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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2010, 05:21:08 AM »
Sweetwater put up a video demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY_2kzy1BPg
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2010, 05:47:32 PM »
Mics: A-51s LE, CK 930, Line Audo CM3, AT853Rx (hc,c,sc),  ECM 121, ECM 909A
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2010, 07:56:31 PM »
It looks like the second recording is made at a *much* lower level according to the graphic on their site: http://tascam.com/products/dr-2d.html

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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2010, 04:06:04 PM »
any news about the battery life?
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2010, 05:14:30 PM »
any news about the battery life?

A decent pair of Duracell rechargeables (2600mah) should get you near 10 hours.  The 1800mah lithium on the DR-1 is good for about 5 1/2 hours.

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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2010, 05:44:01 PM »
any news about the battery life?

A decent pair of Duracell rechargeables (2600mah) should get you near 10 hours.  The 1800mah lithium on the DR-1 is good for about 5 1/2 hours.

Not that 10 hours is bad or anything, but I was hoping that this one would be a big improvement over the DR-1, especially with the M10 boasting 20+ hours.
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2010, 07:15:48 PM »
any news about the battery life?

A decent pair of Duracell rechargeables (2600mah) should get you near 10 hours.  The 1800mah lithium on the DR-1 is good for about 5 1/2 hours.

Not that 10 hours is bad or anything, but I was hoping that this one would be a big improvement over the DR-1, especially with the M10 boasting 20+ hours.

I don't tape anything that requires 20+ hours of continual roll time.  Maybe if I was stealthing the Jerry Lewis Telethon, but that would be the exception.  Hope that helps.    ;D
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2010, 07:36:49 PM »
sometimes it's just nice to not have to worry about changing batteries - especially when I'm out in the field for a day or three.

As intriguing as this device is, I've been thinking about the dual-recording function. More specifically, I'm wondering if the preamp is purely digital, where both .wav files can be written before and after digital amplification.  I'm not sure how they could do it with an analog preamp unless they have two A/D Converters at different gain stages...but I'd expect that to drive the cost a bit higher. Thoughts anybody?



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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2010, 08:12:22 PM »
User Manual now available: http://tascam.com/i-3890-232-128-0-0B0C770E.pdf

Disappointing battery life, judging on the specification estimates. Too bad, since it is indeed a very interesting package.

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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2010, 12:44:00 PM »
I need a bitbucket (non-optical), with decent sounding built-in mics taboot.....again, is that too much to ask?   ???
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2010, 04:04:45 PM »
It looks like the second recording is made at a *much* lower level according to the graphic on their site: http://tascam.com/products/dr-2d.html
^^^This is not a correct interpretation. You CAN make the 2nd recording much lower...or not. The manual has some pretty cool things. The short version of the dual recording mode is: If you use the "mic in", you can adjust the difference between to recordings from the same source between 6 to 12db in 1db increments. It also looks like you can go 4 channel in the sense that if you use line in and mic in together (2 different sets of mics), it creates 2 totally different recordings. Not 4 channel in the sense you'd need a way to mix, but there also is an overdub mode, so interesting possibilities all around for a fairly inexpensive unit.
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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2010, 05:19:37 PM »
I don't tape anything that requires 20+ hours of continual roll time.  Maybe if I was stealthing the Jerry Lewis Telethon, but that would be the exception.  Hope that helps.    ;D

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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #27 on: February 16, 2010, 09:26:30 PM »
bump* just in case you didn't see...sound pro's selling at a really great price of $200 on Thursday so if you want to try it out...thats a great price.

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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #28 on: February 17, 2010, 09:43:22 AM »
6 hours of recording time on Duracells is not bad.  I bet longer on NIMH's.  I think the max I could get on the DR-1 was 5 hours and change.  And that has never been an issue for me with the DR-1.  I might make the plunge for this recorder.     

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Re: TASCAM DR-2d - announced at NAMM
« Reply #29 on: February 18, 2010, 05:02:49 PM »
There are four dual recording modes -

Off, Dual, Mix, Line

Off - well, the feature is off
Dual - two recordings of the same mic recording at different levels (-6dB to -12dB at 1dB increments)
Mix - one recording of mic and line mixed (mix control 1 to 100)
Line - Mic and line to separate files (level 1 to 100)

In addition the second file in any dual recording mode can be auto gain controlled or limited.

File name for the second file describes the mode used to create it.

All pretty neat at the price point.

 

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