Topic: any one still run analog?

[setboy]

any one on here still run some kind of  analog rig?



Raphael

[F.O.Bean]

jason snow uses a d5 still

team p-burgh represent!

[nic]

I was just looking at my old Marantz PMD430, heh

[Steve J]

I saw a guy at a show recently using Nak 300's and a Nak cassette deck...a big sucker. Don't remember what (if any) preamp he used.

[greenone]

I've got a buddy in NYC who is anti-DAT for whatever reason. He made the jump right from a D5 to one of the Marantz CD burners...going on a year and a half now, I think. Another friend in Rhode Island goes AKG C1000's>D6 and has been for years.

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

I still have my Marantz PMD201 (in all it's mono glory). I can't decide what the heck I want to do with it. Anyone want it?

MIKE B

[LeftoverSammy]

I saw a guy at a show recently using Nak 300's and a Nak cassette deck...a big sucker. Don't remember what (if any) preamp he used.

Not sure if you are speaking of this guy, but up in the NW region I see this taper and his wife only every so often taping using a Nak550 and a pair of Nak300's. Funny too, since he is kind of strange about his rig, insisting that DAT is inferior to analog or how you should run your nice mics into his 550 deck since they would sound so much better than through that pesky V3 or DAT.    Usually this is communicated while he is butt-ass drunk and argumentative. I just overlook all that taper BS shit and enjoy observing his vintage deck in action. Those old 550's are beasts but well built!!

I've read some funny stories about folks, in the hayday of stealth Dead tapin, sneakin these monsters on wheel chairs with a person sitting on it pretending to be handycaped (or perhaps in some cases they were). Anyone else have any funny stories about sneakin old anlog decks into Dead shows??


LoS

[nic]

"insisting that DAT is inferior to analog"

recording to analog IS better than recording to dat.
its the transfer/copying from the analog master where degradation occurs and dat/digital shines.

[Steve J]

I saw a guy at a show recently using Nak 300's and a Nak cassette deck...a big sucker. Don't remember what (if any) preamp he used.

Not sure if you are speaking of this guy, but up in the NW region I see this taper and his wife only every so often taping using a Nak550 and a pair of Nak300's. Funny too, since he is kind of strange about his rig, insisting that DAT is inferior to analog or how you should run your nice mics into his 550 deck since they would sound so much better than through that pesky V3 or DAT.    Usually this is communicated while he is butt-ass drunk and argumentative. I just overlook all that taper BS shit and enjoy observing his vintage deck in action. Those old 550's are beasts but well built!!

THAT"S HIM!! He's real serious about it too...as he's plunking all those 'D' cell batteries in the tape deck. Never heard a copy of that show I was at; but I'd be interested in hearing the results. He was nice and all (a pox on me for not remembering his name); and his lady thanked me many times for helping them get their rig into the show. It was funny, though, after running into people who had the latest technology busting out of their bags, to see some one with that setup. Brought a tear of nostalgia to my eye. 

[Tim]

[jpschust]

recording to analog is better, just not to cassette :-)  hell if i could bring a 2" studder into the field youd see me there with it every show.  im just pretty sure thats more than portable :-)

[LeftoverSammy]

"insisting that DAT is inferior to analog"

recording to analog IS better than recording to dat.
its the transfer/copying from the analog master where degradation occurs and dat/digital shines.

I agree and should have pointed this out. 

Although this has been argued to death over the years and I refuse to take sides.......both have the pro's and cons.
Portability for most of us wins over quality issue on DAT vs Analog.......have yet to see a analog deck as small as an M1 that sounds as nice.


LoS

[setboy]

I still have my Marantz PMD201 (in all it's mono glory). I can't decide what the heck I want to do with it. Anyone want it?

MIKE B

hey do you have any pics i could see of that?


Raphael

[bodegahwy]

Stealth analog?  Right.  Maybe as a patcher with a D-6.

When I got my D-5Pro that was stealth.  The Nak550 and the Teac PC-10 I used before that not only used boxcars of D cells and were the size of big city phone books they had no phantom power.  So...  in addition to sneaking in the machine, the blank tapes, the extra batteries, cords, mics, shotguns and a mic stand you had to add some pre-amps to the mix.

Even at dead shows where taping was allowed when you were in, you still had to sneak the gear past security.  I used to be really good at subtly twisting my body during the pat down to keep hands away from whereever the hardware was.  We would split up the gear among several friends and go in separately because once they found batteries, cables, mics or anything else you could count on your whole bag being dumped out and a thorough frisking that would find pretty much anything you had.

In addition to having several people carry stuff in, we would have extra friends waiting to see if you got in.  If you did not, you would hand off the gear out of sight of security so they could give it a run as you would get checked very well when you came back in.

We also carried extra blank tapes.  If you saw security taking tapes from people you would swap out blanks for the show so far.  Somehow those knucklheads never caught on to that one.

Sorry for resurecting such an old post, but the topic was nostalgic.....

[creekfreak]

I know a lot of old school Max Creek tapers that still run analog decks...they love them to death and refuse to change until the deck dies