Recent content by Igor Alexander

You can say that again. I miss cassette portastudios. Sure, the sound quality left something to be desired, but at least they were straightforward and reliable. Now that recording gear is tied to the computer industry, it seems it's become acceptable for companies like Tascam to push buggy...

The headphone amp on my DP-004 is hissy as well.

Yeah, well, that's the sort of thing I'd expect from a device that only costs $700. If you want something that behaves like an analog mixer and lets you mix live, King Tubby-style, your best bet is to use, well... an analog mixer. I was contemplating getting a DP-24 just to do my tracking on...

Turn your monitors off.

Use headphones.

No surprise there. Keeping both in their catalog would be confusing to prospective buyers.

That's one of the things I find attractive about the DP-24. It's one of the first portastudios I've seen that looks like it has adequate metering (made possible by the color screen). Poor metering has been the bane of digital portastudios.

It certainly looks as though self-contained hardware multitrack recorders are on the way out. As far as I can tell, the only companies still making digital portastudios are Tascam, Zoom, Roland/Boss, and possibly Fostex. Yamaha, Korg, Akai and probably a bunch of other companies I'm forgetting...

An even bigger advantage of recording directly to an SD card, I would think, is that it eliminates hard drive noise and the need to have a noisy fan built in the unit. This won't matter if you're recording your brother's death metal band in their rehearsal space next to an airport, but if you're...

I could've sworn I saw a screenshot of the DP-24 with a timeline view that displayed all the audio in a session. Am I just imagining it?

If those are the things you want, why not just record to a computer?

If files first have to be sent to an "AudioDepot" folder in order to be in sync when imported into a DAW, then that suggests they are being converted (i.e., silence is being inserted in the unrecorded portions preceding the files). I don't see how else it could be done. If the files are already...

Did getting a replacement (was it the SD card or the recorder itself that was replaced?) solve the problem? I've been reading reports here and there that these recorders are prone to lock-ups.

You must mean JRF Magnetic Sciences out in New Jersey, right? http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/ The only thing MRL sells is calibration tapes: www.mrltapes.com

To satisfy my curiousity, I'm going to find out how much it would cost to replace the heads on one of these, but I'm already starting to feel that it's not worth the hassle. A hundred bucks for a reel just to test the things; probably another $150 for a moving service if I buy them; god knows...