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This dredged up a question I had two decades ago and never looked up. Perhaps someone here knows. I got to use a Tascam DA-38 a few times. It was an 8 track an
by afandian 1y ago
This dredged up a question I had two decades ago and never looked up. Perhaps someone here knows.
I got to use a Tascam DA-38 a few times. It was an 8 track and I could have sworn it had punch-in recording. It used DTRS, not DAT, but apparently it shared the helical scan. Presumably the 8 tracks were interleaved on a single bitstream, so how was it possible to seamlessly replace one track live? Was there more than one head? How did the clock sync work for simultaneous reading and writing?
- tecleandor 1y agoI've checked an SoS review [0], and it seems like it was a multi-head operation (although I don't know if that's what enables the track punching): > The ability to monitor off tape during recording is due to the DA38's 4‑head drum layout. -- 0: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/tascam-da38
- afandian 1y agoThanks, and shame on me for not looking it up first! I still wonder if the tracks were kept clock-synched or whether punch-ins would produce clock dislocations, and if they were somehow buffered... This SoS article doesn't answer it, but provides more background. https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/all-about-digital-audio-part-4 https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/all-about-digital-...
- tecleandor 1y agoAh, that's interesting! I'm going to read it later. Thanks!