when going to dat.
10 years ago one brand of DAT machine sounded very different from another brand. Now, all of the manufacturers use converters that are very close to each other in quality. Most of the DAT machines today have better converters than most of the under $1000 stand alone converters that you can buy.
I have two Fostex D-10 machines that I have been using for 6 years. I also have a Panasonic 8700, a Sony R-400, and a Fostex D-30 timecode DAT machine. Most of the time I feed them with digital inputs from Pro Tools or other digital devices, or Apogee PSX-100 convertors.
Just make sure that you buy a machine that will record analog in at 44.1 kHz, and will ignore copy protection when you need to make a digital copy from another DAT machine. This means that it will probably called a professional machine as opposed to a consumer machine.
