[Scott Dorsey]

Phil Allison wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

It's putting NRZI data down on the tape directly with the flying head. It's
all running faster in order to get a higher channel bandwidth than you would
need with a conventional video system.

** That means the bit rate on the tape ( at 48K and 16 bit) is gonna be over 6MHz, not allowing for some redundancy for error correction.

Yep!

There used to be all kinds of cool
stuff FAQ for the ADAT mailing list if it even still exists. They were truly
horrible machines.

** Google tells me Alesis sold over 100,000 of them.

That's a heck of a lot of small studios and location recording.

It is, and for a while every studio in the country had a couple of them.
Small studios used them exclusively, bigger studios kept their analogue
machines and even advertised that they didn't do digital, but they got
a couple in the back room to do transfers because it was just such a
ubiquitous format.

It didn't last so long, but it was everywhere for a while. It's part of
what gave digital recording a bad name back then.
--scott
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