Dbs?

[pretzston]

Is it called DBS? I forget at the moment...

on the back of my 424mkII there is the three way switch.

off / on / sync

Which is best?

I am recording acoustic music with vocals, and in the past I once recorded with it off... and then I realized with it on the hiss is MUCH less.

I am using a Behringer B1 --> audio buddy --> tascam 424

sync or on? what is better?

[The Ghost of FM]

It's called "dbx".

It's best to leave it on at all times and for all occasions unless you are syncing up your Portastudio to outside devices like a computer for midi track synchronization along with your analog tracks on the recorder and in that case you would put the switch to the "sync" position so that the dbx would still work on tracks 1 - 2 & 3 and turn the dbx off on track 4 which would be used to record a "sync" tone on that track which would contain time and frame information that an external source would require to lock up with.

As an example;

You have a midi keyboard that can internally record 16 tracks of keyboard parts and you want to "sync" that to your Portastudio so that you can have taped tracks, like vocals and guitars playing in synchronization with the parts you created on your keyboard or computer that is running a midi/music recording program like Cool Edit or Sonar or N-trac or Q-base...

Get the picture?

Cheers!

[pretzston]

cool. than on is good for me
question... why would they give you the option of turning it off?!!?

[The Ghost of FM]

why would they give you the option of turning it off?!!?

So that you would appreciate the feature all the more when you turned it back on again!

That, and there are some die-hards out there who prefer the un-processed sound and feel it is more natural to record without it and live with the hiss for the benefit of not having any dbx artifacts being injected into the sound like "pumping or breathing". Though these characteristics tend to show up most on heavily percussive instruments and also when the calibrated levels of your recorder are out of whack and bring out the bad side of dbx.

Most people have good experiences using dbx. Myself included.

Cheers!

[muttley]

dbx rocks over Dolby !!



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