ADAT head cleaning
Scott Dorsey wrote:
darrelld wrote:
Phil, when I get to my studio PC, I will post the link to the
cleaning instructions and other ADAT error code info.
It's all in the service manual which is available for download.
Anything not in the service manual is probably on Eddie Ciletti's
site. But honestly this machine probably just needs an annual
service to be done.
Considering how horrible they are mechanically, they actually keep
working pretty well, and although the D/A converters are pretty bad,
the original A/D conversion wasn't as awful so pulling lightpipe data
out of them can actually get surprising sound quality.
That's what Rick Rubin used on the first album he recorded of Johnny
Cash, the one released in 1994. That was probably the most portable
solution he had and one of the constraints of that recording was
that it sort of had to be done at Cash's place.
Those sound fine to my ear. I'm not aware of any Lightpipe external
gear available then. Perhaps he could have run the digital off to a
hard disk machine - the track count was very low.
I took the DTRS route instead and I'm still using DTRS machines on a
few gigs a year. --scott
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Les Cargill
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