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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: Professor chaos on May 30, 2005, 06:18:22 PM
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i run my mini me into a dat (pcm-m1). 24/48 is the highest i can set the mini me and still get a signal to the dat. my question is: am i recording a 24/48 signal to the dat tape? i know that dat is normally 16/48 but i thought this was because of the limitations of the adc in the unit, not the dat tape itself. i hope this isn't too confusing.
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DAT is a 16 bit device, it is taking the 24 bit feed you are giving it and dropping whatever bits are necessary to get to 16 bit
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those bits are being truncated, i would def not try this
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ok thanks for the help. i thought the higher resolution would be better. looks like i was wrong again. thanks for clearing this up for me.
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Higher resolution is generally better, just gotta understand how the MMe is laid out. The mini-me always converts @ 24 bit. However; when you set the front panel to 24/?? it's not going through it's dithering algorithm(uv22hr) like it would if it were set to 16/??. Thus sending a 24 bit signal to your DAT deck, which it can't handle & consequentially truncates(drops) the least signifigant 8 bits. You'll need a 24bit recorder(laptop,sd722,fr-2 etc) to take advantage of recording true 24 bit material. Hope that helps a bit.
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that helps alot thank you all very much.