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[James Perrett]

I started when tape was on its way out and it was adat unless you were in a "fancy" studio.

ADAT's are painfully slow if you are using more than one machine - they can take ages to sync up. While I had a couple of them when I was running a commercial studio, much of our work remained on analogue tape.

[JRC1]

I started when tape was on its way out and it was adat unless you were in a "fancy" studio.

ADAT's are painfully slow if you are using more than one machine - they can take ages to sync up. While I had a couple of them when I was running a commercial studio, much of our work remained on analogue tape.

I remember that pain and then walking in to a studio that had a 16 channel fostex machine and being amazed at how much quicker we were working.

[MOF]

ADAT's are painfully slow if you are using more than one machine - they can take ages to sync up. While I had a couple of them when I was running a commercial studio, much of our work remained on analogue tape.

I remember that pain and then walking in to a studio that had a 16 channel fostex machine and being amazed at how much quicker we were working.

If I'd been in that position, I think I would have done a 'Sgt Pepper' and bounced 8 tracks to one on a new tape and carried on that way until mix down.