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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: R. S. Field on January 04, 2012, 02:10:36 PM
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Is it possible/practical to 'overdub' on the Sound Devices 788T? Thanks.
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No, not with one unit since the 7xx boxes will not record and play back at the same time. I have "overdubbed" using two 7xx boxes; one for recording and the other for playback. After tracking I had to sync the tracks in a DAW but that is no big deal. Of course I did not have to use another 7xx for playback; I could have played back the WAV file on a computer and that would have been good enough I suppose.
Over on the SD forum people have been requesting overdubbing capability, (on the 788T in particular) but the hardware will not support it.
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Thank you so much for the detailed reply. I'll bet it sounds great. That's pretty much what I thought as to its 'limitations' re: multi-track recording. I guess it is asking a lot to want a RADAR the size of a Nagra tape recorder (or smaller) with the high converter quality ha ha. But if only...
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I guess it is asking a lot to want a RADAR the size of a Nagra tape recorder (or smaller) with the high converter quality ha ha. But if only...
Not asking too much when a sub $200 Tascam handheld can do it. But an architecture limitation may rule out retrofitting the capability here. No question they could easily build a new model with that capability in the same size package.