[sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[James Patchell]

Well, I am using Cakewalk ProAudio 9 with my Layla.  I am pretty satisfied 
with that setup.  A stripped down version of CoolEdit Pro came with the 
Layla when I purchased it and I use that for some recording jobs as 
well.  Cool Edit is now sold by Adobe under some other name...not too sure 
what they might have done to it.  ProAudio 9 has morphed into Sonar.

As far as price goes...well, I suppose that is all a point of 
perspective.  My Teac 40-4 cost me $1800 back in 1978.  The Layla and 
ProAudio 9 cost me about $1300 about 6 years ago I think it was....take 
into account inflation, the digital setup cost about 1/5 of the 40-4 and it 
does a heck of a lot more....And, if I am not mistaken, seems like the new 
Layla is even less expensive than the old one....

At 12:48 AM 12/26/2004 +0100, JH. wrote:
> > Some may argue that the 'natural' compression of tape media sounds so much
> > better,
>
>When I record directly to 2-track DAT, I don't miss anything. Probably
>because there's
>a lot of nonlinear and compressing stuff in my signal path anyway. So I have
>no doubt
>about quality.
>
>My doubts are about cost - 500 EUR for Hardware (?) - , and how much for
>software?
>and about the the overall handling / ease of use.
>
>And, which hardware and software would you recommend?
>
>JH.

         -Jim
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