fd4 as an A/D converter?? Please read

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I bought a fostex dmt8VL because on fostex's website it says
"Record 4 tracks simultaneously!" Well after I get it I find out that I can only record Two tracks simultaneously, Just like the fd4.

My question is.... can I run four guitars into the fd4 and run the digial out to the fd8 digital in and get four tracks on individual channels? Possible or stupid?
Joe
 
yup. but instead of 4 channels coming out of the fd4, you can only use 2 distinct channels and use the spif out in the fd8 spdif. Set the digital input on the FD8 to be spdif instead of ADAT. Then, to get 2 more distinct channels, just use 2 FD8 analog inputs.
Works like a charm.
 
Thanks Jr. But I am speaking of a dmt8vl and not fd8 I didn't mean to say fd8 my mistake. I imagine that will work as well huh?
Let me see if this is right. I can plug in 4 audio inputs to the fd4 and send them to the dmt8vl via spdif and they will be assigned to 2 or 4 individual tracks? and also plug two audio inputs into the dmt8vl for two more distinct tracks. So can I get 4 or 6 tracks simutaneously to their own individual tracks?
Joe
 
FD8 or dmt8... as long as you have a SPDIF i/o...

You can only input 2 channels into the DMT8 via the SPDIF. So the maximum simultanious distinct tracks you could could get would be 4. 2 SPDIF + 2 DMT8VL. Kind of a bummer. They really dropped the ball on that one. I can't remember if the DMT8VL has ADAT optical in or not. If it does, you could get 8 tracks at once if you had a digital mixer or an external ADAT Converter like the VC8.
 
I could be wrong on this,...

but I think the DMT-8 has the 4-buss mixer with 4-simul-recording, and the DMT-8VL is the 'lite' version of the DMT-8, obviously having less features than the regular DMT-8.

Could that explain the discrepancy?
 
Hey Bigbrodog,
Would you let us know if this works? I have an 8vl and have been thinking about trying this with the digital converters in my tascam DA-30 dat recorder.

Thanks,
Scott
 
SCODU, you bet. I have to get a spdif cable to connect them then I will let you know how it goes.
Joe
 
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