Re: re[2]: Performance recorder

["Tom Ritchford" <tom@swirly.com>]

> i'd stay away from the vestax...but i'd look at fostex. they have a
line of 8 and 16 track recorders that are rack mountable, and resemble
adat's in form and feel...

but those are WAY over the $500 price tag!

 
> deknow
> 
> >> >I am considering buying a device to record my (looping) performances.
> >> >It should be rack mountable, and able to record up to four hours at a
> >> >stretch. DAT seems like a good option, although a tape change would 
>be
> >> >necessary at some point (not good). It seems like the ideal thing
would
> >> >be a 2-channel hard disk recorder. That way, I could just cable it up
> >> >to the computer at home after the gig and save the step of having to
> >> >play it back to put it onto CD. I don't recall ever seeing anything
> >> >like this, however. Is there anything like this available in the
> >> >under-$500 price range?
> 
> >> Well.
> 
> >> Vestax used to and perhaps still does make all sorts of fairly
> >> cheap though not very solid looking rack-mountable hard disk
> >> recorders... I can't seem to find them any more, you could
> >> get 'em for a song second-hand I'm sure.
> 
> 

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