Kramer said:
Thanks for the info Jeff!I actually got turned onto the idea of a Jaz drive from your very informative post from a few days ago to pete halo.I see the pros and cons of adat and scsi devices.For me a Jaz drive just made more sense because I dont have a digital soundcard.I cant fit another internal Jaz drive into my computer unless I pull out one of my 2 CD drives.I kinda like both of them for copying purposes but who knows,I may pull out the CD drive,leave the CD-RW intact and make room for an internal Jaz drive in the near future.
Thanks for the informative post located here!
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That was a fun thread.
You can just buy another external for your computer too. You don't need to get rid of one of your drives (though I just use my cd burner in my computer as my normal cd rom, and haven't had a problem in over two years). Just grab the 2940 series scsi card, and it has an external scsi port on it as well as the internal hookup. So, you can grab another external drive for maybe an extra 5 bucks over what you would get an internal for. It is so nice to be able to pop the jaz disk out of the Fostex jaz drive, and pop it right into the computer jaz drive. I did this last night, and it is so cool. I had recorded four tracks for a paying customer, and I screwed up on the bass track. I just saved all the tracks as wav files on the Fostex Jaz, and popped that disk right in the computer Jaz, and went into the multitrack view in cooledit, and they loaded right up, I believe, even faster than my normal hard drive. My 2940 scsi card is 20 megs per second, and damn that Jaz drive is fast. I really believe they loaded up faster than if they had been on my normal hard drive. Of course, they were all in sync, and I simply took that bass track and copied good portions that matched the bad portions, and pasted them right into the mistake spots. I fixed the mistakes, then did some eq, and compressed the bass, got rid of the noises at the beginnings of the tracks where i was moving around. I then saved each file back to the jaz disks, overwriting the originals, and popped my disk back into the Fostex Jaz drive, and loaded them right back up, all in just minutes.
Later, I recorded a keyboard track with many mistakes. Since my other four tracks are still on my jazz disk, I can save my keyboard track to that disk, load it and one of the other tracks for reference back into Cooledit, and fix the keyboard track, and load that sucker back in too.
This shit is just too fun.
Jeff