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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: B_Pony on December 07, 2004, 02:02:17 PM
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Can anyone give me information on the history and evolution of Dat recorders? Any info will help.
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All I can say is they came out around 1987. I think one of the GD compendium books has a bunch of info on them
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DAT (1987) - Digital Audio Tape
Introduced in 1987 for the professional studio market, digital audio tapes quickly claimed the high ground in professional recording industry circles. DAT's never garnered consumer market penetration because of the high cost of DAT players. However, they remained a mainstay of the pro-audio world because of their relatively low price and digital storage capabilities.
Our own government was a major contributor to the DAT never making in-roads into the consumer market. Bowing to corporate "pressures" (and not surprisingly, that of the voters who put them there) a stiff tax was added to each DAT tape sold. The collected funds were used to "compensate" the powerful music industry for songs that could possibly be pirated. Our constitutional doctrine of "innocent until proven guilty" sadly and frighteningly, got tossed out the window. Most insiders "in the know", view it as just another case of flagrant "corporate welfare" in operation at it's best, and the best politicians that money could buy .. Not to be beaten, the DAT manufacturers quickly re-designed machines that could utilize less expensive computer-grade DAT tape to circumvent the steep tax. The damage to the consumer marketplace however, was done and sadly never recovered.===from the web..
Hope this helps..
Ray
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And to see DATs in a historic perspective take a look at this link:
http://www.proaudioreview.com/par/may00/SonyPCM-F1RetroReviewWeb.shtml
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(http://www.theimann.com/Analog/Sony_PCM_F1/Sony_1.jpg)
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Hell yea, thanks a lot. That really helps out a lot.
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This page should help a lot as far as the Sony portables go:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/sonypor.htm
Can't say I've ever seen a D1, looks interesting.
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(http://www.theimann.com/Analog/Sony_PCM_F1/Sony_1.jpg)
can you imagine mid 80's gd tapers lugging one of those into a show? or even sneaking them in prior to 10/84? crazy....
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I carried a 12v Panasonic VHS deck around for a while, Pre-1990.
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now that's what call a team effort! back before we had all this small gear. how many M1s would it take to fill the same amount of space as that? :P
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now that's what call a team effort! back before we had all this small gear. how many M1s would it take to fill the same amount of space as that? :P
I have dap1's stacked that high and spread out over a few seats :P
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now that's what call a team effort! back before we had all this small gear. how many M1s would it take to fill the same amount of space as that? :P
It wasn't the space that was a bitch, it was the WEIGHT!
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now that's what call a team effort! back before we had all this small gear. how many M1s would it take to fill the same amount of space as that? :P
I have dap1's stacked that high and spread out over a few seats :P
;D ...... reminds me of that picture someone poted a while back from an $CI show when they wtill fed digital board patches. that was some crazy shit! i don't think my search skills could find that ::) ;D
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This page should help a lot as far as the Sony portables go:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/sonypor.htm
Can't say I've ever seen a D1, looks interesting.
The rest of this site is great, too - DAT for your car!