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Re: [ARSCLIST] Glitchy dats
Are you SURE that the 1/4 inch were the backup and the DAT's were the
intended main tapes ?
It seems to me that the production mixer shows great wisdom ! Perhaps
even greater foresight ?
When the university first bought DAT machines for studio and film sound
use as oppossed to the tried and VERY true and higly maintainable
NAGRA's , especially for field use , the whole thing didn't work for me
considering the fussy transports and extremely fragile tape.
Bob Hodge
>>> lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 8/4/2006 3:48 PM >>>
David,
DAT's can be a nightmare. Not only have we encountered problems with
tapes just a few years old, but have also had (mostly shell related)
problems with new tapes from supposedly reputable manaufacturers.
A few years ago, when transferring tapes for dailies on a big budget
feature, we had some tapes come in that would come to an absolute stop
when we attempted to play them. Of the 5 DAT recorders we had, only one
(non-time code) machine would even rewind the tape! The production
mixer
lost a lot of sleep over it. Fortunately, he was still doing 1/4"
backup.
I foresee DAT and DTRS tapes being the next big problem to come (not to
mention the old PCM-F1 and X-86 tapes!). This is going to make analog
tape problems look like a walk in the park in comparison.
Scott D. Smith
Chicago Audio Works, Inc.
David Lennick wrote:
>I've been sent a load of DATs to transfer to CD for auditioning, and I
find
>that a number of them dating from 1996 have glitches. I don't know if
there's
>one brand more prone than others since I'm not monitoring
consistently, but
>they do seem to turn up on Sony PDP-124s. Anyone have similar
experiences? Any
>thoughts on whether this was a bad brand (I had problems with it
myself) or if
>it was a matter of us not thoroughly erasing the tapes before using
them or not
>fast forwarding or rewinding them before using them?
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