Topic: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2

[Gutbucket]

Healy used to have weather monitoring gear up above the stage to monitor and adjust for temp and other atmosphereic conditions (humidity, pressure, wind speed, etc).. the data was digitally linked to the soundboard and recorded to a computer along with lots of other information for tweakage and post-tour analysis back in the 80's.

Damn... I knew Dan Healy was doing some magick voodoo but that's pretty cool and weird  to dial in the delay!
sweet!

--Ian

Ian, you may enjoy giving this a listen.  I did.  He talkes about it at some point in there.  I grabbed the sendspace link for it, active last week.  enjoy!

[headroom]

New Firmware End november
TASCAM UPDATES DR-680 WITH MID-SIDE RECORDING FEATURES
DR-680 Version 1.20 Includes Mid-Side Monitoring and Decoding

Any rumours about more implemented? Display Meter -2db to 0 db or multi channel trimmable?

[Chuck]

New Firmware End november
TASCAM UPDATES DR-680 WITH MID-SIDE RECORDING FEATURES
DR-680 Version 1.20 Includes Mid-Side Monitoring and Decoding

Any rumours about more implemented? Display Meter -2db to 0 db or multi channel trimmable?

Anybody that updates... can you check to see if it is still possible to run digital in on tracks 7&8 after the firmware update?
There is some talk over on GearSlutz that v 1.12 removes that option. I'm running 1.11 and I can still record from a UA-5 dig out to the DR-680. I do not want to lose that feature!

[headroom]

Upps thanks fo this hint, was close to try if i can record 7&8 SPDIF and analog with  Firmware installed 1.12
Think I would go nuts not knowing this issue...

[burris]

Anybody that updates... can you check to see if it is still possible to run digital in on tracks 7&8 after the firmware update?
There is some talk over on GearSlutz that v 1.12 removes that option. I'm running 1.11 and I can still record from a UA-5 dig out to the DR-680. I do not want to lose that feature!

The person reporting that has already recanted.  1.12 does not remove spdif > track 7/8 recording capability.  You have to change the monitor settings to see the levels from digi-in because they are reset every time you power it off.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/6014339-post171.html

[Chuck]

Ah, good.

[headroom]

It works with 1.12 but Mix has to be in MON not DIN, otherwhise I dont hear the Analog source 1-2 Happy now it seems to work with my Min ME 48/24 & 88.2/24 but in 96/24 not. Maybe my fault should put the 680 system also  to 96/24...

[Chuck]

It works with 1.12 but Mix has to be in MON not DIN, otherwhise I dont hear the Analog source 1-2 Happy now it seems to work with my Min ME 48/24 & 88.2/24 but in 96/24 not. Maybe my fault should put the 680 system also  to 96/24...

Do the meters on 7&8 (with firmware 1.12) still work for the DIN source if MON is selected?
That would be cool. Because I wouldn't have to go in and reset that parameter every time I turn the recorder on and off.

[headroom]

It works with 1.12 but Mix has to be in MON not DIN, otherwhise I dont hear the Analog source 1-2 Happy now it seems to work with my Min ME 48/24 & 88.2/24 but in 96/24 not. Maybe my fault should put the 680 system also  to 96/24...

Do the meters on 7&8 (with firmware 1.12) still work for the DIN source if MON is selected?
That would be cool. Because I wouldn't have to go in and reset that parameter every time I turn the recorder on and off.

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Yes thera are on SPDIF in ok for so far...

[Chuck]

Great. Thanks!

[manleyf]

Has anyone found the release notes for 1.12?

I've had a 2 weird shutdown issues- and am hoping they may have improved some stability issues in 1.12?

Honestly though, I wonder if maybe heat can be an issue?

At the 10-30-2010 Umphrey's show, mine shut down about 3/4 of the way through the night- at 1st I thought it was battery failure, but then I noticed I still had some juice left- 

I'm guessing either heat, or possibly the battery at the end of the night was not putting out enough juice to keep the DR-680 happy?

Anyone else experienced shut downs after it running for several hours? (this was about 3.5 hour into the evening?)

thanks,
Manley

[burris]

At the 10-30-2010 Umphrey's show, mine shut down about 3/4 of the way through the night- at 1st I thought it was battery failure, but then I noticed I still had some juice left- 

I'm guessing either heat, or possibly the battery at the end of the night was not putting out enough juice to keep the DR-680 happy?

According to the release notes for 1.10:

• The battery monitoring method has been changed. Now, if the level momentarily goes below that which could cause misoperation (for example, when the level could cause power to analog circuits to fail), the unit now immediately executes shutdown procedures.

[ArchivalAudio]

Healy used to have weather monitoring gear up above the stage to monitor and adjust for temp and other atmosphereic conditions (humidity, pressure, wind speed, etc).. the data was digitally linked to the soundboard and recorded to a computer along with lots of other information for tweakage and post-tour analysis back in the 80's.

Damn... I knew Dan Healy was doing some magick voodoo but that's pretty cool and weird  to dial in the delay!
sweet!

--Ian

Ian, you may enjoy giving this a listen.  I did.  He talkes about it at some point in there.  I grabbed the sendspace link for it, active last week.  enjoy!

hey thanx
I almost grabbed this at Lossless Legs when it was first upped - but didn't- now I am
thanx
I'll check it out
--Ian

[burris]

I noticed that the speaker is powered up whenever the unit is on and there are no headphones inserted.  The manual says the output is half a Watt.  Who knows how much actual power is consumed when it is sitting there spitting out hiss.  An empty 1/8" adapter in the headphone socket will turn it off and hopefully reduce the power consumption.

[Chadfish]

• The battery monitoring method has been changed. Now, if the level momentarily goes below that which could cause misoperation (for example, when the level could cause power to analog circuits to fail), the unit now immediately executes shutdown procedures.

So what happened before the firmware update?