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Gregory Allen Gregory Allen is offline
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Default Recording Bit and Sample Rates

On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 12:37:41 PM UTC, wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:37:17 UTC+2, Here in Oregon wrote:
Would anybody be brave enough to reveal what sample rate you are
recording with?

I'm just real curious what MOST people in this newsgroup are using with
all of these converters coming out coupled with the power of the new
computers and speed of the new hard drives.

24/44, 24/48, 24/96 16/22



James Roberts
12:35 (1 minute ago)
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I *was* intrigued by 3.75/8 track. Never seen that format - apart from 8 track cartridge that is Or were you referring to 8 track on cassette? Some of those had used to use double speed, hadn't they? (Had to do something to get some s/n ratio!) I did have 4 track Portastudios, some of which had double speed recording...
My old commercial 8-track demo studio back when such things were viable used 8 track 1" 15/30ips and was really very good sounding... for the epoch, anyway. I've been trying to find someone with an 8 track 1" deck to transcribe some rare material off to DAW :-)


You're right, it's a Tascam 238 and it takes standard type two cassettes. Tascam used to have a similar tape mechanism in a couple of their later portastudios, but they could only track 4 channels at once, whereas this can take all 8. I think all their standard 4 track portastudios use double speed as standard. It doesn't sound good by todays standards, or the standards of the time to be fair. It takes a hell of a lot less space than a standard reel to reel though, and space is a problem at the moment. In a perfect world I'd be working on 16 track 2" but unfortunately I've just got a regular 1/4" twin track... somewhere