WAV files from a D2424LV

[arjoll]

Hi

In late 1993 I helped a friend with a band record an album - I am not a musician, but am a sound guy (and accountant, and IT guy, but I digress) so I engineered most of the tracks for him. Unfortunately I couldn't be around to mix the album, and was never happy with the final mix.

Yesterday I realised that it was about time I "finished the job" I started just over 11 years ago and have today discovered that the studio in Dunedin (2 1/2 hours away) still have the Tascam MSR-16 we recorded on, and my friend who now lives at the other end of the country still has the original 1/2" masters.

I also have a client who has a semi-pro (for Invercargill) studio, and who have a range of equipment including a couple of Aardvark Q10 interfaces and a Fostex D2424LV.

Because of the distance and my day job, my plan was to take a day off, drive to Dunedin, hire the studio for a couple of hours and copy the 16 track masters onto the D2424LV, then later on copy the data over to the PC and mix it at my leisure.

Problem is that the client haven't invested in the Ethernet interface for the D2424LV, and I read in the docs that it is limited when exporting WAV files to HDD to a FAT16 2 GB partition.

Has anyone had experience with this recorder, and exporting from this recorder? Is this unit using anything like a standard filesystem? What methods would you use?

Thanks for any advice you can give!

Cya
Andrew

 

[xstatic]

What I can tell you is that the Fostex D2424lv uses a completely proprietary file system. Your best bet is to get the tracks transfered directly into a DAW setup. Most likely straight from the Tascam outputs. Otherwise you could transfer all 16 to the Fostex, and then use the ADAT optical outs to transfer into a DAW and make yourself a DVD. That way you will have a lot of flexibility to use the tracks in whatever setup you want later

 

[arjoll]

What I can tell you is that the Fostex D2424lv uses a completely proprietary file system. Your best bet is to get the tracks transfered directly into a DAW setup. Most likely straight from the Tascam outputs. Otherwise you could transfer all 16 to the Fostex, and then use the ADAT optical outs to transfer into a DAW and make yourself a DVD. That way you will have a lot of flexibility to use the tracks in whatever setup you want later

The second option is what I'm looking at - just need to track down something with ADAT inputs locally. I would prefer to go straight from the Tascam into the DAW, bypassing the Fostex, but the Fostex is portable-ish and there's 250km between the Tascam and the DAW!

Thanks for your help.

Cya
Andrew