synchronizing two 1680's

[mile5recordings]

im thinking about buying another 1680 and syncing them together. Any ideas about the process....is it basically just like adding 16 tracks and then i can record 16 simetaneously or am i totally off base. In other words what am i gettiing into.
any comments are helpful
jo-we

[Bleedstreet]

Do not know myself...this is something I am interested in doing also. I can see how you could record on both at once but would you then need a rack of dats to mixdown into? hmmmmmmmmmmmm C'mon all you VS guru's out there...spill da beans!

[Boray]

It works great to sync them. I have done it with my VS1680 + VS840EX.... You only need one midi cable for the sync (MTC+MMC) and one digital cable (optical or coax), so you feed the output of one of them into one of the digital inputs of the other, and have all 32 tracks played on the master out of that machine. There is a way of playing 18 tracks on a VS1680, so theoretically, you would get 36 tracks... You can read my posts on these two subjects (Syncing 1680+840 and using VS1680 as an 18-tracker) on the planet when it's back on line. Ask in the VS1680/1880 forum, and I will give you the links (if they haven't got the search back online...)

/Anders

[mile5recordings]

cool.
so i can sync any vs units to my 1680....and record more tracks at a time? and then play them all back at the same time.
jo-we

[Boray]

Yes. The VS840 is probably the one that is most difficult to sync to, because it can only be MMC master... So when I sync, I have to use the navigation buttons on the 840... So it's impossible to sync TWO 840s (because one must be slave - and can't be that), but that's probably the only combination that doesn't work... I don't know about the BR-8 either.... So buying a VS1680/1880/880/890/VSR880 would give you more tracks to playback and record simultaneously.... It's probably possible to sync more than two units together as well.... But there is a short delay of about one second from when you press play until the syncronisation has established itself and the slave begins to play. But this isn't that disturbing....

/Anders