Sony DASH PCM-3402 digital reel to reel

This was the last two track digital reel to reel to be produced by Sony, the recorders production life spanned from 1991 to 1997. The machine was designed to behave much like an analogue reel to reel when editing, DAT machines could not have splice marks in the tape, these machines had 8 digital tracks recording a digital signal, 4 tracks could be out and the recorder would still payback perfectly, I have seen all the 8 track lights flashing and there has been no difference in the output sound. The recorder overcomes two big flaws of analogue machines, wow and flutter and signal to noise.

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• DASH
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[Stallion0157]

Beautiful machine, what happened to Sony? Why do they only produce painful to use junk these days?



[Seblington]

Computer editing is so much easier to do, the tape recorders were only easy to use if you were brought up on splicing tapes, from what I have been told, the 2 track digital machines were made in very small numbers, the other DASH I have K8113 a sales prototype (SN 00002) was thought to have been only 50 made for demonstrations to the world what Sony have made.

[coatlecue]

very nice very nice indeed. well narrated. wasnt long enough though

[Seblington]

Thank you, currently I now own a K8113 machine which is the earlier version of this, I will make a longer video of that once I have finished moving.

[chammani]

Ever green cute looking machine ..... Good presentation welldone

[MuzikJunkyAES]

The best-sounding digital audio recordings were made with machines such as these. Peace.

[gery315]

Dear Santa!

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[chichuf]

cool machine . analog & digital, profesional quality, but , one question sir , actually records company and music artists use this format for produce music ? or DAT format Kills reel to reel? ( sorry for my english) thanks for your answer.