thecongo said:
Would a JL Cooper PPS-2 work as well? or would I need something different. I'm not used to bridging technology together. hehe
I won't claim to know alot about the the PPS-2, but I believe you'll need more than that. It will generate SMPTE code, and when given SMPTE timecode it can spit out appropriate MIDI timecode. But I don't think it will actually control the transport of an ADAT or a TSR8.
As noted by various different posters above, in order to control the transport of ...
... the ADAT, so it chases the TSR8, you'd need a BRC ("big remote control," right?).
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the TSR8, so it chases the ADAT, you'd need a synchronizer like an MTS1000, ATS500 or ES50.
As to what should be the master and what should be the slave, there are two theories that I'm aware of: (i) the less stable transport should chase the more stable, (ii) do whatever's cheapest.
I'm not sure which is the more stable transport. I would guess the ADAT, but I don't really know. A TSR8 does have a quite stable transport, but the ADAT presumably is pretty much locked to a digital clock.
I don't know which way is cheaper either. What do BRCs go for? The market for tape deck synchronizers is thin, so prices vary wildly. An
MTS1000 would be $200+. It's also does MIDI sync, and provides a full range of remote functionality for two tape decks. The price of an ATS500 is all over the place: according to some notes I took awhile ago, Prepal said $125, and eBay transactions ranged between $42 and $200.