DCC

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guhlenn

Oh REALLY????
ok maybe a stupid question, but hey..... everything i've asked till now was stupid. is it possible to use a DCC recorder instead of an adat? DCC is eight track for sure, but i dont know if thats the same thing...
it's great though, and as i have got one it would be great if it worked...
 
DCC -- isn't that Digital Compact Cassette - the failed (in North American) "digital cassette" format that Philips came out with? It used a lossy compression scheme similar to the one used for MiniDisc. Anyways - it's a 2-track format, not a multitrack format and not in any way comparable to an ADAT. Given its limited acceptance, it is probably not a format investing much into - but if you already have it, make use of it!

Bruce Valeriani
Blue Bear Sound
 
hmmmm...
i'm pretty sure it's an eight track, but your right about the rest anyway. it's kind of a minidisk but then more of a cassette. i'll ask my dad he'll know. (he bought it when this was the new promising medium which was gonna smash the CD (LOL)
greetz
 
No... it is definitely NOT an 8-track format - it COULD potentially be a 4-track, but I've never heard of any units being built. Trust me, it is 2-track.

Bruce
 
okay i asked my dad and well frankly we're both wrong!
The tape has 9(!) tracks but 8 are used as a 4x2 track to increase playtime and one track is used tto get rid of noise(or so says the manual) actually you came a lot closer than i did now i think about it.
tanx anyway
greetz guhlenn
ps what's your opinion on the fostex VF-16?
 
uhh ok...

no offense to your pops ... but I'm pretty sure DCC is only 2 tracks.
I have one and Bruce nailed it ... "the failed" format for lossy compression" ... mini disc won. Which surprises me because I really like how this deck plays regular cassettes ... hmm ... I wonder if those are considered failures too?
Actually I think when it comes to lossy compression, mp3 won hands down. :)
do you know where to get DCC tapes?? :)
Just wondering ... my recorder has so much dust on it I can't really recognize it anymore. It would be nice to actually use it for something. Anything.
 
I live in the Netherlands and here i really wouldn't know but in Germany there are still DCC sold (well, sold ... you can buy em though.) And it is a 3 track it only writes two tracks and as stated above there's a third track which clears the noise...
i read it in the manual so...
i don't get how that should work though.
Ah well you can play cassettes on it so just pop on in and off you go!!!

greetz guhlenn
 
Just to clarify....

When we call something a "2-track", the implication is that you can only record 2 channels of a signal source, and the tracks CANNOT be recorded separately (ie, record on one channel without affecing the other). Usually it is used in the context of "mix-down" machines, but it applies to any unit used to record a 2-channel signal.

Whether the media uses 3,4, or 500 tracks to accomplish "recording a 2-channel signal" is irrelevant - it is still called a 2-track!

;)

Bruce
 
you're absolutly right... i think.
because i wouldn't know, oh yeah i'm a newbie...
ah well,
time to close up the chapter DCC.
thanks for all comments.
guhlenn
 
Hey Big K,

How ya doing, I'm still enjoying the songs we did. Hope your still pounden them skins!!

I use a dcc deck to record on, and it is two track, seems to sound pretty good to me, can't say for sure that I can hear compresion, allthough I don't have anything to compare it to. I went from a Teac 3440, to dcc when the Teac gave up the ghost. The dcc seemed to me to be a big improvement, over open reel. No more flutter on my acoustic, No more hiss, and more headroom. Hard to compain.

Anyway, as far as getting tapes, J&R Music World seemed to be the last holdout on dcc decks, and tapes. You might try there.

I'm waiting for my dcc deck to die, so I have an excuse to buy an eight track, but I've had it for about eight years, and it still works flawlessly. I've got a lot of tapes, if you can't find any, I'll send you some.

GT
 
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