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PannyDeters
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I have zero experiance with syncing. Is it possible to put a sync track on 2 portastudios and use them together?
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PannyDeters
New member
Awww come on guys. I'm serious. SOmeone has to know if this is even possible.
If I put a track of SMPTE on track four of two different four tracks, what else would I need to sync them for a total of 6 tracks?
Help!!
If I put a track of SMPTE on track four of two different four tracks, what else would I need to sync them for a total of 6 tracks?
Help!!
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jimimac
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not sure if you can sync two 4 tracks this way. i used to sync tracks on two reel to reels using my thumb as a damper aginst the reel of one deck slowing it down to sync with the other deck while i was recording both out puts to a cassette deck.
what im trying to say is try it!! what do ya got to lose.
jimimac
what im trying to say is try it!! what do ya got to lose.
jimimac
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James HE
a spoonfull weighs a ton
I don't know how to sync the tracks, but you could try just bouncing four tracks from one to one or two (or three)tracks and then record on the empty tracks. Like doing an external bounce.
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Dex
New member
The simple answer is no.
You can record a sync track on any multitracker quite easily. Just record the SMPTE or FSK (midi sync) tones on a track from the output of a time-converter 'black box.'
Actually syncing them is much more difficult. The decks themselves must support something called chase-lock, where the [servo] motors running the actual tape reels will instantaneously adjust their speed to keep up with the 'master' unit. As far as I know, no portastudios do chaselock. It would make them much too expensive.
Of course, they can be used as the chaselock master. But you still have to have something else that chases TO it.
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You can record a sync track on any multitracker quite easily. Just record the SMPTE or FSK (midi sync) tones on a track from the output of a time-converter 'black box.'
Actually syncing them is much more difficult. The decks themselves must support something called chase-lock, where the [servo] motors running the actual tape reels will instantaneously adjust their speed to keep up with the 'master' unit. As far as I know, no portastudios do chaselock. It would make them much too expensive.
Of course, they can be used as the chaselock master. But you still have to have something else that chases TO it.
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Thekesslerboy
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I have two Boss BR-800s. I'm thinking of connecting the output of one to the input of the other. That way, I'll have the 6 tracks from each available simultaneously when mixing down and mastering. Hmmm. No pre-master bouncing, no guessing of levels needed etc etc.
Papanate
Well-known member
As @Dex noted - anything with out chase locking cannot sync . simple striping a tape with SMPTE won’t do anything except take up a track - the same would be for @Thekesslerboy using two Boss BR800s - except he’s not syncing at all - just doing a manual combining - which is fine when you are recording one time - but when he tries
to playback his tracks - he’ll have to press play on both units at the same exact time - which I’m pretty sure is impossible.
