re[2]: Performance recorder

[Dean Stiglitz <deknow@deknow.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...they have removeable hard drives, and are easy to use. 
a bit of overkill for 2 track, but when the heads go out of alignment (or 
the transport), you buy a new cheap hard drive, not an expensive (not 
always successful) DAT repair.

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.