TASCAM DAP1: stop/start ABS-TC writing?

[JoVee]

Is there some forgotten setting on this machine that is causing it to NOT
write good abs tc unless the whole tape is done continuously start-to-finish
and never recorded on again?

[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
JoVee > wrote:
>Is there some forgotten setting on this machine that is causing it to NOT
>write good abs tc unless the whole tape is done continuously start-to-finish
>and never recorded on again?

You tried rewinding to the beginning every time you put the tape into the
machine? Some machines will not record A-time unless you bring it all
the way to the start.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[JoVee]

in article , Scott Dorsey at
wrote on 8/12/04 10:23 PM:

> In article >,
> JoVee > wrote:
>> Is there some forgotten setting on this machine that is causing it to NOT
>> write good abs tc unless the whole tape is done continuously start-to-finish
>> and never recorded on again?
>
> You tried rewinding to the beginning every time you put the tape into the
> machine?

even that don;t work sometimes...


>Some machines will not record A-time unless you bring it all
> the way to the start.

all my SONY's will take TC from where it is (give it a second or so of
overlap) and jam to it and write from there on seamlessly.

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> Is there some forgotten setting on this machine that is causing it to NOT
> write good abs tc unless the whole tape is done continuously start-to-finish
> and never recorded on again?

No secret setting, but it (as well as many DATs) won't write time code
unless they know they're starting from the beginning of the tape.

Hit the Rewind button after loading the tape to make sure it's really
at the head. Then it should write absolute time code (because it knows
for sure that it's really absolute - from the beginning).

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[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> Is there some forgotten setting on this machine that is causing it to NOT
> write good abs tc unless the whole tape is done continuously start-to-finish
> and never recorded on again?

No secret setting, but it (as well as many DATs) won't write time code
unless they know they're starting from the beginning of the tape.

Hit the Rewind button after loading the tape to make sure it's really
at the head. Then it should write absolute time code (because it knows
for sure that it's really absolute - from the beginning).

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me here: double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

[Jerry Steiger]

"JoVee" > wrote in message
...
> Is there some forgotten setting on this machine that is causing it to NOT
> write good abs tc unless the whole tape is done continuously
start-to-finish
> and never recorded on again?


The only way to get absolute time started is to begin at the very top of the
tape. But after that I've never had any trouble adding on with absolute
time, so long as the new recording starts before the end of the original
recording. (No gaps in the time.)

Jerry Steiger