Topic: Tascam DV-RA1000 DVD Recorder Surprise

[John R]

good luck Moke!!!!!

you're next counselor

[macdaddy]

stunning!

More to report tomorrow, after some speaker playback, but thru the headphones,...... stunning!

4060's j-disc mini baffle, on stage dfc 3' from centered setar, 5' from r&l hand-drummers -> mma6000 -> V3, analog out -> dsd

wonderful performance, and from the bit that i heard, that dsd recorder is the real deal...

here are a few pics i snapped - if you look carefully, you will see m0k3's j-disc mini baffle rig...

[dmonterisi]

so what happened with the media formatting issues?

[macdaddy]

nice!

did you figure out how to dither down and burn redbook cd's yet..?

[macdaddy]

so the only option, if you want to burn copies of your recordings with that thing, is to go out via the r/l analog RCAs' and then into a DAT, cassette deck or stand alone burner..? that kind of blows, although, you say the analog output is something special, so maybe sending that to a dat wouldnt be the end of the world, just a pain in the a$$...

does that thing read/write dual-layer discs, or do you have to stick to the 4gig discs..?

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

I tried very briefly yesterday, and patched out of the coaxial out, but got no signal downstream. Then Sarge started into barking commands, and I abandoned the effort.
answer, nothing yet. I don't think its possible from dsd.
see attached manual page that covers dithering.

DONE!

Page 15, my brain hurts, and I'm wiping the drool off my chin. Great posts, I love this place, now I need to scrape up some cash for one of these. I was talking to Doug about the unit today while placing an order for other toys, DAMNIT, now I need to come up with another 1000+.  

+t's for all of you, tons of great information and feedback!  

[macdaddy]

so i hope you are practicing with rewriteable discs, rather than making a stack of coasters as you figure it all out

the unit has no harddrive, correct..? so thre is no way it can burn cd's on the fly, it really just burns discs that can be read by that type of machine, or possibly, as data on a computer drive..?

i should have snapped a pic of that thing in action on saturday - next time, for sure

[macdaddy]

As long as its handled properly in the transition from analog back to digital, it'll sound fantastic.

how are you proposing to do that..?

[macdaddy]

gotcha...

you can put me down for one of those Tas.700 copies

so how do you back up your recordings? is there a way to copy the dsd disc(s) you recorded, an exact clone-type copy, so that you have a backup..? that is kind of a must for all recordists(sic), right..? what about burning the info you recorded somewhere, but putting it on a properly formatted disc..?

[macdaddy]

I'm hoping for a portable tas. dsd unit with sdif-3 outputs.

me, too - one that is the size of the pda/sbm1 combo...

does that thing have analog ins..? or do you have to use an adc infront of it> would it sound like a$$ to have the mic analog go in and let the unit up it to dsd on the spot..?

[macdaddy]

what kind of quality do you think the gain mode will have..? do you think you are better off going with an external pre and/or adc..?

[Tim]

I wish that I'd gotten about one foot away from the setar, as the drums are loud at times. geeting self critical here, and thinking out loud.

I'm doing the same thing with my tape from last night

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

I wish that I'd gotten about one foot away from the setar, as the drums are loud at times. geeting self critical here, and thinking out loud.

I'm doing the same thing with my tape from last night

Which 406x mics did you end up picking up? I was just curious how they were working out for you. 

[Tim]

the 4061's and the dpa preamp the mma6000... finally used them for the 1st time yesterday, I stealthed a bassoon quartet in the afternoon and then did a band last night... check the jdisc thread in the mic section

[VA_TAPER]

just some points, I got the unit on Sat. The DSD discs can be copied and are playable on the unit if a pc copies them as an image....or a direct clone of this disc.  This will allow us to host the image files online for the future.  While the cost of DSD->PCM decimation now is $3000 I'm guessing that just like DVD-A burning it'll be in the $200 range within a year, so if we start uploading the DSD files to archive.org for trade-approved bands we can have those files online for the future.  

Interesting point two:  The dvd drive in the unit is a standard IDE drive with an ATA ribbon cable and a standard PC power supply cable, I'm going to try and format a 20gig hard drive in the unit and see if I can get many hours recording capability.

more to follow,
peace, chris