Are DATs being phased out by the CD?

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Massive Master said:
Well, they certainly did come in handy when a blank CD-R was $35 or more...
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I remember a couple of bucks when they first came out, but $35+ :eek:
My Sam's Club membership must have kept me from going into debt!! ;)


Lemme ask you guys this...
if coming out of the computer, thru an analog board, for the purpose of using outboard gear as an example, what would be the best route for that in your opinions... Another computer with a CDrw for mixdown?


btw, I am also phasing out the DAT too, but certainly got a zillion miles out of mine and it CERTAINLY filled a niche at the time...for me, at least. The SPDIF back into the computer was nice.
 
I go back into the same computer. Say I'm mixing from Cakewalk, I just create a new stereo track, assign it an input, patch the mains from the console to that input and go. I multitracked at 24/44.1 and I mix at the same resolution.
 
mixmkr said:
I remember a couple of bucks when they first came out, but $35+ :eek:
My Sam's Club membership must have kept me from going into debt!! ;)
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John is talking all the way back in 1991. They didn't come down to $2 until almost 2000.
 
They might've been cheap longer than that... I just remember jumping through hoops to get a dozen of them from some far-off computer supply... Forget about Sam's or even the local office supply store...

Of course, this is back when a 2X drive was a couple thousand dollars also...

And a decent PC that said INTEL on it was 5 or 6 thousand... With some whomping HUGE 1.6GB hard drive and 32MB of RAM - I rememeber when I picked up a machine like that. The guys over at (this graphic design place that I can't remember the name) were jealous and they were using Silicon Graphics machines at the time.

I think right about when Windows95 came out, blanks dropped to probably $15 or so and you could special order them from Guitar Center...

Jay will remember from the JEM days when we're about to order some pizza and then we'd burn a "coaster" and have to eat the ramen noodle soup to make up the cost of the disc. :eek:

Ah, the good 'ol days...
 
I got my first Plextor in the beginning of 98, and the blanks were about $2 then...maybe actually cheaper. I remember about 2 years previous were the whopping $2k burners....too much for my blood, knowing they WOULD come down in price.
I know that for fact as I have my first "coaster" framed(and dated) in my studio and hangin' on the wall.
Sams was EASILY 1/2 the price or less for Verbatims at the time.. the $30 membership paid for itself the first time you bought a spindle....and for the most part, the only place in my neck of the woods that had any that you could hop in a car and go get. Back in the early 90's I was still an analog believer as imo at the time, computer recording was a REAL pain in the rear.
 
Ther first CD I ever had burned cost me $45. That was around 1991.
 
Most of the price was the cost of the CDR! I remember they were $25 a pop back then.
 
Here, guys - Let me bring back some memories with a really expensive term you hardly ever hear anymore...

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Massive Master said:
Here, guys - Let me bring back some memories with a really expensive term you hardly ever hear anymore...

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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
MAKE THE BAD MAN STOOOOPPP!
 
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