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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: bdasilva on November 18, 2008, 11:15:43 AM

Title: Fostex PD-6
Post by: bdasilva on November 18, 2008, 11:15:43 AM
is this cool? (as seen in Ebay sales forum)
Title: Re: Fostex PD-6
Post by: H₂O on November 18, 2008, 11:30:48 AM
From what I remember this unit came out at about the same time as the Original FR-2 (2004 timeframe or so).   It does record 24/192 (I do not know how many channels at once).  It has a 6 channel mixer built in and it records to DVD-RAM (3" 2.8GB discs) as primary recording media.  It does have the option for an internal 2.5" Hard Drive - so if you are interested in the one on ebay you will want to ask if it has this option (which I would assume it does not).


It is pretty big and was about $10K when new so I would guess the only people on this board whom may have used this unit would be professionals.

http://www.fostexusa.com/index.php?file=products/pfr/pd6

http://www.fostexusa.com/support/pdf/fostex/pd6/pd6_par_review.pdf

"24-bit 48Khz across 6 tracks...stereo at 24-bit 96Khz"  24-192 one 1 track -> This may be a limitation of the DVD-RAM drives speed though