studiomprd Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 " I always revered the Sound from '24' as outstanding " A lot of us did... "24" was frequently nominated for and winning the sound mixing awards. " relied more on the boom sound than lavs." a lot of us did, too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whit Norris Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Several years ago when I was driving through Nashville and stopped at Trew Audio, the service shop was using a Fostex PD 2 as a door stop. That was very funny. Whit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 The Fostex PD-2 was the literal representation of equipment becoming a "door stop". We often use the phrase but seldom re-purpose the gear to actually do something useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfatjames Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 My HHB PDR100TC somehow does not hold the power even with external ac after about 5 mins it will shut down... i am wondering if i should get it fixed... My first gear that my mum help to pay for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Duffy Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Apologies for the sales pitch, but: There are basically no more rotary heads available for repairing DAT units, and parts to fix other borkeness usually comes from other donor machines. If you're worried about whether to keep holding onto an old DAT unit just in case someone brings you a tape to get some audio off, TASCAM has recently started a DAT and DTRS to Broadcast wave file conversion service. Details on our website. Tom TASCAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted May 28, 2012 Report Share Posted May 28, 2012 Wow, that is helpful. I've actually been keeping around an old Sony PCM-7040 "just in case." Maybe I should give up and just sell it for peanuts on eBay (like anybody is buying old DAT machines these days). Playing back old DAT tapes is really a lot of grief. I had to do that for a post client some years back -- more than 500 hours' worth of material -- and sometimes we'd go through 6 or 7 different machines to find one that was reasonably stable and dropout-free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsmyles Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 On behalf of the "senior" folk here, we would prefer "more experienced" or "legendary"..............yeah "legendary" is good. Eric Thank you, Eric. "Damn hooligans!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirror Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 HAHA! I have the LAST working DAT machine in the WORLD!!! I WILL MAKE MILLIONS WHEN ALL YOUR PUNY COMPUTERS BECOME INFECTED WITH VIRUSES!!! ...Now to find what door I left it at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 HAHA! I have the LAST working DAT machine in the WORLD!!! I WILL MAKE MILLIONS WHEN ALL YOUR PUNY COMPUTERS BECOME INFECTED WITH VIRUSES!!! ...Now to find what door I left it at. Not quite the last. I have an 18yo HHb TC Portadat that still works like dream. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Collins Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Coincidently I found a HHB battery today, long lost in the bottom of a case. The HHB is long gone, the batteries inside are probably DOA anybody want it before I chuck it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Yes Eric ... But, do you still have the receipt? Ya know, for provenance? No, I don't but I bet the dealer does. Got it from Flecher Chicago in the late fall of 1994. About $6k I think. It has the HP matrix & a full function remote control. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Gilchrist Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Eric, I have one of your remotes that I set up to control 2 HHB recorders. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Eric, I have one of your remotes that I set up to control 2 HHB recorders. Jim I made one of those 2 machine remotes for Mark Ulano but I can't recall if it was for the HHb Portadat or the Fostex PD4. Those remotes are my pride & joy. They never fail to work. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Those remotes have a lifetime guarantee I believe... not your lifetime, Eric's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Those remotes have a lifetime guarantee I believe... not your lifetime, Eric's! Man speaks the truth. Fortunately DAT is as the thread title says "Dead". With almost 1,000 HHb & Fostex remotes sold I'd never live long enough to fix them all........OTOH maybe I will hang around just for the fun of annoying people. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Rose Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Well, I still have Otari and Fostex timecode DATs in my rack, just waiting for one of you guys to send me production sound for it. : ) ...And a timecode DTRS, in case you want to record isos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Babb Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 I took a PD4 with me on a SD552 job recently so I could set the TC on my SB3. Fortunately my boom op had an iPhone with the Denecke app so the PD4 stayed on the truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Interesting, the use of the Fostex doorstop (PD-4) as a timecode generator --- that's a pretty big package to lug around just to have timecode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Babb Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Big TC is better than no TC. Maybe one of you electronics gurus can dig the TC generator out of a PD4 and put it in a new interface. A little repurposing of the doorstops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundperson Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 I too still got my HHB TC 1000 Eric, I got from Jose Gonzales at Location Sound 1995 together with a PSC Intellislate. Had it upgraded from HHB UK to its latest specs at that time. It works fine but the built-in speaker's level is very low on playback, even though the volume control is set at max. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jozzafunk Posted August 18, 2012 Report Share Posted August 18, 2012 I bought a 7" reel to reel the other day........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundmanjohn Posted February 17, 2013 Report Share Posted February 17, 2013 I was lucky enough to tour the sound archive studios at The British Library last Friday and they have closets full of DAT machines, cassette machines, Beta & VHS machines for those early Sony PCM transfers, laser-disc and mini-disc players, vinyl disc players and assorted tape machines. They also have a really nice "pro" Edison cylinder reader that uses the tracking arm from an old Revox linear turntable along with a variable speed cylinder carrier. For tape and DAT archiving, they have special software that allows four items to be digitized simultaneously, with logging for any detectable errors. There are boat-loads of Studer and Revox tape machines for the pro reel-to-reel stuff, as well. They maintain a stock of older rotary-head machines purchased from various places, including ebay, for the specific purpose of repairing the main transfer machines, which is a rolling process. When I visited, they were part-way through archiving 6,000 VHS tapes that had been used for off-air logging of BBC classical music programmes. I still have reel-to-reel, cassette, MiniDisc and DAT machines and I'm currently archiving some old MD stuff that I found in the back of a drawer, gathering dust. A lot of dross, but some surprisingly good sounds that will go into the library and be useful in the future. As always, I find that I can re-create the location and circumstances of most of the recordings much more vividly by listening back to them, rather than looking at photographs. Regards, John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I still have a Fostex D10 that still works about as well as it ever did. But it IS time to get anything I want off my DATs-- I was kind of amazed the D10 still worked well a few months ago. When a client showed up with a DA88 DTRS tape to record to files I sent it to Tascam to transfer--I didn't trust my DA78 . So I guess I can stop 2 doors. philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisnewton Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I just copied a bunch of stuff from DAT, mostly personal archives, to my 744T and then to a backup harddrive. I was expecting the worst, but my HHB Portadat (and my ancient DA-P1 Tascam ) both worked flawlessly. I haven't touched either machine for at least 5 years, but they have been carefully stored. One of the tapes I copied was from 1997, the other from 2000. No problems at all. I'm keeping the data on a CF card also, for archival purposes. Over the years I had one or two problems (tape related) with the Tascam, but zero problems with the HHB. Certainly don't miss using them though. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmassey Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I think you are right on the price of the PortaDat Eric! I paid $6K for mine, did the HP matrix update, used it about two years, and then sold it to a filmmaker in Philadelphia for $6K! Now that Sony MD walkman I still have on the shelf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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