Just a fun project thrown together on my ADAT

It's exactly what it says. I had a little spare time and recorded this audio in my "formal dining room" with whatever happened to be handy:
Lead guitar was recorded first on track 6 with metronome on 8.
Rhythm was next on #7
Drums followed, 1-4
Organ on Track 5.
The audio at the beginning is camera audio, then it fades into a rough mix using nothing but that cheap Carvin mixer sitting on top of it. No real plan, no goal, just play.

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Music

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• ADAT
• Alesis
• Carvin
• GCM
• Baldassarre
• guitar
• Epiphone
• SG
• Vox
• AC15
• Hammond
• M3
• living room
• fun
• project
• mixing
• mixer
• recording
• Cascade
• Victor
• AKG
• Shure
• Avenson

[Qland22]

I have an ADAT staring me right in the face right now and i have absolutely no idea what to do with it.

[wado1942]

@Qland22 You record with it!

Mine hasn't gotten much use either. It's come in handy for a couple of times, but its main value is dumping tapes to WAV files for people.

[jnlantes2000]

question? can you use pro tools with this?

[wado1942]

@jnlantes2000 You can, but ideally, you don't need it. The beauty is that you can use a REAL console and punch in corrections etc. without a computer, mixing with a mouse and using expensive proprietary hardware/plugins. However, there's Lightpipe in the back so you can beam the tracks to another ADAT or virtually any multitrack software you want, including PT. I don't use this machine much, but everything I record gets backed up to hard drive this way.

[poshi12]

hows this sound as apposed to a reel to reel?

[wado1942]

@poshi12 There's no real comparison as open-reel machines and tape vary greatly in quality. The frequency response of ADAT is about 10Hz-20KHz and drops like a rock above that. My AMPEX is more like 25Hz-26KHz but it's a smooth slope that continues beyond that. Noise and distortion are lower on ADAT but there's inter-modulation and alias distortion due to the digital sampling. Subjectively, the ADAT is cold and brittle. GOOD open-reel is smooth & ambient.

[wado1942]

@poshi12 SVHS, technically. Alesis, in the early 90s, came out with machine that could record forty minutes of eight digital audio tracks on SVHS tapes. Look up "Alesis Digital Audio Tape" on the net and you'll find a wealth of information. They pretty much revolutionized the home studio market because they were fairly cheap and you could link a bunch together for more tracks.

[poshi12]

wait.....Your recording on a VHS? explain please..Please?

[wado1942]

@gwugluud I used a Xenyx to route echoes & such until recently. Just because it works, doesn't mean it has sufficient sound quality or features. I had a Mackie 4-buss in the years I recorded to my TEAC 80-8, but always hated the EQ. I quickly realized that it wasn't going to cut it feature-wise or quality-wise even before I got my 16-track. I rarely use sub-groups, except when mixing for surround, but having higher headroom, more AUXs, better routing etc is important.

Good luck!

[gwugluud]

(con't)..You'll cringe, but I'll use it to route signals, usually drums, into the Mackie...I've had it for 7-8 years now and it fires up fine, and it's very clean. Maybe I lucked out? heh heh! Hmm, the Behringer has subgroups; the a&h doesn't.  I'd like that feature. ...I enjoy talking gear, sorry...xD....Thx, man!