sstyle7
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Why would someone use an ADAT or some other recording device to hook to their computer if you can burn CDs with the computer? |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
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This could be a massive topic to be frank, there are a whole load of reasons. The pros and cons of external vs internal.
However, if you are talking of one particular person, maybe they just don't like PCs?
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sstyle7
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Well, that's what this site is about isn't it! Do you have an article or something about internal vs. external? |
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Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:52 pm |
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sstyle7
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I just wondered if there is a quality difference in recording to your hard drive as opposed to recording to an external recording device. I hear of a lot of people who use a computer in their recording process, but still have an external recorder. Why not just use the hard drive? I'm probably just missing something very simple here. |
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Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:52 pm |
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Peosea
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The quality is the same. You can record with the same sample rate as on a comp. For the advantages, it is closer to analog recording than recording on a comp. Also, You can have as many tracks as you want, without ever having to upgrade your comp. And you need a console too
Of course, you don't have the undo command, wich is very usefull. I've recorded soem demos on ADAT, it the results were quite amazing. In fact, having the money, I would use ADAT
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Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:27 pm |
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hobbesblb
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I think a lot of the reason that some people still use ADAT is because it has been around for a while. For portable recording this definately factors in, over say using a computer for recording. Tapes don't crash the same way that harddrives crash, so for portable there is a certain ruggedness. When you say ADAT, I am assuming you mean an ADAT tape machine as compared to what Alesis ADAT HD24 is, which is a harddisk recorder.
The second reason, and probably one of primary importance is because a lot of people bought ADATs, it was really what helped bring the price of digital recording down to a reasonable level before computer recording came along.
I say all of that to say this, ADAT is fading away quickly. ADAT only supported 16-bit 48 KHz and below sample rates (Please correct me is I am wrong). For that reason, ADAT is also becoming quite simply obsolete for more and more applications.
Harddisk recorders, like the Alesis ADAT HD24 are so cheap no days, with better sample rates, great reliability, that it seems to me that it would be a better way to go, and harddisks are so cheap nowdays that you can store a ton of music for quite cheap.
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Peosea
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Hobb is right, it is a fadding technology. It appear at the wrong timing i guess.
What I was trying to say, is when I began in recording,. it was when digital recording appearded. Ans as Hobb said, it allowed us to do a cheap but relliable recording.
And I'm quite nostalgic. ADAT is 16bit 48khz, but still, just enough to put on CD ( barely, I know). It just worked so well in my time. Many switched to ADAT because it allowed you to do digital recording, while allowing you to keep your analog instalation, because it worked quite the same way as analog tape.
But follow hobb advice, not mine. Don't buy it. The tape version I mean (unless it is really cheap, and you can't afford a comp) I'm the kind of guy who is byuing an old car just because the car is old. Don't ask why... 
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TimG
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i'm sure some ADATs run at 24bit 48khz? dont they?
they are more reliable than a computer but lack higher bitrates/samplerates and editing possibilities
I'm a HD person |
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