DAT hours

[mixmkr]

so...is it possible to find the hours on the head on my Tascam DA-20 Dat recorder? ...like you can on an ADAT.
I haven't figured it out, nor found any answers in the manual I seemed to have misplaced!! ;-D

 

[sonusman]

Sorry...

I have never heard of a DAT player that will display the "on-head" hours like an ADAT will. There may be one out there, but I have never even heard of this option for them.

Ed

 

[BigKahuna]

I don't know about the DA-20 ... but I think DA-88 displays head hours by holding Stop & Play while powering up. It's probably not the same for a DAT machine ... even from the same manufacturer.

Also, in this day and age ... there's no such thing as a lost manual
http://www.tascam.com/pdf/DA-20mkII_manual.pdf