[78-L] Pre-recorded DAT..ever seen one?

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 13:48:10 PDT 2012


Just for grins I got my SV 3700 out a few weeks ago and tried it....still
works, amazingly enough.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:39 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> The CBC recorded at 48.1 and I believe the BBC did as well. Intersound
> provided
> me with a JVC recorder, consumer model, which as I may have mentioned would
> record only at 48 from analog inputs and I had nothing digital to feed it
> anyway..this was in '92 when EVERYTHING was expensive including new CDs and
> blank DAT tapes. Today I can transfer anything and my stand-along HHB cd
> burner
> does automatic rate conversion.
>
> Oy, those Sony machines. Doorstops. A lot of people used them in the early
> days
> and never wound the tape to zero so you wouldn't have an absolute time
> code,
> and sometimes would start the recording RIGHT at the beginning of the
> tape..ever tried to add a start tone to one of those so you can copy it?
>
> My Panasonic 3700 died years ago. I've been using Tascams since then.
>
> dl
>
> On 8/21/2012 4:31 PM, Stewart, Joseph R wrote:
> > There's no indication on any of the Delta Music/Capriccio R-DATs as to
> whether they're 44.1 or 48 kHz.  If I had to guess I'd say the latter, but
> I have no way of knowing because, as I said yesterday, we don't have any
> working machines.  When moving from our old location on campus (2 old
> houses) to a brand-new classroom building in 1998-9, we had to store a
> crapload of older equipment, LPs, etc. in a warehouse in downtown
> Springfield... which later FLOODED in heavy rains in the summer of 2000.
>  Most of our R-DAT recorders were there in storage as we were transitioning
> to an all hard drive-based audio recording/editing system.  We used the
> Panasonic models Dave Lennick is so fond of... later bought a few
> piece-o'-junk Sonys that never worked right from day one.  And they're all
> that's left of our collection of DAT machines at KSMU.
> >         I found an old article on the Baltimore Sun's website from
> Nov.11, 1990, stating that Delta/Capriccio's commercial R-DATs were priced
> at a whopping $28 each!  We got 16 titles here at KSMU, including
> Marriner's Schumann Symphony cycle with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony; Ton
> Koopman playing Bach keyboard music; Sandor Vegh&  Camerata Salzburg in
> Mozart; and jazz titles by Toots Thielemans and other, less-well-known
> players.  Catalog numbers for the titles we have range from "99 016"
> (Chamber Music for Trumpet played by Ludwig Guttler) to "99 210" (the Ton
> Koopman Bach album).  The jazz titles had an "88" prefix. Again, that's
> just for the 16 tapes Delta Music serviced us with--they released quite a
> few more than that.
> >
> > Randy Stewart
> > Arts Producer
> > KSMU
> > 901 S. National
> > Springfield MO 65897
> >
> >
> >
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