Fostex FD-8 Digital Multitrack

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wish I knew

You said it has a hard drive built in. Did you install it or is it factory? The reason I ask is I want to in stall a hard drive in my FD-8 for easy access when carrying it around and leave my external drives at home. I do not know how or which ones to use. The instruction manual says the internal hard drive is a 2.5 but no memory value is listed. Can you inlighten me? Oh remember "If you know only one way to spell a word, you do not show much Imagination". (Albert Einstien)
 
Internal Hard Drive

You know this was so long ago I don't really remember too well... I did not put the hard drive in myself (bought it from American Music as is, with the claim that there was no drive, but when I got it home it loaded up with the 4.3gb drive, they must have never tested it!). I looked into it a bit at the time for curiosity to see if it was something I could do myself and I remember the overall feedback was not to try it, that you had to have it done by fostex or something, but a few people said it could be done if you knew what you were doing. This is what I think I remember, but again, it was a long time ago. I am selling a zip drive w/ 3 blank disks on ebay that works with it, auction is at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...1077&item=2789069140&ssPageName=STRK:MESSE:IT

Currently at $0.99 with no reserve.

good luck,
Brent
 
Thanks for the information. I am trying to decide how to pursue what I want to do. I bought the FD-8 because it can load all 8 channels of ADAT via optical input. And frankly, unless I wanted to give my right arm, the upper end units capable of doing that, from Tascam, Yamaha Korg and Roland (would require a leg too.) and the like (16 digital and etc.) would cost more than I want to go right now so the FD-8 was the one I decided on. I want something that I can download 8+ channels into from ADAT recorders. Take it to my home. Do some mixing, independant channel effects then take it back to the studio for mastering and adding any overall effects, compression delay, inhancers etc for the final steps before CD burning. I have read a lot of help on this forum. Like using a digital mixer or digital converter like the Behringer ADA Pro-8 or the gold plated Alesis AI-3, solving the 8 track simultanious recording issue, using the mixer, get an adat optical capable audio card in order to use my computer, and finally use a SCSI external device, hard drive and or zip drive etc. I know you have to have a hard drive either internal or external in order to format for "mastering". So, what do I do? I even thought about getting a SCSI control card for my PC and see if I can find some soft ware or what ever, and use my PC to down load to. I have a Behringer virtual mixer on my PC. I do not know if this is possible, but one thing is for sure, I do need some type of drive.
Dave
 
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