DCC - Digital Compact Tape

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hi people,
I just bought myself a Marantz "Professional DDC recorder". just wanna reccomend it to anyone.It's absolutely great, everything on there, and it's all digital. I have a professional studio so i use DAT and all that, but i find, it's great for making quick mixes on, and it's so amazing for achiving mixes on. you can even plug a phone line into them and send sound signal out onto the phone line, or get signal in FROM the phone line. they're great, if you have the opportunity to buy one, GET IT, you will not regret it. The quality is amazing. They're about £900. Anyways, onto my main question!: where in the UK is the best shop to buy the DCC tapes from??
thanks in advance.
-Rox
 
I also have a DCC deck, I love it.

Over here in the U.S.A. DCC is a dead format.

You might try J.R. musicworld for tapes, they used to sell DCC decks. You may have to look around.

Is DCC a live format where you are?
 
Yea. Unfortunatly mini disc killed it. Too bad, I think it was slightly better (sonicly)than the mini disc.
 
yeah, DCC is a dead format here too, but only comercialy. I still here of professional studios using it for various tasks. Mainly sticking down rough mixes. I use it to transport my mixes to play to other people. The best thing about it, I can be working on a new song, and you can connet a phone line to this machine and play it down the phone to my singer! it's great!
DCC is used quite a lot over here for live recordings. let me know if any of you lot are using DCC for anything particular.
 
How do you hook it to a phone line? I've never heard of that. Is it an optical connection?
 
I used to use a Philips DCC recorder. It uses data compression too, I think ... but must be different from miniDisc, because it does sound better. I like how you can play analog cassettes through it too. It's too bad that the format didn't last. I thought it was a good bridge between old and new technology. Finding tapes was always hard though, even a few years ago.
Tell me about the 'phone line' too ... it seems strange to have that as a feature ... maybe this Marantz DCC was also marketed as a 'on hold' media box?! I dunno ... just sounds weird.
Anyway ... good luck finding tapes. The place I used to get them stopped carrying them a while ago. My search of the net only yielded one barely suitable result:
http://www.hecke.com/magopt.htm

It looks like their charging nothing for them ! Lucky you ... ;)
Good Luck!

[This message has been edited by BigKahuna (edited 06-27-2000).]
 
900 pounds! Wow. That's what, about $1500 dollars US?

Three years ago J&R Music was closing them out at like $99 dollars US. I almost bought one but didn't. No one else uses them.
 
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