threeornothing Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Bit of a long shot, but I am after an Alesis ADAT machine, pref the later XT20 model.....but would take a blackface aswell if the hours aren't too high. if anyone has one they simply don't use anymore and would like a token amount for it (100 bucks or so) let me know....Cheapskates'r'us.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundian Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Erm, why? ADATs suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musiccube Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Erm' date=' why? ADATs suck.[/quote']i dont have a ADAT kicking about but my mate has 4 of them in his studio and i am sure he does not use them as much as he did i will ask him if any r for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Cool! I don't have much money although my missus might help out with cash as its my birthday soon. But as Ian has said, ADAT's suck , so everyone should be looking at getting rid of them for cheap!! (thats my theory anyway!)I don't know whether they suck or not, I just need a reliable multitracker which I can chuck in the back of a car and fire up and record without arsing about with dodgy soundcards, latency, setting up project folders, defragmenting disks, blah blah.....PC's are not productive and logistically a nightmare when you just want a quick recording which you can take home and transfer to PC there, then waste your time arsing about with the above!! I was considering a Tascam 38 but the adat wins for portability.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundian Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 I don't know whether they suck or not' date=' I just need a [b']reliable multitracker ....That's the problem with ADATs, they're not reliable. All the studios I know that have used them had to buy an extra one, because at any given time there's always one away getting repaired. A hard disk recorder would be your best bet for portability coupled with reliability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musiccube Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 well i have used ADATS over the years and now i use a laptop with a firewire sound card for it and i have no latancy . best thing i done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 I'm just a retro freak....the Adats always looked so cool when I was a young kid reading Making Music (remember that freebie?) I had a fostex x15 which was a piece of fucking shit, but a start on my upgrade from chained tape decks...I just wanna play with an ADAT they look cool....it costs pennies for a ADAT PCI card these days so moving to cubase is easy....and the less fucking about with a mouse and more twiddling of knobs I can do (ooh err) the better I might even stretch to 150....ones on ebay aren't going for much more than that...but nobodies shipping them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musiccube Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 he is not selling them i asked him today sorry mate hope u find 1 so u can be all retro again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted October 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 hehe cheers for asking! got my eye on one on ebay just now....hey, a 15 year old ADAT machine will probably be the newest thing I own next to my amp... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted October 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 No longer looking as I've just picked one up for 110! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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