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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: Md2545 on November 14, 2007, 05:04:33 PM

Title: A-Time problem!
Post by: Md2545 on November 14, 2007, 05:04:33 PM

I was playing through some dats the other day and noticed that most of them didn't have any A-Time just zeros across the board. They all played fine, I looked at my settings everything seems ok so why do some of these DATs have A-Time and some don't. Could this be caused by the machine "waking up" out of sleep mode multiple times?


Thanks,
MD

Title: Re: A-Time problem!
Post by: TNJazz on November 14, 2007, 05:15:40 PM

Some decks never wrote it.  My Panasonic SV255 didn't.

Not really a big deal...

Title: Re: A-Time problem!
Post by: Tim on November 14, 2007, 06:22:04 PM

D8's had a-time issues

I had forgotten all about that. I bet there are threads on the issue on this board though

Title: Re: A-Time problem!
Post by: eric.B on November 14, 2007, 07:36:30 PM

dap1's required you to format the dat before recording or else there would be no time whatsoever..

Title: Re: A-Time problem!
Post by: Tim on November 14, 2007, 07:39:41 PM

quick, someone do an ascii "frmt"

Title: Re: A-Time problem!
Post by: sleepypedro on November 15, 2007, 07:58:48 PM

dat2wav (pc dds tape reading applet) won't successfully read tapes in a DDS trive if they don't have a-time.

you can always clone a master without a-time onto another dat to write an a-time index if it matters to you.