Re: Which Portable Digital 4-Track Recorder Is Best ?

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"hank alrich" <walkinay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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George Gleason wrote:

Hank I owned a dp01fx NOT Cd and while fine for short songs it did not
like
live recording
you could not burn unless you moved your files around partitions on the
hard
drive
and often a live set of music was bigger than the partition making bthe
process extreamly difficult, Tascams customer service was useless
I used the damn thing about 10 hours and sold it as it was WAY TOO DAMN
DIFFICULT for my/me to use
does haveing the CD burner built in eliminate the issues of the moving
about
in the partitions?
I also found the preamps "very noisy" I was feeding them directly from a
Beyer m88 so I do not feel the "source" was the noise issue

All I can say so far, George, since I've not yet gotten hands-on with
either unit, is that the folks here using them are far less technically
aware than you are and they are both getting decent tracks into the
Tascam and then mixing to CD easily right in the box. Both have said
they've found the manual straightforward. One of the reasons I haven't
yet used these recorders is that the owners are waiting to have a list
of questions long enough to make my driving time worthwhile, and so far
they're finding it all so simple they don't need me yet.

I agree that the file management system (I've read the manual) is
tedious, but hell, except for pre-OSX file managment that's how I see
all file management. But if burning CD's using the built-in facility was
difficult or confusing I am sure I would already have had to visit both
of these camps. As it is they've just hooked it all up and burned it all
down, without having to mess with the file managment needed to dump the
audio into a computer.

M88 is a fine mic (you know how often I tout those) but it isn't
extremely sensitive; it wants a little more gain than some other dynamic
mics. Further, many of these cheap preamps with solid-state front ends
do not work to my personal satisfaction with dynamic mics, especially
older models that were originally designed to feed preamps with input
transformers. Quite often one gets better results using even an
inexpensive condensor mic, which will be far less sensitive to loading.

(One of the nifty things about the RNP is that Mark McQuilken took all
that into consideration, insisting that since SM57's and 58's were
everywhere then his preamp was going to work well with them. He put a
touch of inductance at the input to mimic a transformer input and that
seems to have worked wonders for all dynamic mics.)

--
ha

Thanks Hank
and of course my question was only for "large " files
often a gig or more
I had little trouble working a single song at a time, which is what I am
sure the device was designed for
the only issue I could not get around on small files is that the name I
assigned the file(song) did not move with the file so I never really knew
what I was working on without playing some of it first
george


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