| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: Start drooling
by Pete_S | 05/18/01 at 13:16:56
Saw this interesting little bit on Harmony Central:
http://www.bertschelectronics.com/
Some newcomers from Canada... they have (or will?) release(d) a 32-track 24/96 hard disk recorder with all kinds of effects onboard. 32 inputs with eq and compression on every channel. It looks cool and all, but they don't list a price or any way of actually buying the thing, which is really strange if the company's gone to the trouble of announcing the thing via other websites. Hmm.
But... damn... that thing looks cool if it's for real and if the company lasts long enough to round it out with the "forthcoming accessories"...
Subject: Re: Start drooling
by JR#97 | 05/18/01 at 14:01:10
I saw that. Looks damn expensive. That new Tascam looks pretty good if you can give up a few children. I'm still waiting for that new Alesis. Bang for the buck.
Subject: Re: Start drooling
by Tim_Z | 05/18/01 at 14:14:00
Yes, the Bertsch 32 is pretty cool. The guy Jean Paul Bertsch, used to be the head of IVL technologies here in Victoria BC. When IVL closed shop he moved to Quesnel BC and started up this business. It is not new, He has been making similar units for quite a few years.
I looked into the Bertsch 32 as an option in place of the new Alesis HD24 (assuming it ever makes it to market) It sells for around $7000 Canadian (around $4500 US). He told me that it uses the same converters as the Radar 24 system (which are supposed to be very good) Note that Radar (also a Canadian made product by iZ Technology) are going to be producing a 24 track 24 bit system for $3000 US.
Two things to note about the Bertsch 32 are:
1. It has no lightpipe system for digital transfers to PC. Personally, I think they made a big mistake here, as most people nowadays use PC's for editing, and to not be able to use it for digital transfers would be a real shame after spending so much on the system; and
2. As far as I am aware, there are no built in sync features. I think they should have added something like the ADAT 9 pin connection for syncing to PC, etc. For example, you would have to stripe one of the channels with SMPTE timecode to sync a PC midi sequencing program. For people that would be switching from an ADAT based studio, this would be a nice feature. My whole system is set-up to sync PC with the ADAT 9 pin, as are MANY others.
Consdering the cost, and the lack of those two features, I'm putting my hopes on the HD24. ;)
Tim Z
Subject: Re: Start drooling
by DanS | 05/18/01 at 20:22:46
Aren't IVL the guys who came up with the "Pitch Rider" midi guitar converter a number of years back? ::)
Subject: Re: Start drooling
by Tim_Z | 05/19/01 at 00:36:01
Yup :) The pitch rider was one of the first guitar synth set-ups. I also think IVL had something to do with the Digitech line as well. Jean Paul Bertsch is a brilliant engineer.
TZ