Tascam DA-302 (DAT-Doppel-Cassettendeck) specifications

Brand : Tascam

General :

Tech nical Specifications:

The DA-302 from TASC AM is a professional machine in 19-inch format.

This double dat recorder can record analog with 32 kHz (longplay), 44.1 and 48 kHz. This recorder records digitally according to the digital input signal.

2 or more Tascam DA-302 units can be operated as Master-Slave(-Slave-Slave and so on and so forth) units. When recording, deck 1 starts - after a pre-determined second time, deck 2 then continues. Then comes the turn of the 1st slave (and so on and so forth). With the menu entry "Loop" you can achieve that after the last slave is started again with the master - the cassettes should be changed in good time beforehand. This dat recorder also works perfectly with 2.5 and 3 hour Dat tapes - only the displayed times have to be converted accordingly (they are "somehow" not quite right...). When using, for example, 2 dat recorders of the "Da-302" type - each equipped with 2, for example, 2.5 hours of Dat tapes, you can record 10 hours at a time - in the meantime, you can sleep for your 6 - 9 hours... A seqtime > 2.5 hours is not possible. Playback is also possible accordingly.

As a professional device, this dat recorder has the option of changing the COPY ID. There are the following 3 possibilities (Hi-fi dat or CD recorders do not have this possibility):

1gen (factory input): all Hi-Fi dat and CD recorders have this function. It is allowed to record from CD to Dat digitally. However, further digital copies are no longer possible. I can record digitally from an analog source and then copy 1* digitally. I can no longer make any more digital copies of the digital copy.

Proh: (like "prohibited"): even if I record analog - no more digital copy is possible.

Free: when I had set up this dat recorder, I immediately searched for this function (and changed the whole thing from the factory setting "1gen" to "Free" once within 5 minutes...). There are no more digital generation limits. Since you can easily "copy" from deck 1 to deck 2, I can easily replace the source dat tape again and again with this setting - and with Deck 2 I only record what I want to record. The advantage of a computer would be that I can determine the exact beginning and the end of a piece of music with Wavelab, for example, and can cut out superfluous things...

This dat recorder also displays the respective error rate of the tapeon deck 1 and 2 on request. Of course, the head drum operating time from start of use will also be displayed on request (of course both on deck 1 and on deck 2). This can be used for maintenance (as with a car...). However, I have not found any information on how many hours you should have your dat recorder serviced...

Note: There were also CD players with a CD recorder in one device - both as a HiFi and as a professional version (see Copy-ID). However, the last development was CD recorders with an integrated hard drive. Maybe at some point there will be e.g. from Tascam (?) a suitable dat recorder with an integrated hard disk. However: at the cost per hour for a 2-hour dat tape (in relation to the hard drive), this is unlikely to be the case anymore...

Disadvantages of Dat recorders / Dat tapes:
- Dat tape recordings have become blatantly too expensive in comparison to the hard disk.
- Belts are generally exposed to mechanical stress. They just get a little worse and worse after each use... Ribbon salad is always possible.
- Mechanical stress on the drive is - as with the VCR (now extinct?) extremely high.
- A computer with a reasonable sound card - e.g. Terratec 2496 (24 bit, 96 kHz) is ideally suited for "trimming" the music. When the PC is still very quiet... Apart from the fact that the PC consumes over 200 watts...

Dat-band recordings have become blatantly too expensive in comparison to the hard disk.
Belts are generally exposed to mechanical stress. They just get a little worse and worse after each use... Ribbon salad is always possible.
Mechanical stress on the drive is - as with the VCR (now extinct?) extremely high.
A computer with a reasonable sound card - e.g. Terratec 2496 (24 bit, 96 kHz) is ideally suited for "trimming" the music. When the PC is still very quiet... Apart from the fact that the PC consumes over 200 watts...