RE: OT: other recorder recommendations ?

["William Walker" <billwalker@looppool.info>]

What about an Alesis Masterlink? If I'm not mistaken that does real time
hard disk recording and mastering  with variable sample rate, and has a CD
burner. I think it has 450 minutes of storage time at 24 bit resolution  It
is two rack spaces and has gotten excellent reviews from some of the
industries best engineers. You would need to connect to it from your rig,
via XLRs I believe, but other than that it is way deeper than most DAT
machines, no matter how sophisticated. you might visit the Alesis website
for more info.
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hamburg [mailto:mark_hamburg@baymoon.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:08 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: OT: other recorder recommendations ?


On a related subject. I'm looking for a stereo recorder to use with my
rig when doing live gigs. Preferably something rackmountable or easily
hidden inside my relatively small rack. Preferably higher bit depth
than 16-bit so that I've got headroom to spare while playing. My
portable DAT fails on multiple fronts such as being somewhat bulky and
being only 16-bit and recording at 48kHz unless one feeds it digital
which is non-ideal when the target is CD output.

I'm seriously considering getting a MOTU 828mkII to replace my current
line mixer and it would be lovely if it had an option to just record to
a portable Firewire hard disk, but it doesn't.

My somewhat Rube Goldberg option would be something like an ART DI/O as
a front end to the DAT deck and figure out how to mount them both to
something at least moderately portable. That leaves me at 16-bit, but
my understanding is that the ART stuff does a reasonable job of
avoiding digital clipping.

Mark