What is the best portable DAT player?
Digsy14
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Evan Barnes
location recording by news and movie crews. I have one and I love it. If you
have any other audio or recording questions check out www.ehb.com and click
on ASK THE AUDIO PROFESSIONALS. Post questions and talk with other people
interested in audio and recording.
Sincerely,
Evan H. Barnes
EHB Productions
Digsy14 wrote in message <19990820143053...@ng-bj1.aol.com>...
Richard Norman
>
> Anyone have any suggestions for me?
I've recently been using an HHB PDR-1000 for travelling audio work, with
a Sony TCD-D10 for backup. The HHB is not cheap, but it sounded good and
seems to be very well constructed. I was running it off mains power, so
I can't comment on battery life.
Richard Norman
--
"It is rare for jokes to find their source in Beauty's graceful innards,
but certainly they often emerge from the smelly armpits of Malice."
Scott Dorsey
>The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used for
>location recording by news and movie crews. I have one and I love it. If you
Well, it's the best of the cheapies. But it ain't no hhB or StellaDAT.
Still a good buy for the money.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
ScotFraser
In article <Jvpv3.364$lv.27648@sandstorm>, "Evan wrote:
<<The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used for
location recording by news and movie crews.>>
Actually, serious film production sound requires time code, which the Tascam
doesn't support. There is no industry standard, but since portability is mainly
a requirement of the film industry the players in that field are the Fostex &
HHB time code DATs.
Scott Fraser
David Morgan (MAMS)
>The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used for
>location recording by news and movie crews. I have one and I love it.
Dear Evan,
That's a fine opinion. It should have stopped there.
>If you
>have any other audio or recording questions check out www.ehb.com and click
>on ASK THE AUDIO PROFESSIONALS. Post questions and talk with other people
>interested in audio and recording.
One cannot enter the "ASK THE AUDIO PROFESSIONALS" page of your
new website as it is password protected. May I ask... WHO are your "audio
professionals" anyway ? What reason would one truly have to leave this world
wide forum in pursuit of more "professional" answers on your private web site ?
Be a little humble, will ya' ?
We are all very pleased that as a musician you did well in college. We are also
very pleased that you may be one of the few who actually grasped something and
completed a stint in a recording school.
BUT !!!! Looking over you website a second time, I see that the most valuable thing
you offer is the advice to bands preparing to record (except for the "don't drink milk"
thing!). The remainder of your nearly non-existant credits, as well as your "just enough
to get by" equipment list, coupled with your confusing pricing and continued bolstering
of your website as a place to gain a somehow 'greater' knowledge of audio, is certain to eventually lead to some serious flaming on
this newsgroup. (I suppose that you 'master'
with the same monitor system, in the same square room that you mix in - making it more
or less futile - in most cases).
As Fletcher has said, there are those on this newsgroup who have more experience
than your oldest t-shirts, but do you see ANY of them attempting to steer traffic toward
their personal web pages unless a *specific* question can be answered there ? NO.
This is like a bad sales tactic, and anyone can tell you about how well sales weasels
are accepted here if they try to hawk something.
It is my sincere belief and recommendation, that you take the entire last two sentences
(which you repetitively tag to each and every question that you have responded to - and
some a bit inaccurately) on this group, and reduce it to nothing more than a pointer
in your signature file.
IOW, please do away with this nearly laughable and overly repetitive line.....
>If you
>have any other audio or recording questions check out www.ehb.com and click
>on ASK THE AUDIO PROFESSIONALS. Post questions and talk with other people
>interested in audio and recording.
It is somewhat unjustified considering the level of expertise among the majority
of regular respondents to this group. You will notice that those designers and
engineers who have earned their reputation here, have their websites referred
to by others. Perhaps this will someday happen to you. But for the moment.....
You are more than welcome here, and I would suppose that many feel as I do, in
that your zeal to help and become a viable recording entity in your neighborhood is
respected. But you are placing this pabulum, if you will, on a worldwide newsgroup
of audio professionals, many of which would look at your website and laugh themselves
into a hernia. Many would not, so given some conservatism on your part here, there
is definitely a niche for you.
You also have made a number of questionable responses to posts here, placing
your _opinion_ therein as more of an undebatable 'fact', than simply a contribution
of ideas or perceptions. Please temper your zeal with a little humility and open
mindedness, that your opinions may in fact NOT be that of the majority, or even
considered acceptable by some. Lay back and enjoy the growth process.
Good luck with the continued growth and success of your new business.
David Morgan (MAMS)
Morgan Audio Media Service
Dallas, TX (972) 622-1972
___________________________________________
Montana Joe
considered. Otherwise he's a neurotic overreacting flaming homo
sexual. Not that I have anything against queers..........but you know
how neurotic they can be.
Joe
sorry sorry I just cant get away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard Norman
>
> Evan...this man (relatively speaking) has some points that should be
> considered. Otherwise he's a neurotic overreacting flaming homo
> sexual. Not that I have anything against queers..........but you know
> how neurotic they can be.
>
> Joe
>
> sorry sorry I just cant get away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that you Stanley?
Tom MacIntyre
>Evan...this man (relatively speaking) has some points that should be
>considered. Otherwise he's a neurotic overreacting flaming homo
>sexual. Not that I have anything against queers..........but you know
>how neurotic they can be.
>
>Joe
Rumours of your leaving have been greatly exaggerated - even by you...
Tom
Jay Rose
|:
|: >The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used for
|: >location recording by news and movie crews. I have one and I love it.
You may have one and love it, but professional movie crews use either the
HHB, Fostex, or Stellavox DATs. Tascam is acceptable as a backup, if you
can bypass its analog circuits.
--
Jay Rose's Digital Playroom
industry journalist / Clio+Emmy winning Sound Designer
tutorials, info and funny stuff @ http://www.dplay.com
correct return address is jay at DPLAY and then the dot com thing.
Ben
>
> The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used for
I have one, and I like it.. but I would not call it the "best" portable
DAT. The sound is very good, the features are pretty good.. the battery
and charging system stinks. If I could have spent the money I'd have an
HHB PortaDAT.
-Ben
Martin Harrington
can't..... teach !!
Evan, certainly, by his own admission in his web site, falls into the
educator category
Martin Harrington
David Morgan (MAMS) <ma...@airmail.net> wrote in message
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> Evan Barnes wrote in message ...
>
> >The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used for
> >location recording by news and movie crews. I have one and I love it.
>
Lorin David Schultz
>>
>> The industry standard portable dat player is the Tascam DAP-1. Used
>> for location recording by news and movie crews.
It is? I'd love to know how they're dealing with the fact that it
doesn't do timecode.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have naything against the Tascam, but I
woudn't recommend it for film or video work. It's not the right tool
for the job.
Lorin
Eric Toline
(Sony Datman, etc) are used on film shoots as back up machines that are
rolled with the main recorders. Those machine do imprint "A" time on the
tape, i.e. hrs: min: sec: but no frames. Better to have a back up with
the slate "clap" as a sync mark or "A" time then no back up at all.
Then there are those production sound mixers who do roll two HHb's or
two Fostex time code recorders and even some who roll a dat and an
analog Nagra together.
Eric Toline