Chaining DAT Recorders

[Larry Pham]

That's pretty cool! Gorilla recording if I ever saw it :)

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, DJ Android <android.dj at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was a fun idea I saw the other day
>
> sound and video samples inside
>
>
> http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/02/cheap-tape-saturation-hack-delicious-distortion-with-a-tape-to-cd-adapter/
>
> > On 23/04/11 11:46, Larry Pham wrote:
> >> From the days I heard music played from DAT, I have always loved the
> sound.
> >> Warm, clean and that je ne sais quoi quality about it. I later learned
> about
> >> AD/DA converters and that was what gave the DAT its "sound". Now that
> DAT
> >> recorders are a dime a dozen, I've managed to score 2 Panasonic SV-4100
> and a
> >> Tascam DA30MKII. I would like to experiment chaining them together to
> pass a
> >> signal through the AD/DA converters using the spdif and analog inputs.
> Before I
> >> go rush out to buy more spdif cables, I'm wondering if there would be
> any
> >> benefit by doing this? Will I get a super fat coloured and saturated
> sound or
> >> will I just add more noise and end up with crap?? Any opinions?
> >
> > Hi Larry
> >
> > Yeah - early "pro" ADDA was really crap, hence the "sound", but there are
> so
> > many variants on conversion. I think generally the terms fat, coloured,
> > saturated, are not associated with these conversion systems.
> >
> > By contrast, analogue distortion, whether it be from a filter in a synth,
> or
> > more subtly from the endless signal paths in a Soundcraft mixing desk,
> tended to
> > add something musical, even if it was unintended.
> >
> > Tony (HB)
>
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