DAT-heads Digest #991

Contents:
  Re: DAT-heads Digest #990 (Ryan Gear)
  Wha? (aadam jacobs)
  re: DAT? heads? (Nick Georges)
  lack of Forums.. (Nick Georges)
  Re: I guess we should call the digital recording-heads now? (Carlos Martinez)
  Re:  DAT-heads Digest #990 ("Todd Norman")
  scms stripper needed (Mike Parker)


From: Ryan Gear <ryan@crewcial.org>
Subject: Re: DAT-heads Digest #990
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:07:19 -0500

> So since this list is kinda dead now and the Oade forums are gone, is the=
> re any other comparable digital recording forum where people are still sw=
> apping gear and answering questions? Or can anyone tell me how to modify =

You should check out taperssection.com



From: aadam jacobs <aadamjacobs@yahoo.com>
Subject: Wha?
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:36:09 -0800 (PST)

Jason exclaimed:
> 
> So since this list is kinda dead now...

Are you kidding?

Some of you might think that DAT is going the way of
the Dodo (or to put it in tech terms, beta), but what
you pessimists don't realize is that when a medium has
been so useful and so viable for so long, it doesn't
slip away. If one looks to History for answers we find
that people are still recording onto tape, and
_prefer_ it for it's natural analog sound.
Certainly the same arguement can't be given for DAT,
but it's been around a very long time.
It wasn't until fairly recently that betacams were out
out to pasture. Long after consumer beta died,
professionals still used the medium. Betacams are
still very expensive because they're still useful, but
most find that DV is cheaper with similar results.

DAT was never a consumer medium. Because of that there
are warehouses full of data stored on DATs (my home
bing one of them). It would be foolish for the
principle makers of DAT hardware to abandon the
medium.

I think it's easy to jump on the bandwagon for the new
exciting "upgrade" in technology, but as we've seen
with the renewed interest in vinyl by even those who
weren't born when the first CDs hit stores, tried and
true formats will stick around as long as they need
to...which may well be long after even the most
hardcore among us have long passed on to something
else.

Aadam



From: Nick Georges <nick@nickspicks.com>
Subject: re: DAT? heads?
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:37:34 -0500

you guys w/your "i'll never get rid of my massive DAT collection", and 
"the media is still going strong"...
you crack me up.

DAT decks in your car?
sheesh.

transfer these things, at your leisure...
dump them on a fat ipod or something, and get a stereo in car w/an AUX 
input, its all the rage these days in car stereos for the iPod generation.

No doubt..the tapes will last a long time.  Longer than any of the decks 
will.





From: Nick Georges <nick@nickspicks.com>
Subject: lack of Forums..
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:40:35 -0500

yea, this list is sort of dead.  and the Oade forum is missed as well.

but, there is always the taperssection.com, which has been the best 
forum all along.
come and check it out...register and be a player!
:)




From: Carlos Martinez <carlmart@centroin.com.br>
Subject: Re: I guess we should call the digital recording-heads now?
Reply-To: Carlos Martinez <carlmart@centroin.com.br>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:39:16 -0200


> So since this list is kinda dead now and the Oade forums are gone, is the=
> re any other comparable digital recording forum where people are still sw=
> apping gear and answering questions? Or can anyone tell me how to modify =
> my SBM-1 to work with the S/PDIF input on the Digidesign MBOX2.

Yes, there is. Tapers move there now:

http://taperssection.com/index.php

I am not a taper, but I guess you may find a lot of info there.



Carlos E. Martínez
________________________

carlmart@centroin.com.br




From: "Todd Norman" <norma023@umn.edu>
Subject: Re:  DAT-heads Digest #990
Reply-To: "Todd Norman" <norma023@umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:11:44 -0600

not to steer traffic away from this list, but taperssection.com does a lot 
of this for me



>So since this list is kinda dead now and the Oade forums are gone, is there
>any other comparable digital recording forum where people are still
>swapping gear and answering questions?





From: Mike Parker <mikeparker5@yahoo.com>
Subject: scms stripper needed
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:56:56 -0800 (PST)

 I need one of those old scms stripper thingies for a
Pioneer PDR-19RW recorder that I bought used recently
(to replace my old hhb 850, which finally died after 8
years of megause). Anyone have one for sale? I really
didn't want to go consumer-recorder, but it was a good
deal, and it is pretty much the same as the old HHB
(love their analog to digital converters, they sound
very sweet). So, if someone can help me out, that
would be great.

thanks,
Mike Parker



 
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