Adat recorders & Mixing consoles

guitar_player · Joined: Mar 10, 2006 Posts: 3 Location: home

I want to buy ada recorder and mixing console. So, i have a guestion: what mixing consoles support connectiong to ada recorders
(probably, the question is stupid, but i'm a newbie Smile

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Newbie with money Smile

I've found some mixing consoles there: http://mixing-console.awardspace.com.

deknow · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:39 am Post subject:

...i would go with a harddisk system rather than adat myself (mackie, tascam, etc). many of these have adat ins/outs, but hd is much more reliable than tape (imho).

deknow

Repeatpeak · Joined: Dec 25, 2003 Posts: 46 Location: Boston, MA, USA

yup, I wouldn't buy a tape ADAT system either. Just had a session the other day. The guy ran ADAT and had difficulties even finding tapes in stores. Got some at Guitar Center. Machine ate some of the tapes. Then recorded a test well. But after the session we noticed that the machine had recorded jittery and assumed Guitar Center might have had those tapes lying around for maybe some years.

Go harddrive recorders (Fostex, Alesis, Mackie, etc.) They all support the ADAT lightpipe system, which allows you to carry 8 audio tracks over one simple S/PDif optical cable.

Philip

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:19 am Post subject:

Great advice. ADAT tape is dead. HD recording is the way to go.