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[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Active Message Board ] [ Archive Home Page ] Posted by Eddie on April 12, 2000 at 06:31:50:
In Reply to: 8-track cassette posted by tony on April 11, 2000 at 18:40:14:
it kinda depends on what you're listening for and
what you want out of a medium. personally I
find cassette multitrack units to work fine
as long as they have DBX or Dolby S to take care
of the inherent noise and to bring the signal
levels back into normality.The issue (as you're probably aware of) is that
the smaller the track width the more difficult it
is to get a high-fidelity signal to tape.
Thus, a 2 track 1/2" tape has a greater fidelity
than an 8 track cassette (obviously).
from what I understand from your original post,
I would check out the 8 track MidiDisk unit
from Yamaha. It's clean quiet unit and it
has all the flexability of a cassette portastudio
but you don't get the fidelity loss (except in
the way of digital compression - but its really
no worse than an MP3 style compression - which
is tolerable). Actually I think MiniDisc is
much better in regards to high-end treble quality.If you're doing tunes which are more piano and
vocal oriented (with little or no pounding
drums or loud guitars) you would be better staying
away from analog medium b/c you'll be hard pressed
to get a constant strong signal to overcome the
noise floor of the tape. Eventually the tape
hiss would drive you bonkers!If you own a computer with an Ultra DMA hard
drive, look into a DAW software package like
Cool Edit Pro or similar. They multitrack to
more than 16 channels and depedning on your
hard drive space can take you as far as you want
with CD quality or better. best of all,
the software will probably cost you about as much
as a portastudio would.Good luck-
Eddie
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