A bit of DAT experience--

[Muckelroy]

I just did a live recording using DAT's. My first time to mess with DAT's, really, only because I was allowed to borrow a portable dat recorder and I didn't feel like lugging around a CD recorder.

It was SO EASY to hit that damn 0dB brick wall. Digital distortion showed up in the recording more than a few times, and it really pissed me off.

Makes me appreciate analog THAT MUCH MORE!!!

What I'd give for a nice quarter-inch 2 track with dolby SR for these types of things!!!

-callie-

 

[The Ghost of FM]

agreed.

Brick walls are cool in buildings but they suck inside sound recorders.

Cheers!

 

[up-fiddler]

...a*d br!<k w&lls sou%d rea3ly b@d.

 

[Muckelroy]

ahhh, but digital fights back!

But it was ever so easy to zoom in on the clipping in Sound Forge, and re-draw the waveform to get rid of it.

Digital may suck, but man is it flexible! (Well, most of the time.)

-callie-

 

[Farview]

You were just recording too hot. Line level should be -15db. If it was a 24 bit DAT, you could get away with much less signal.

 

[cjacek]

Brick walls are cool in buildings but they suck inside sound recorders.

Cheers!

Ha! One of the best quotes I've read recently!